How Private Health Coverage Works

Everything you always wanted to know about how private health coverage works (but were afraid to ask) in 27 short pages.

The report, from the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Health Care Marketplace Project, summarizes what private health coverage is, the types of organizations and health plans that deliver it, how risk pooling and underwriting work, and how it is regulated.

Its Just Too Hard

In response to an editorial on women serving in the US military who are sexually assaulted by their commanding officers and fellow soldiers, Gayle Rosenthal of Austin submits this letter to the editor:

Men can be soldiers, and men can be gentlemen, but maybe it’s just too hard to be both at the same time. Perhaps it’s time to reconsider the wisdom of women serving in combat zones.

It is really quite impressive how many offensive assumptions she was able to squeeze into those two short sentences.