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Sunday, December 07, 2008
Auto Insurance Rates Zoom
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Opening the Sunday paper, my eye caught the following headline. Rates up for auto insurance Trend follows Georgia’s passage of law that lets...
Dr. P.C.
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Don't have a doc? Don't have time to see a doc? How about an online doc? Now you can make an appointment, talk to or correspond with...
Friday, December 05, 2008
Pay As You Go© Insurance?
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Let me state at the outset that I am not a fan of American Community Mutual Insurance Company (ACM). Some years ago, we parted ways over an...
Sad News
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Medical Mutual of Ohio (formerly Blue Cross of Ohio) doesn't get a lot of pixels here: they're not a large carrier, and haven't...
Niche Marketing or Terror Enabling?
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Recently, we reported on a unique niche marketing effort aimed at the gay demographic. And, of course, other such campaigns have targeted o...
Medicare (Dis)Advantage?
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Both IB reader Jeff M and the folks at the bwell blog have tipped us that the first MMA (Medicare Modernization Act) casualty may be Medica...
The Big Squeeze
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What happens when demand exceeds supply? Shortages. Now compound the problem by an artificially stimulated demand coupled with a decrease in...
Thursday, December 04, 2008
Socialized Health Care: Busted!
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Here at IB, we strive to keep our readers abreast of developments in nationalized health care systems. Recently, the boobs who run Sweden...
The Biggest Problem?
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OK, this is touch and go. No matter how I put this, I run the risk of sounding like the "white guy". But when I read an excerpt of...
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Insurance Insurance?
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[ Welcome Kaiser Network readers!] VERY COOL UPDATE : Don't know how I missed this, but if you scroll down the story , you'll see o...
CF Update: Good News
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" The student council at an Ottawa university has reversed its controversial decision to pull out of an annual fundraiser for the Canad...
Cavalcade of Risk #66: Double Whammy Edition online
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Perhaps best known for his On the Moneyed Midways features, " Ironman " presents two versions of this week's Cavalcade of Risk...
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
Food Pyramid Update: Space Cadet Version
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It's been a while since we last updated our (in)famous food pyramid, one important component of which is that wonderful concoction of s...
Wow, Just Wow: UHC Edition
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FoIB Rick Byrne tips us to this blockbuster: " Insurer UnitedHealth Group Inc. said Tuesday it expects enrollment in its commercial he...
Get Your Fix
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Seems these days everyone has a fix for what is wrong with health care. The most prominent proposal by politicians and health care pundits i...
A Deadly Serious Grand Rounds
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Based on a musical piece called "Death and Transfiguration," Mexico Medical Student presents this week's roundup of great me...
Monday, December 01, 2008
An Ounce of Prevention
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First a confession. I am the poster child for the National Couch Potato Society. Just ask my wife. I don't eat right, I rarely exercise....
Carnival of Personal Finance is up...
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John Wedding, proprietor of Mighty Bargain Hunter , hosts this week's collection of personal finance tips and info.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
On Terrorism, Risk and Mumbai
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[Welcome Hugh Hewitt readers!] A few years ago, I realized that although there are "carnivals" (hosted collections of blog posts ...
Friday, November 28, 2008
Cavalcade of Risk #66: Call for submissions
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" Ironman" of Political Calculations hosts next week's Cavalcade of Risk. Submissions are due this Monday (the 1rst), and he...
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