Elderly and disabled cash gifting residents of two bedbug-infested Des Moines apartment buildings gave polite applause to the head of the buildings' management company Friday as he promised to make things right.
"Seeing is believing, and I haven't seen anything yet," said Sam Bell, a two-year resident of Elsie Mason Manor who spent 18 months fighting a bedbug problem in his apartment. "The first time I'd seen bedbugs was when I came here."
Gov. Chet Culver's order for Michael Lewis big short by an outside review of a proposed Wellmark health insurance premium increase is politically risky and unlikely to reduce the increase by much, political and insurance experts say.
An industry specialist also raises questions about how independent the review will be