Its not some sort of secret, it has been disclosed by the Fed in their annual reports as required by law.

FORTUNE -- The bailout of the financial system is roughly as popular as Wall Street bonuses, the federal budget deficit, or LeBron James in a Cleveland sports bar. You hear over and over that the bailout was a disaster, it cost taxpayers a fortune, we didn't really need it, it didn't work, it was a failure. It has become politically toxic, which inhibits reasoned public discussion about it.

But you know what? The bailout, by the numbers, clearly did work. Not only did it forestall a worldwide financial meltdown, but a Fortune analysis shows that U.S. taxpayers are coming out ahead on it -- by at least $40 billion, and possibly by as much as $100 billion eventually. This is our count for the entire bailout, not just the 3% represented by the massively unpopular Troubled Asset Relief Program. Yes, that's right -- TARP is only about 3% of the bailout, even though it gets about 97% of the attention.

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/07/08/surprise-the-big-bad-bailout-is-paying-off/ Fortune Magazine Article

I think it has more to do with the poster being a bigot -- because Detroit has the highest muslim population in the US.

In fact they do not have to have that permission. There is a (truck wide) hole in the law that allows disclosure for treatment or business purposes. Both of your examples would fall under this exception.

As long as you have a business associate agreement there is no problem outsourcing medical information. Hospitals and clinics routinely outsource everything up to and in including electronic medical record systems.

If you look at the spec's, it claims "up to" an 8 hour battery life with airplane mode, which is drastically shorter than current eInk based technology (I routinely get 25-30 hours of reading out of a nook easily with airplane mode on).

It is also backlit, which contributes to insomnia for those who read late at night or in bed (see La Times).

I'd love to see a color, eInk based technology, but if I wanted a tablet instead of a ebook reader, I'd buy one. They both have their places, but LCD screens are not a substitute yet.

This is an expensive test with a fairly high side effect profile. On top of which, a positive result leaves the doctor and patient with no change in treatment options. Since Alzheimer's is an uncureable disease, early diagnosis doesn't accomplish anything. Neuro-Psychological tests (DRS-2) have very high accuracy in diagnosing the disease in late-early and moderate staged disease. The real question is... we have a positive (or negative) result, so how does this change our proposed treatment. The answer is it doesn't.

That being said, this is a significant advance for research purposes, which should allow for double blind studies without needing an autopsy.

Assets are only deductible to a charity at the lower of cost or FMV. The labor could not be considered a cost in the computation of the asset. Regardless, even if the labor was deductible, the person would have to claim above the line income on that labor (ie... I earned 5000 and then donated 5000 to charity). This will always result in a worse case than not deducting the labor or recognizing the income (there are some very small situations where this isn't the case, but not applicable to 99% of situations).

As long as Google will sign a business associate contract -- which they very well maybe willing to do -- then they can legally store information on gmail.

Besides, doctors have to provide copies of what happens when you visit a practice to the local hospital and/or insurer anyway. It's part of the great medical (verifiable) paper trail.

This is absolutely wrong -- your insurance company, yes (but usually only procedures and diagnosis, not allergy's, etc), but local hospital -- absolutely not.

2) In the hospital, when you're suffering from your emergency that'll kill you in 30 minutes, chances are they won't even have time to hunt down your electronic records either. In fact, in the highest likelihood, the hospital is going to call the insurer first.

That's a very cynical view -- one that isn't the case in any hospital of which I'm aware. Yes, they check your insurance, but in an emergency they are required to treat you regardless of insurance status -- and they do.

In some states you can't have a recourse loan against a primary residence by law -- CA being the biggest one.

That is only true in a very few states -- although to be fair it included some big ones (California).