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Health Care Costs

July 31st, 2009

InĀ 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 [...]

Health Care: Interlude

July 29th, 2009

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!

Insurance Today

July 28th, 2009

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 [...]

Health Care Today

July 27th, 2009

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 [...]

RPG Awards

July 25th, 2009

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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About Flametoad

Flametoad is the personal website for Preston DuBose, a full-time e-commerce and credit card security professional for the higher-education market, a part-time RPG publisher, and a full-time husband and father.

I ignore conventional blogging wisdom and refuse to focus on a single topic. This website covers gaming, family life, marketing, security, literature, music, and just about anything else shiny that catches my eye.

Do you think I might be your long lost nephew, to whom you'd like to bequeath your vast financial empire? Find my e-mail address and read more of my bio on the About Flametoad page.

I get a small thrill every time someone bothers to respond to one of my posts. I get a big thrill when you post naked pictures of yourself. Well, not YOU.

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