Bankruptcy and Medical Costs or, Why Not a Single-Payer Income ... - Reason Online
The co-author of the study told the press , "Only single-payer national health insurance can make universal, comprehensive coverage affordable by saving the hundreds of billions we now waste on insurance overhead and bureaucracy."
There's no question that a) it would be great to actually reform health care root and branch, including the delivery of services (break the MD cartel already!) and insurance; b) that it is inconceivable that the government will do a better job of minimizing bureaucracy and patient failure; and c) that's likely exactly how Congress and Barack Obama are going to go on this issue. The supposed containment of health care costs in Canada and the U.K. (where patients routinely do whatever they can to exit the public system) is due to rationing, not due to the streamlining of service provision. Just telling people no, you can't have that procedure is one definite way to keep costs down; it seems remarkably unwise, especially in an age of blossoming individualized services for consumers.
The Associated Press reports that "Driven to desperation, a growing number of financially strapped car owners are torching, sinking or ditching their vehicles and then reporting them stolen to cash in on the insurance." In Las Vegas, car insurance fraud cases are up more than threefold and other police departments are reporting smaller but still meaningful increases in the crime.
The Star-Ledger - NJ.comCar insurance rates for teens costly in New Jerseyby Carrie Stetler/The Star-Ledger New Jersey is the second most expensive state's in the nation to insure teen drivers, according to Insurance.com's Ratewatch report, released earlier this month. The average rate to insure Jersey teens -- $6200 -- is Keeping Teen Car Insurance Affordable
AFPBy John Voelcker June 4th, 2009 Friday is World Environment Day, and Mitsubishi used the occasion to unveil the final production version of its i-MiEV electric car, which goes on sale in Japan in about six weeks. The company expects to distribute about Productie elektrische Mitsubishi i MiEV gestart
