Headline News Archive

2009

September

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• Striking a balance on health spending. A dirty word in health-care reform is "rationing," a term that conjures up the image of faceless government bureaucrats denying lifesaving therapies in the name

28

• Role reversal on Medicare spending. After years of trying to cut Medicare spending, Republican lawmakers have emerged as champions of the program, accusing Democrats of trying to steal from the

27

• The fight over flexible spending accounts. The tumult at the town hall meetings has mostly died down and the debates over socialized medicine have gotten a bit old for everyone. But

• Could your financial life survive a disaster?. Every natural disaster sears us with the same images: Forlorn families sifting through ashes for possessions. And business owners peeling open the charred remnants of

25

• Buenas noticias para ancianos con Medicare. La Cámara Baja estadounidense aprueba frenar aumentos en este programa de salud Millones de pacientes de Medicare, un programa de salud público destinado

24

• Time to prepare for 2009 taxes. If you've been pounded by the recession, I imagine the last thing you want to think about is your tax situation. But you'd better be

22

• Who pays for health-care reform; is it fair?. No one is against expanding health coverage on principle. As we come down to crunch time, the health-reform debate is all about money. Once you

16

• No public option in Senate health plan. Amid fresh signs of tensions among Democrats over healthcare, a leading senator today released the last major proposal that Congress will consider as it attempts

14

• Tools let doctors see patients via Internet. When Robyn Broomell was pregnant a few years ago, she needed advice from a specialist at the University of Maryland Medical Center because she is

• Nonprofits excluded in health care reforms. Nonprofit organizations say they are upset that Congress and the Obama administration have not addressed their rising health care costs in the various health care

13

• Health care advocates help find answers. When Kathleen Henry’s uncle was told he had bladder cancer in May, she knew she needed help. Even though Ms. Henry has a nursing

12

• Delinquency and credit scores. When you do a short sale of a house, or modify the mortgage, is there much of an effect on your credit score? What if

10

• Health Care Reform (Chinese). 歐巴馬總統9日晚在國會的健保改革演講中，鄭重表示，他將會終結近百年來歷屆總統徒勞無功的健保改革，今天不做，明天絕對會後悔。他在國會和朝野大眾重新開始辯論改革方向的關頭，清晰解釋他的改革目標，首先不影響已有保險者的既有利益，但會讓無保險者獲得健保，提高健保品質、降低醫保費用，所有人都必須買基本醫療保險；但他同時強調，健保利益不惠及非法移民。

• Push to digitize patients’ records. On one proposal for health care reform at least, there is a rare bipartisan consensus: the push to computerize patient records. The goal of moving

• Playing investment games with life and death. Even in the best of times, some investors are always looking for that golden, seemingly risk-free investment that will net them fabulous returns. But the

08

• When your insurer says you're not covered. The untimely disappearance of Sally Marrari's medical coverage goes a long way toward explaining why insurance companies are cast as the villain in the health-care

• Health compromise floated before Obama speech. As President Obama and top advisers drafted his eagerly awaited health care speech to Congress, new details emerged Monday about fees and coverage limits under

• Groups try to protect buyers in clunker deals. Consumer groups are collecting data on cash-for-clunker deals that became clunkers for buyers and plan to bring the data to the National Highway Traffic Safety

07

• Healthcare ideas losing out to ideology. The big mystery of the Democrats' loss of the commanding heights in the national healthcare debate is how they managed to let ideologies trump ideas.

06

• Managing dental costs. MUCH has been said and written about the tens of millions of Americans without health insurance. But often overlooked in these discussions is another vital

• In case a disaster strikes. The wildfires in California are a reminder that disaster can strike at any time, and it pays to be prepared. Howard Mills, chief adviser of

03

• Stay on top of new mortgage rules. Over the next two years, consumers may feel like an overscheduled soccer mom when trying to keep track of the effective dates of new rules

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• How to lower health costs. More coverage. More choice. Better care. And lower costs. Those are the four goals of health reform. None are easy. But reducing costs is probably

August

31

• Highway safety officials urge texting ban. An organization of state highway safety officials on Monday plans to call for a ban on texting while driving, joining a growing chorus of legislators

• Health care: Cost vs fairness. Chris Denny, who runs a small marketing firm in Santa Rosa, Calif., buys his own health insurance for $117 a month. An avid gardener, Denny, 27, describes