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Private healthcare’s failings affect everyone but the most privileged, whether through rising premiums, diminishing coverage, depressed wages or the financial catastrophe that often follows a serious illness or injury. Employers have seen medical bills rise 119% in a decade, to the point where the average employee costs $13,000 to insure each year. Workers pay around 30% of these premiums themselves, if they’re lucky. In the last two years, 60 million people have been without insurance.
Kurt Vonnegut’s last interview
Kurt Vonnegut is dwelling on the apocalypse. For the third time over lunch America’s funniest and most pessimistic novelist is explaining why he will welcome the end of the world.
© 2009 Andrew Purcell. 