One major area in the health insurance industry that needs some repair is how to improve the health insurance plans of seniors who are planning to retire but who aren’t old enough yet to take advantage of Medicare benefits.

The U.S. Census tracks everything from the adoption of digital media to the amount of volunteerism. But one recent statistic sheds light on the skyrocketing rise in the spending on prescription drugs.

If you have taken the risk to go without health insurance, now may be a prudent time to reassess. Recent partnerships between hospitals and credit agencies have made the consequences of not having insurance even more dire. You cannot depend on your hospital to offer generous interest-free payment plans like before. With banks and financial firms buying medical debt from hospitals, patients with medical bills are fast becoming consumers with credit card debt.

New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson’s plan to reform the nation’s health care system is about spending much more than the federal government can afford. And he says it can all be done without raising taxes. Richardson’s statements in this week’s health insurance online forum are truly laughable.

Most of us today associate dream interpretation with psychoanalysis. The world of dreams applies only to the psychotherapy branch of medicine. However, perhaps we should take a page from the book of ancient Greek medicine and listen to what our dreams might be telling us about the state of our bodies as well as the state of our minds.

Requiring Americans to purchase health insurance is an absolute joke. It cannot and will not work. And either the government will be ticketing many, many people for not having health insurance, or it will find the idea—if it becomes law—going the same direction as Hillary Clinton’s 1993 health care proposal: into the trash.