Word: generic
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Whether these bare-bones policies are a good deal depends on who's buying them. Paying $20 for generic drugs, plus the $40 premium on Aetna's cheapest option, makes sense if your biggest monthly expense is $75 for the Pill. But maternity care is rarely covered by these plans. So if you're already a member and find yourself pregnant, some insurers may let you upgrade. If not, good luck switching carriers with a pre-existing condition--which, in the case of a normal pregnancy and delivery, can cost $8,000 to $12,000. If instead you simply break...
Here's the question that has obsessed more than a few political experts since the beginning of the presidential campaign: Why does Barack Obama consistently poll behind the generic Democrat in the 2008 race? What that means in regular speech is that when voters are asked whether they would prefer a Democrat or a Republican, the generic Democrat has scored as many as five points higher than Senator Obama does...
...come out of Maher’s mouth tend to be downright hilarious—you just have to get past the fact that Charles, who directed “Borat,” chose to center Maher’s global road trip around a poorly shot, highly generic interview...
...requisite conventions and clichés. “The Express” is a fine exemplar of this class of movies—not for its quality, but for its representativeness. Director Gary Fleder and writer Charles Leavitt rehash, but do not reinvigorate, a set of generic devices that will be familiar to almost any viewer who has taken in a sports film in the last 30 years. For better or worse—and with respect to creative innovation, I would argue worse—you know what you’re getting with...
...Night Falls,” which, along with “Saint Isabelle” is one of the few non-political songs on the album, could be a sweet ballad if its lyrics weren’t so generic and basic...