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...same care. (Insurers can negotiate cheaper prices through contracts and because of volume.) What the new study suggests, though, is that providers often pass along the cost of treating the uninsured to their insured patients. Its analysis found that families pay, on average, as much as $1,100 extra and individuals $410 extra in health-care premiums each year in order to cover the cost of treatment to uninsured patients who cannot afford to pay their bills. That amounts to as much as 8% higher premiums due to the lack of universal health care in the U.S. "So many Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do Your Premiums Help Cover the Uninsured? | 3/25/2009 | See Source »

...reminder of what happened. We refuse to let that happen. So what we do is we get lights, we go top to bottom, left to right, like an inch from the wall, just looking over everything. And that's part of the physical side, but it's also the extra step we take to take care of the psychological side. We did a cleanup of a suicide in someone's living room. It was a young kid - he was 18. This was right near Christmas, and there was tissue everywhere from the gun blast. Unfortunately, we had to throw away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cleaning Up Death at War — and at Home | 3/24/2009 | See Source »

...also offering Mileage Plus members a quicker way to elite. Customers who register (do it here), book and complete travel by June 15, 2009, will earn double elite-qualifying miles. Elite status gets you upgrades (or complimentary seating in Economy Plus, where you'll have five inches of extra legroom) and access to priority check-in, security and boarding lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fast Track to Elite: Double Air and Rail Miles | 3/23/2009 | See Source »

...only expected but de rigueur in the cult of the North American suburban gothic that every SUV-driving, Levi’s-wearing mother secretly pops Adderall at her son’s soccer games or constantly downs Chardonnay to ease the pain of her husband’s extra-marital affair with his male coworker. Or something like that.James Boice echoes an all-too-common fear of sameness and suburban alienation when he describes the citizens of his hometown of Little Rocky Run, Virginia: “And they went to the gym after work and met their friends...

Author: By Lauren S. Packard, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Macabre, Mundane Merge | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

...pageant, becoming a pilot. “Cleaning” does this too, but then allows the characters to find salvation in the unlikeliest of places, breaking self-destructive cycles and pursuing new paths to success. We’ve seen most of this movie before, but the extra mile taken by “Cleaning” is well worth the journey...

Author: By Victoria J. Benjamin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sunshine Cleaning | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

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