America's two-tier health system is alive and well...  Despite the credit crunch, M&A deals for for-profit hospitals are being racked up... Estimates are that healthcare to constitute +20% of U.S. GDP in 2012... an estimate that has private equity firms salivating.... Meanwhile, S.Central L.A. continues to report Third World health stats entering their second decade..  one Bronx neighborhood reveals one in ten women receive inadequate prenatal care.... Winners and losers. 

The bashful billionaire, Warren Buffett, in the news, again.... Now, Coca Cola maven Buffett placed on the top of the list of the world's richest with net worth: $62 billion.  Go Warren, Go!

All in the family...  WalMart chair Rob Walton, son of Sam, annoints his son-in-law to company inner circle...  Gregory Penner, 38, reports to work tomorrow... Penner and his wife, Rob's daughter Carrie, are into charter schools... someone needs to tell them that those schools undercut unions....

Eliot Spitzer, deposed, sock-addicted, testosterone-laced ex-Gov of NY, is now working in the family real estate biz... An industry insider, reports NY Observer, that "No one in the real estate world will give a shit about the prostitutes."  What landlords have to endure...