Category Archives: Health

Health care divides small business community

By doris | Published: September 4, 2009

Full Story at money.cnn.com (Fortune Small Business) — Congressional efforts to revamp the country’s healthcare system have sparked a fierce debate within the small business community, pitting owners who believe that reform would curb rising healthcare costs against neighbors who fear higher taxes. All sides of the debate were on display this summer as legislators [...]

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Health care’s big money wasters

By doris | Published: August 11, 2009

Full Story at money.cnn.com That’s half of the $2.2 trillion the United States spends on health care each year, according to the most recent data from accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Health Research Institute. What counts as waste? The report identified 16 different areas in which health care dollars are squandered. But in talking to doctors, nurses, [...]

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Are MDs diagnosing us into the poorhouse?

By doris | Published: July 26, 2009

Full Story at Money Features.blogs.money.cnn.com There’s no question about it: When you go to a doctor nowadays, you’re more likely to be diagnosed with something, and sent home with a prescription, than you were a generation ago. A much tougher question to answer is whether or not these new diagnoses, and new tests and treatments [...]

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The ‘new’ new tax on the rich

By doris | Published: July 25, 2009

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The definition of “rich” may be going up should lawmakers choose to impose extra taxes on the wealthy to pay for health reform. Three committees writing the lead House bill have called for an additional tax to be imposed on income above $280,000 for singles and $350,000 [...]

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Jackson’s comeback: What might have been

By doris | Published: June 29, 2009

Full Story At money.cnn.com LOS ANGELES (Fortune) — – One of the executives whose hapless job it was to determine whether Michael Jackson really had it in him to mount a 50-show concert gig in London slated to begin next month told me a few weeks ago that Jackson was surprisingly robust. What was clear, [...]

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Futures dive on flu outbreak

By doris | Published: April 27, 2009

Full Story At CNNMoney.com LONDON (CNNMoney.com) — U.S. stock futures sank Monday as investors worried about the economic impact of a global swine flu outbreak. At 4:58 a.m. ET, Dow Jones industrial average, Standard & Poor’s 500 and Nadaq 100 futures were sharply lower. Futures measure current index values against perceived future performance and offer [...]

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Tests show ‘possible’ salmonella at Texas plant

By doris | Published: February 11, 2009

Full Story At  CNN.com CNN) — Tests show products at a Peanut Corporation of America subsidiary in Texas may be tainted with salmonella, state health authorities said on Tuesday. The Texas Department of State Health Services said on Tuesday it requested that the plant be closed after the company reported the findings of a private [...]

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