insurance premiums

Providing some evidence that competition between private insurers doesn’t exactly keep coverage costs in check, Families USA, an advocate for health care consumers, issued a report today revealing that premiums in North Carolina jumped 5.3 times faster than state earnings since 2000. The details:
* For family health coverage provided through the workplace in North Carolina, [...]

Did you ever do something that, with the benefit of  hindsight, seemed really, really stupid and you wondered what exactly you were thinking at the time?
Imagine how the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation must feel these days. The same agency that now says it needs to borrow $500 billion in emergency funds to take over failed [...]