We have a misconception of what the insurance companies job is. There are two reasons for insurance companies to exist in the current scheme of things. The first reason is to aggregate risk. That is to share risk amongst a large number of people. This is similar to car insurance or fire insurance. The second … Continue reading
Category Archives: Health and Fitness
The Insurance Industry Protection Act
The Senate passed the Insurance Industry Protection Act. Glad to know that our insurance industry will be healthy. Now can we start to deal with how to make Americans healthy? And hopefully that can be done without effecting the health of the insurance companies otherwise, it will not happen. After all when the press counts … Continue reading
To be or not to be
Just read another interesting article on personal genetics (here). I think we will learn so much in this field over the next twenty years. Some of it may be really surprising. Readers of my blog will know that I have been very active in doing my family history (Geneology). I have just started to add … Continue reading
2008: The year of DNA
Genealogy I have just sent my DNA in to Ancerstry.com. I am investigating my parental linage via the Y chromosome and my maternal linage via the mitochondrial DNA. For those that do not know, the Y chromosome is past from father to son. For instance, my father, I, my sons and their sons all have … Continue reading
Bottled Water: A Trumph of Marketing
It is time to tap your tap ( Tap your Tap). My wife and I are trying to get off of bottled water which as you must know cost about three times as much as gas, is terrible for the environment and does nothing special for our bodies that tap water can not do (and maybe … Continue reading
War on Cancer: Mission Not Accomplished
On January 3, 2006 Garry Betty, the CEO of Earthlink died from adrenal cortical cancer at the age of 49, this announcement hit me hard as does every announcement of the death of someone in the prime of their life from cancer. It was in the state of the union speech of Richard Nixon that … Continue reading
Two Thirds Done 