Daniel J. Costello, Lisa Girion and Michael A. Hiltzik/LAT: The battle of the medical bills:

In late 2007, Centinela Hospital in Inglewood was losing nearly $1 million a month and had piled up $15 million in debt. Among the causes of the crisis: $25 million in overdue bills. .. Who owed Centinela that elusive $25 million? According to hospital officials, it was health insurance companies.   [Poster © Old American Century.org]

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Well, like Uncle Ronnie used to say to the lib'ral J.C., "there ya go again". Taken together the three articles cover the U.S. health insurance industry well, at times reading like the script from The Rainmaker, with this latest and last putting to print the insanity of "little boxes". Mistakes are made in one box, which will automagically kick live the trolls of the industry - trained by Vogons - whose entire purpose in life is to red circle the box, stamp "ERROR" on the front, and send it back from whence it came.

A system of automated extortion and fraud, refined to near perfection by descendants of Don Corleone, who (it turns out) did manage to get into the "drug" business after all.

Harsh words only with no solution? No, I have a solution. It's there on the poster. The only problem is the extreme loss of employment for everyone in those glass houses of the insane. Including the trolls. But that's not really much of a loss.