These are hyperinflated cost structures or fraudulent billings in the US. In other parts of the world, prices are much, much lower. In fact, overseas, one might skip the insurance altogether and medical costs are lower than your 20% deductible. Cash colonoscopy, $600-750. Diabetes, lots of very cheap treatments, going out of control is expensive. I pay for advanced stage IV cancer chemo treatments totally out of pocket - outside the US.

Remember Alexander Litvinenko. Diss putin can get you killed.

Base station your house and use the older tech for a few miles radius. Takes care of day-to-day needs.

Frightening. Societally, worse than the diseases and broken bodies that come home from these wars. Many third world countries will soon be more free than the USSA - time to emigrate.

...hype is running out of steam. Now we'll see used meteor shield salesmen in academia looking for govt tit and power.

Now we know what happens, -ed to intelligent life at a certain stage.

...except it might not be too mysterious. Potential win for everyone, if they half way behave themselves...

At the Office 2003/2007 interface, I had better luck with Open Office displaying some documents between Excel 2003 and Excel 2007 than with either Excel. Microsoft internal document standards are a farce.

Sounds like a senile old socialist.

....will tell as to the "superiority" of these prawns. For those of us that grew up with the "superiority" of margarine over butter, high carb foods over paleo etc I'm willing to watch for 5-10 years first, see what the food chemistry and real problems turn out to be.

We should consider clean coal plants and dump Bloomberg not so gently. CAGW is a scam....

Parts of Asia have their act together. The US is largely a 2nd world country in terms of internet access and rates.

...and grandparents can breathe easier today.

Imagine when they investigate 100 sperm donor siblings or "cousins"...

but there are a lot of cheaper, better therapies that are ignored or attacked by pharmaceutical, medical interests, whether natural substances or generic drugs used off label. The FDA essentially promotes expensive, less effective, often dangerous therapies that are officially blessed. I've saved $40,000+ a month recognizing this situation the last several years, with better research and results in my family when the doctors themselves said no real hope several years ago.