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Justin, I looked up the fast weight loss diets ratio of my own health insurer, HIP New York, and they were 85%. A loss ratio of 85% is common (and standard) in health insurance. Some of the companies that deal with small groups and individuals have a loss ratio as low as 80%, or even less, but that's a sign of inefficiency. Medicare has a loss ratio More

I get that she advocates a career change ideas of tactics. But specifically what sort of tactics should the US and UN adopt? Is there any precedent in which the US used disaster relief as a means of forcing change in the recipient nation's politics and economy? If not, does anybody at a think tank have any good ideas for how to force change? Now that More

wow, there are a bunch of blowhards and sad fellows right here on wallstreet journal. It is the Olympics!! Any country should be proud to host. The Olympics are not always a waist of money, they were profitable for Atlanta. They are only unprofitable if you build many new stadiums and infrustructure to host them, which Chicago doesn't need. More

Okay. I'm not even going to touch your comment, Sean, about the government paying the 28,000 people who will (theoretically) lose their jobs. The idea that anyone would support that is comedy. (Then again, the Fed does pay farmers NOT to farm --) Here's my question -- WHY kill public broadcasting? Why not stop paying farmers not to farm? Or stop the More

How can this be? With the $800 billion stimulus, TARP money for banks, cash for clunkers, Dodd-Frank law, bailouts of automakers and AIG and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and whoever I am leaving out, etc. You mean household finance incomes still went down and unemployment went up after all of that? You have got to be kidding me. By the way, it's no More

Vickie, you're clearly being racist. You should realize that generalizations like the one you just made highlight nothing more than your close minded ignorance on this topic. Instead of viewing it as a call to arms, you view it as an attempt to vilify a country where the corrupt are the minority. Mexico, is not what you think it is and Mexican immigrants, More

Mr Zhao, In 1979, Pol Pot was the leader of the Khmer Rouge and was engaged with the Vietnamese who were trying to remove him. Though he eventually lost control of most of Cambodia to the Vietnamese, he remained the leader of the Khmer Rouge until his death in 1998.....20 years after the Vietnamese invasion and well after they left Cambodia. As for More

adele it overheats my brain to think that people such as yourself actually exist....the president is your leader, all nations have leaders, a good leader follows the will characteristics of a good leader the people whenever possible but must act in opposition when the nation is threatened however make no mistake he is the president and as such can More

You are right on the money with your observation. Not to go off-topic, but that is one big reason, never mentioned, why there is so much pressure all over the country for states and cities to jettison public employees as a way to save money and reduce, or at least stabilize, taxes. The general perception is that public employment programs, from the More

The DemocRATS in the Senate held a vote today on the House Republican Budget. SURRPRISE! SURRPRISE! SURRPRISE! It was voted down on strict party lines as Hairy Reid went on to deamonize the Republicans for proposing a change to Medicare. Sleasy Hairy engaged in the tactics now labeled MediScare. The DemocRATS offer no solution nor budget. They are More