July 2009
The Archives
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07.31.09Health Care Costs Miscellaneous Comments Off on Health Care Costs
In Flametoad’s continuing series on health care, today I’d like to take a closer look at some of the costs that affect what we (or insurance companies) pay for health-care. Before I we get into those costs though, I did want to mention something that I meant to bring up in my first post. Has anyone […]
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07.29.09Health Care: Interlude Miscellaneous Comments Off on Health Care: Interlude
Worked on ETU tonight instead of my series of posts on health care reform. However, I believe this news report article on medicare fraud is relevant to the discussion. Stay tuned!
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07.28.09Insurance Today Miscellaneous (1)
Today marks the second part in my series examining “health care reform”. If you couldn’t tell from the title, today’s post focuses on how insurance works. The best way to understand insurance is to think of it as institutionalized gambling. When you buy health insurance, you’re saying “I bet that I’m going to get sick […]
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07.27.09Health Care Today Miscellaneous Comments Off on Health Care Today
In the grand Flametoad tradition of eschewing any sort of predictable theme, today’s post marks the first in a weeklong series of essays on health care and health care reform in the US. What can I say? Sometimes you get Duke Nuk’em Disease, sometimes you get health care reform. For this series I’ll be drawing […]
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07.25.09RPG Awards 12 to Midnight, Games Comments Off on RPG Awards
The ENnie Awards are the fan awards for the roleplaying game industry, and the voting booth for the 2009 awards is now open. Why does this matter? Because for the second year in a row, 12 to Midnight’s cartography imprint Fabled Environments has earned a nomination on the short list. This is a well deserved […]
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