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Americans detest monopolies. And rightly so. Theoretically, monopolies represent an inefficient allocation of scarce resources.
The health care reform bill is a lot less of a made-up sow and more like a severed equine cranium under the sheets.
The fact of the matter is that community rating is a bill of goods that increases health care insurance costs.
The benefits firm that embraces this business model stands to be viewed, potentially, as a transformative force within the industry
How do you represent yourself to your clients?
How many out there believe health care reform is dead?
By focusing on the causes of health care costs, rather than the financing of health care, we focus on the real problem.
Blogger Jeff Spiers gives a nod to Jonathan Swift in his satire of health care reform.
Someone has to do with less in order for health care costs to come down. And everyone can contribute in some way.
The problem is not the lack of competition among insurers. The problem lies in the labyrinthine thicket of tax law, employment law and insurance regulation.