By VIKAS BAJAJ : BOSTON — As a wave of home foreclosures courses through the United States, some of the nation’s hardest hit cities think they have found a way to ease the blight left on their communities by the crisis.
Using taxpayer and private money, Boston, Minneapolis, San Diego and a handful of other places […]
Posted on August 26th, 2008 by admin
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By KEVIN SACK : It is one of the most audacious promises in a campaign that has been thick with them.
In speech after speech, Senator Barack Obama has vowed that he will lower the country’s health care costs enough to “bring down premiums by $2,500 for the typical family.” Moreover, Mr. Obama, the presumptive Democratic […]
Posted on July 23rd, 2008 by admin
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By REED ABELSON and MILT FREUDENHEIM
The economic slowdown has swelled the ranks of people without health insurance. But now it is also threatening millions of people who have insurance but find that the coverage is too limited or that they cannot afford their own share of medical costs.
Many of the 158 million people covered by […]
Posted on May 4th, 2008 by admin
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By MICHAEL COOPER and KEVIN SACK
TAMPA, Fla. — Senator John McCain detailed his plan to solve the nation’s health care crisis in a speech here Tuesday, calling for the federal government to give some money to states to help them cover people with illnesses who have been denied health insurance.
Mr. McCain’s health care plan would […]
Posted on April 30th, 2008 by admin
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What’s Online : By DAN MITCHELL
SHOULD employers have the right to punish workers who smoke when they are not working?
The question is a troublesome one, with persuasive arguments on both sides. Employers that provide health insurance have an interest in the health of their workers. But workers do not want their employers regulating their private […]
Posted on April 26th, 2008 by admin
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By KEVIN SACK
To keep the state’s landmark universal health coverage plan afloat, Massachusetts lawmakers are looking to tap an increasingly popular source of financing for health-related initiatives: tobacco taxes. If the state raises its tax by as much as $1 a pack, it will join New York — and possibly a number of other states […]
Posted on April 21st, 2008 by admin
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