Healthcare insurance ideas that make sense

Here's another opinion piece about a healthcare plan that makes sense. It's unfortunate that the congresscritters currently working on numerous plans haven't figured out that less is better. They're trying to kill a gnat on a glass dish with a sledge hammer without breaking the dish. All we need is to cover the most catastrophic cases of healthcare needs and then let people shop for their own, everyday needs. Then we won't have to worry so much about rationing, death panels, or anything else since the most catastrophic cases will be covered and the marketplace would take care of everything else.

Oddly enough this article came from the New York Times. I hope it becomes a more widespread idea with broader coverage.

Natural Gas bubbling up everywhere?

It seems that the energy crisis may have now been averted according to this article. Apparently engineers have figured out new ways to extract natural gas, thus increasing the amount of recoverable reserves to levels never before imagined. Some time ago, I posted a link to another article saying that the earth itself is creating this natural gas along with oil, that it's not some kind-of result of dinosaurs remains. If both articles are accurate, it looks like we don't need to worry about long-term energy needs unless these environmental wackos can convince governments that climate change is real, then we're all in trouble.