Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Are insurance companies gouging ?


Doctors' fees keep getting higher, is it inflation, greed or does the fault lie with corporate profit taking by insurance companies ?

A US Government report indicated that “Premiums in 2003 increased by 9.2 percent for single coverage, 10 percent for employee-plus one coverage, and 9.2 percent for family coverage over the prior year, continuing a trend of increasing premiums observed each year since the start of the survey in 1996.” Ouch !

Monday, September 12, 2005

The bird has flown

FEMA has a new boss, 2 in fact. A seasoned fire fighter from Miami and a vice admiral from the Coast Guard, can they clean New Orleans?