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Yes, I’m still here. I still have more to say about the whole health care reform thing. However, I also renewed my focus on finishing the writing/editing of a big project– ETU: Degrees of Horror. I have very little time for writing these days, so I have to make tough decisions about how I use [...]

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 [...]

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!

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 [...]

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 [...]