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Series 2 has now been filmed and will be out sometime later this year. There will be a bit of a Sherlock reunion going on as Rupert Graves is in it although I don’t know if his appearance is as an ongoing character or just a one off. Also appearing are some very familiar names (in the UK at least): Simon Callow; Miranda Richardson, Jason Watkins and Claire Skinner. I’m sure that it will be worth the wait.

Today is the 138th anniversary of the visit of the King of Bohemia to 221b Baker Street which touches off A Scandal in Bohemia. Watson writes: >> One night—it was on the twentieth of March, 1888—I was returning from a journey to a patient... <<

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You are absolutely right about the effect of health insurance on medical costs. Insurance inserts itself between the consumer of services (the patient) and the provider of services (the doctors, hospitals, etc.). This distorts the normal economic relationship between consumers and providers. As you say, the consumer does not care about the cost of care because someone else is paying for it. This is counter to almost every other economic transaction there is. Since the consumer doesn't care, the provider can charge whatever it wants. The only limitation is now how much the insurance company is willing to pay, which leads to numerous mechanisms to control costs, such as copayments, coinsurance, allowable amounts, preferred provider organizations, HMOs and managed care networks, etc. Elementary, my dear Watson! 🙂

Oh brillant idea, Mr Sherlock. Very nice deductions. I also heard something similar, Jim may be the younger generation as in the canon James is much older than Sherlock so, Professor James may be Jims father and the next enemy to face.