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Reader take: Moral hazard, and whether patients should consider cost in their health care decisions

The following is a reader take by an anonymous medical student. One of the ideas that comes up in the search for explanations of high healthcare costs is the so-called “Moral Hazard”—the idea that insured patients are more likely to agree to unnecessary procedures because they don’t pay for them directly. Not everyone thinks it is real—does a patient have the medical knowledge to make an informed decision? Recently, I’ve become convinced that the Moral Hazard does exist. I’ve seen it w

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The Pirate Bay Not so Pirate Anymore Thanks to Global Gaming Factory

I don’t know if it’s the last lawsuit The Pirate Bay has gone through but something has definitely changed their mind about the whole Pirate idea. Maybe it’s the $7.8 million that the Global Gaming Factory will pay for The Pirate Bay that did it. After the purchase you will probably have to pay for the content you are downloading but we don’t have all the details just yet. Will the community behind The Pirate Bay vanish? Here’s what the Pirates say: If the new owners will screw around

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AmBank’s What Women Want Campaign

Recently AmBank Group launched a corporate social responsibility (CSR) campaign called What Women Want. This campaign is touted as the first of its kind in the industry to recruit women as financial services agent for its insurance arm, AmAssurance.This campaign aims to recruit some 1,500 women as its agents. This campaign will commence on July …To read more personal …

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Term Life Insurance Presents Options for Family, Individual

Released on: June 30, 2009, 4:53 am Author: InsuranceAgents.com Industry: Financial Today’s economy has many people wondering about the future of their loved ones. Rightfully so; if they were to pass, not only would their family members have to deal with the emotional turmoil of their deaths, but they would also have to contend to funeral costs, financial debts, mortgage [...]

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Death of pink bunny shocked many Japanese

The pink bunny is the mascot character of the not-very-sadly missed English school, Nova, which succumbed to market forces last year, although the name has been bought out and the rabbit has returned from the grave and been spotted in television advertisements. The survey presented here is from iShare, where they looked at bankruptcy . Demographics Between the 9th and 12th of June 2009 558 mobile phone-owning members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet

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