From The Mailbag

We received an answer to the guest post from The Mahablog we ran this Monday. Well, not an answer exactly.

Health Insurance Birmingham said...

According to the market-research group Datamonitor, medical inflation is the reason for yearly increases of 8% in health insurance premiums. The steady progress in the development of new drugs, therapies and equipment used to diagnose medical conditions and the resulting costs are an obvious reason for this. This is understandable and everyone wants the latest in diagnostics and treatments. Equipment becomes obsolete with time and invariably the very words newer and improved mean a rise in cost.

What the hell? A British private insurance clearing house? "Medical inflation?" (Perhaps that's one of those deals where a balloon is stuffed up one's vein or artery & inflated to improve/allow blood flow. We've no better idea.) This must be some sort of spammery (How these fucking robots are getting by the word verification is beyond us.) because it certainly doesn't provide any rationale or even information about health insurance cos. jacking up their rates & profits, little of which goes to "the latest in diagnostics & treatments."