Nate Silver points out: The Record Profits Myth strikes again — I don’t like the insurance companies either; I’d gladly get rid of them and replace them with single payer. But the industry’s profits are low: only about 3.3%. So what happens when insurance companies are forced to spend 85-90% of premiums on health care […]
Following up from last month, I decided to add April’s death tolls into the graphs so we can see how the “surge” is working. First off is the U.S. casualty totals With the exception of April 2004, this past April has been the deadliest of all others (including April 2003 when 74 soldiers died). Still […]
I decided it was time to put the casualty rates of the surge into a graphical representation to see how the surge is actually working. Using numbers from the Iraq Coalition Casualties site, I was able to compile two different graphs. Take the same 3 month period over different years I came up with the […]