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Until now. Thanks to the Health-Care Callousness Assessment Test (or HCCAT, for short)--a test I've devised as a supporter of universal coverage enacted in economically rational ways--the guesswork and knee jerk can be taken out of the equation. With three simple questions--the kind that can...
Question 3: Do you support limiting a family's annual exposure to medical costs to some reasonable percentage of its income? The noncallous answer must be yes. It is scandalous that in one of the richest nations on earth, millions go broke because they get sick. The failure to include...
In one respect, you could argue that doing your taxes has never been easier. Let's take me as an example. A few weeks ago, I ripped open my copy of TurboTax Deluxe Deduction Maximizer, popped the CD into my laptop, and happily followed the step-by-step on-screen...
Back in the world of bricks and mortar, the likes of H&R Block and Jackson Hewitt, the two largest tax prep outfits, are still able to charge an average of $150 to $200 a pop for doing a return. Pricing at these companies regularly rises 5% to 7% a...
ONE OF THE MANY OBSTACLES Richard Nixon faced as President was a fiery National Archives librarian named Mary Livingston. In 1970 she was given personal papers Nixon wanted to donate to the archives, along with an affidavit, prepared by a manuscripts dealer, indicating the President had handed over the documents...