Entries Tagged as 'Insurance'

April 29, 2008

True Insurance: Removing the Moral Hazard

True (trū) adj.
1. Consistent with fact or reality; not false or erroneous
2. Real; genuine, rightful; legitimate, fundamental, or essential
3. Accurately shaped or fitted and conforms to rule, standard or pattern
I recently came across an article so good that I thought it should be republished in its entirety. The article was written by Frank Timmons and [...]

February 29, 2008

First Party Financing - Lets Get Real About Health Care

Financing (fə-năns’ ;) v.

To provide or raise the funds or capital for: financed a new car.
To supply funds to: financing a daughter through law school.
To furnish credit to.

The crisis that is American health care continues to get bad news. However, in a lame duck year, everyone realizes that not much is going to [...]

February 14, 2008

Covering Your Asset: The Body Shop Insurance Company

Asset (ăs‘ĕt‘ ;) n.

A useful or valuable quality, person, or thing; an advantage or resource.
A tangible or intangible item that can be applied to cover liabilities of a person or a business (cash, stock, inventory, rights, or goodwill).

I have previously made the argument that our personal health status should be considered a form of [...]

January 17, 2008

Overtreated and Underinformed: Too Much Medicine, Not Enough Evidence

Overtreated (ō’vər trēt ĭd) n.

The act, manner, or method of handling or dealing with someone or something.
Administration or application of remedies to a patient or for a disease or injury; medicinal or surgical management; therapy
The substance or remedy so applied.

Over the holidays, I was able to read a raft of some of [...]

December 11, 2007

Back in the Saddle and Ready to Ride

Entrepreneur (ŏn‘trə-prə-nûr’ ;) n.
1. A person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for a business venture.
2. An individual who, rather than working as an employee, runs a small business and assumes all the risk and reward of a given business venture, idea, or good or service offered for sale.
3. Business leader and [...]

December 4, 2007

Employer-Based Insurance: “Hasta La Vista, Baby!”

Hasta La Vista (äs′tä lä vēs′tä) n.
1. Spanish for “See you later” or “So Long”
2. Healthcare for the provision of “Employer Based Insurance”
I can distinctly recall the moment I first heard these now famous words in the 1991 Summer Blockbuster, Terminator II. John Conner was trying to teach the outdated Terminator how to get hip [...]