and we have a lovely fuck you to hand out. This fuck you goes to american private health insurance companies, for rescinding coverage for people with expensive claims, and then manipulating reporters to hide their behavior, and building relationships with lawmakers to prevent or subvert attempts at reform.  A former executive for CIGNA lays it all ( Read more... )

okay, so, you may have been following the debate on health care, and noticed that for all the ink spilled about single payer versus private health insurance versus CHIP versus whatever, no one seems to have a handle on why Americans pay more for crappier health care than anyone else in the industrialized world. is it greedy hmos ? is it ( Read more... )