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Value of life, part 0.\nWear\nyour secret hat. Sgoti talks about putting a dollar value on a human\nlife.\n

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• Source: Value of life\n
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  • The value of life is an economic value used to quantify the benefit\nof avoiding a fatality. It is also referred to as the cost of life,\nvalue of preventing a fatality (VPF), implied cost of averting a\nfatality (ICAF), and value of a statistical life (VSL).
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• Supporting Source: Cost-benefit\nanalysis\n
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  • Cost-benefit analysis (CBA), sometimes also called benefit-cost\nanalysis, is a systematic approach to estimating the strengths and\nweaknesses of alternatives. It is used to determine options which\nprovide the best approach to achieving benefits while preserving savings\nin, for example, transactions, activities, and functional business\nrequirements.
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• Source: Social Credit\nSystem\n
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  • The Social Credit System is a national credit rating and blacklist\nbeing developed by the government of China. The social credit initiative\ncalls for the establishment of a record system so that businesses,\nindividuals and government institutions can be tracked and evaluated for\ntrustworthiness. There are multiple forms of the social credit system\nbeing experimented with, while the national regulatory method is based\non whitelisting (termed redlisting in China) and blacklisting.
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• Source: What\nis Body Part Insurance?\n
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  • Insuring body parts isn't anything new in the world of celebrities,\nbut it is a rare type of insurance that now counts athletes among its\nnumbers. The entire point of insuring a body part is to supplement a\nloss of income should that body part become injured, damaged, scarred,\nhandicapped or lost, preventing the individual from continuing to use it\nto generate income.
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• Source: Pre-existing\ncondition\n
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  • The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center defines a pre-existing\ncondition as a "medical condition that occurred before a program of\nhealth benefits went into effect". J. James Rohack, president of the\nAmerican Medical Association, has stated on a Fox News Sunday interview\nthat exclusions, based upon these conditions, function as a form of\n"rationing" of health care.
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• Supporting Source: The\nU.S. Department of Health & Human Services
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