I just got off the phone with an associate producer for Dateline NBC in New York. I feel a little bit blindsided: It's nearly quittin' time, it's been a long day and I gave up happy hours for Lent (among other things).

So I might have been a little off my game as the ambitious news hound chatted me up about limited benefit medical plans. But I wasn't so out of it to not recognize early on in the conversation that this cat had an agenda. And it broke down something like this:

“Limited benefit plans are shoddy financial instruments peddled by a bunch of Glengary Glen Ross knockoffs. We want to bust them. Will you help us?”

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