The Hall of Fire

The number of doctors in individual practice has been dropping for some time--the mountain of med school debt (another topic for discussion) means new doctors gravitate toward become junior "partners" with existing practices or joining larger "medical firms" to avoid taking on e...

Watched the first episode of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency last night, which managed to carry the tone and manner of Douglas Adam's story into a new setting rather well, I thought. Wisely, they kept Dirk English, though the story is set in Seattle and the other main players are American (...

ax, as someone with a bit of an inside view, do you have an insight as to why insurance has such high, consistent cost inflation? More than anything that seems to be the biggest problem and I don't think I've ever seen a good explanation for it. Here's the part that messes with people's heads: heal...

As someone who documents health insurance administration software, I can say with some authority we should just burn that shit down. The amount of monkey motion used in determining pricing of services is so great that companies literally lose track of how they calculate it. Turnover at big claims p...

Even the guy who runs Judicial Watch thinks Comey's timing was awful, according to the NYT. ETA: Though I tend to agree with yov. If there were an email in there that pinned something heinous on HRC, that would make a difference. But the whole email thing has become background noise for everyone on...

I've been sharing that skit with people from You Tube. Tom Hanks is one of the few actors that could pull that off. That he brought his A game to a SNL skit (to several of them this time around) is pretty damn impressive. And the skit itself... is really, really interesting. Funny but not light, wi...