Where Do All the Healthcare $ Go?

Was just reading a discussion on the topic of raising health insurance premiums.  It got me curious, so I decided to look up where the US ranks. We don't even make it in the top 25 for infant mortality rate or life expectancy, but we are number one on cost per person ($8,800) and percentage …

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Work Stress Can Kill You!

There was an article floating around the internet this week.  It discussed 31-year-old women in Japan that died from what they called “karoshi”.  The word translated to something like death from overwork or more likely “work stress”.  It is amazing that the Japanese cultural actually has a word for this phenomenon. This young lady died …

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Walking Saved My Life

As I look at the title it sounds a little too dramatic, but in some sense it is true. I suffer from some pretty bad stress.  Today is particularly bad and 100% of that stress is related to my job!  Running a credit department for a decent size community bank is extremely stressful.  Balancing between …

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