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Insurance companies have a very technical term for this proportion - "medical loss ratio" (MLR) - and critics say the terminology itself illustrates the callousness of the health insurance business. Companies that sell coverage consider revenues that go to pay for medical costs "losses,"; minimizing these losses by dropping sick customers and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forcing Insurers to Spend Enough on Health Care | 12/22/2009 | See Source »

For much of this year, such poll talk was not much of a factor, as the results generally followed the typical pattern of first-term presidencies, with a strong honeymoon period that slowly petered out. But as Obama approaches the first year mark of his presidency, Democratic and Republican strategists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Obama Has to Worry About Polls | 12/22/2009 | See Source »

KP: Humans are highly social beings - we can either behave competitively or we can be cooperative. In more unequal societies, people are more out for themselves. Their involvement in community life drops away, and that?s corrosive.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Importance of Economic Equality | 12/22/2009 | See Source »

I recently changed the denominations of our currency to wipe out the savings of anyone who possessed over 300,000 won (basically a few hundred of your dollars). Why did I do this? Because a lot of those people had earned that money in private markets - which the Party here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dear President Obama: What North Korea Might Say | 12/22/2009 | See Source »

Now don't me wrong. It's a problem that the plane was intercepted, mostly because it puts the comrades in Beijing in a difficult spot. You could lobby them for more restrictive economic sanctions against us, just as you are now doing with Iran, and they are not comfortable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dear President Obama: What North Korea Might Say | 12/22/2009 | See Source »

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