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...Americans with health-insurance plans substantially above the national average (which is about $13,000 for a family of four) are state employees and union members. It's true that the few Wall Street and other Fortune 500 executives have gold-plated plans that pay for any doctor or specialist, require no out-of-pocket expenses and tack on perks like nutrition counseling. But the vast majority of Cadillac plans are those that typically offer consumers relatively low co-pays for doctor visits and generic and name-brand prescription drugs and preset and relatively affordable out-of-pocket costs...
...what everyone wishes and aspires and loves to be," Holder says. And that was the echoed sentiment from all convention-goers: "It's really about pretending what it's going to be like when you're grown up. Barbie has had over 108 careers, so you can be a doctor, a policewoman, a firefighter, even a television chef," says Grampp. "You really can be anything...
...often be purchased for the price of a high-end TV. In Iran - the only country in the world where organ sales are legal - a healthy kidney retails for about $6,000. The going rate is less than half that amount in India, which has an abundance of doctors capable of performing the procedure and destitute masses often unable to raise cash any other way. In January 2008, police busted an organ racket outside New Delhi that allegedly conned or forced poor laborers to relinquish their kidneys to wealthy clients. Investigators say the ring operated for years and included...
...much more difficult, not least because there are easier ways to make a buck. Selling organs has been illegal since 1984, and is punishable by five years in prison and a $50,000 fine. Even if breaking the law doesn't deter you, it's difficult to hoodwink a doctor into believing that a fraudulent organ donor's motives are purely altruistic. U.S. hospitals run donor-recipient couples through a series of interviews, including a meeting with a social worker, who checks to make sure that no money is exchanging hands and ensures that both parties understand the details...
McKalip, David • photoshopped image of Obama as a witch doctor with a bone through his nose is forwarded to fellow Tea Party loons by with the note, "Funny stuff...