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For a lot of us, the number one item on our New Year's resolution list is to lose that weight we gained over the holidays. While trying to get your body into better shape is certainly an admirable goal, it's important to remember that the point of a New Year's diet should never be simply to shed pounds.

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.

You and I may think of our health care system as an entirely modern construction, comprised of the latest scientific discoveries developed in space age style labs to keep our human bodies going longer and better than ever before.

There's been a lot of talk about how bad our healthcare system is in the United States, and how far behind other nations we are in terms of ensuring that every single American has adequate healthcare coverage. But how does our healthcare actually compare to that of other countries?

Because thinking about health insurance doesn't always have to be boring.