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Health Costs on the way down?
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Health care costs are expected to increase on average 10.6% in the
next 12 months, according to Aon Consulting -- the lowest increase
since the study began in 2001.
Unlike several other health care
cost studies, Aon reports the expected future increase in claims cost
before any plan changes. Read more. |
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Presidential candidates' plans for health care reform
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 Aetna recently posted a review of the plans for health care reform that
are being promoted by Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain. If
you wish to view this article, click here.
At the end of the article are links directly to the candidates' web page which addresses their stance. You can link directly to them here:
John McCain's website
Barack Obama website
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 "As Americans debated expanding government involvement in health care,
Britain's National Health Service told Olive Beal she would have to
wait eighteen months to get a hearing aid.
She is 108."
from George F. Will's book, One Man's America. New York: Crown Forum, 2008.
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The Lighter Side - Those Fearless Reporters
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 It's hurricane season, and that means wall-to-wall coverage by those fearless weather reporters.
"Is it really a hurricane, or even just a "tropical depression," unless
a TV reporter in a hooded windbreaker is flopping around in the wind
and rain like a landed flounder?
Is it really a weather story at all unless the TV people can go
outside in the storm and, while risking bodily injury, warn viewers
that they shouldn't go outside in the storm and risk bodily injury...
Read the rest of the article.
There is also this tongue-in-cheek video report of the reporters by CNN (after you get past the short video commercial). |
