9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for September 25, 2003

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"Well, if you can't sell me individual health insurance, could you cover me as a small business of one?" "Here's the scale...We just raised it by 78 percent." "Omigod! That's more than my mortgage!" "The company concluded that anyone who would opt for small business coverage must be too sick to get individual, so it raised the rates to exile them." "Isn't it your business to insure people's health?" "Yes, but not their sicknesses."