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Zia H Shah

He is a physician practicing in Upstate New York. He is the Chief Editor of the Muslim Times, which has more than 43,000 followers in Twitter. He is also Chair of Religion and Science for the Muslim Sunrise, the oldest Muslim publication in North America. He has authored more than 400 articles on Islam, Christianity, Secularism and Religion & Science. Follow in Twitter: @The_MuslimTimes

How Employer-Sponsored Insurance Drives Up Health Costs

http://www.forbes.com/sites/aroy/2012/05/12/how-employer-sponsored-insurance-drives-up-health-costs/ In 1942, Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Economic Stabilization Act, which exempted health insurance from its mandated wage controls: the original sin of America’s flawed health-care system. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) A new study in Health Affairs is attracting attention for its depiction of how powerful hospitals are extracting “steep payment increases” from insurers. But what […]

Kansas lawmakers pass anti-Islamic law measure

Source: USA Today. TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – A bill designed to prevent Kansas courts or government agencies from making decisions based on Islamic or other foreign legal codes has cleared the state Legislature after a contentious debate about whether the measure upholds American values or appeals to prejudice against Muslims. […]

JPMorgan Sought Loophole on Risky Trading

WASHINGTON — Soon after lawmakers finished work on the nation’s new financial regulatory law, a team of JPMorgan Chase lobbyists descended on Washington. Their goal was to obtain special breaks that would allow banks to make big bets in their portfolios, including some of the types of trading that led […]

Indian Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh visits international headquarters of Ahmadiyya Muslim community at Qadian town.

Union Minister for Environment and Forests as well as Rural Development (India) Jairam Ramesh visits the International Headquarter of Ahmadiyya Muslims at Qadian in the Gurdaspur District of Indian Punjab. Source: The Times of India, Chandigarh. GURDASPUR: Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh on Friday announced a special package for […]