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When A Check-Up Is Not A Check-Up - Part 2
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 In
our last edition, we talked about the problems some people encounter
when they have a check-up that is not covered by their insurance. This
week we discuss some of the reasons why check-ups are not considered |
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When Was The Last Time You Looked At Your Health Insurance Options?
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| We got quite a few responses to our recent article about COBRA options. After several of the conversations, we sent out a piece we did that discussed some of the new insurance premiums that are out there. One of the people we talked with said, "You ought to put this in the newsletter." Made sense to us, so here it is. |
One of our clients has a son in the Army and he sends out updates on
his son's deployment on occasion. I really enjoy getting them. His son
is currently stationed in Iraq, but is going to be home in time for
Christmas! As the dad puts it, "They have worked  themselves out of a
job... and they have all performed magnificently."
I asked for
permission to post the letter from his son so you could hear first hand
from someone who is on the front lines. We have included some pictures at the end of Carl's
letter (including one with some of the kids wearing the Richmond soccer
jerseys they passed out!). Read more
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Overheard...The Forgotten Man
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 "About a half century before the Depression, a Yale philosopher named William Graham Sumner penned a lecture against the progressives of his own day and in defense of classical liberalism. The lecture eventually became an essay, entitled "The Forgotten Man." Applying his own elegant algebra of politics, Sumner warned that well-intentioned social progressives often coerced unwitting average citizens into funding dubious social projects. Sumner wrote:
'As soon as A observes something which seems to him to be wrong, from which X is suffering, A talks it over with B, and A and B then propose to get a law passed to remedy the evil and help X. Their law always proposes to determine...what A, B, and C shall do for X. But what about C? There was nothing wrong with A and B helping X. What was wrong was the law, and the indenturing of C to the cause. C was the forgotten man, the man who paid, "the man who is never thought of.'"
from Amity Shlaes, the forgotten man
New York: HarperCollins, 2007.
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I Wish I Had Said That... |
"The
Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have
been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of
thanksgiving."
H.U. Westermayer "I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
Charles Dickens
"Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to."
Bill Vaughn
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