Topic: The Associated Press
To help pay for the health-care reform plan put forth by the Obama administration, hospitals across the country have agreed to a cut in Medicare and Medicaid payments, Vice President Joseph Biden announced Wednesday.. Terms of the agreement, which should save an ...
A new report suggests that businesses that provide health insurance coverage for employees may have to deal with a 9 percent cost increase in 2010 and their workers may have to cope with an even larger increase.. The consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers said ...
Americans with health insurance pay a substantial "hidden health tax" that covers health care for those without insurance, according to a report released Thursday by the advocacy group Families USA.. Each year, the average family with health insurance pays out an extra ...
Ski slopes, beach towns attracted high-income earners in past decadeAfter two decades as a high-powered marketing executive, Scott Relf and his six-figure income moved from the cold of suburban Kansas City to the Florida coast. Because he could.Relf, 48, became a self-employed ...
When it comes to homeownership, Hispanics in New Jersey, single parents in California and senior citizens in Rhode Island all have something in common: Those long-standing gaps have been magnified by the real estate boom and now the historic bust, according to ...
A new study from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare and Quality found that 7 percent of adults and 19 percent of children taking chemotherapy drugs in outpatient clinics or at home were given the wrong dose or experienced other mistakes with their ...
A new study from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality found that 7 percent of adults and 19 percent of children taking chemotherapy drugs in outpatient clinics or at home were given the wrong dose or experienced other mistakes with ...
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is reminding beneficiaries to review their prescription drug coverage and health-plan needs for 2009 before the annual enrollment period ends on Wednesday, Dec. 31. Kerry Weems, CMS acting administrator, said Monday that many ...
Federal banking regulators missed opportunities to ease the financial crisis Federal banking regulators who followed the Bush administrations policy of opposing government intervention while giving nearly free rein to market forces are coming in for a big share of the blame for ...
Talking About Money storyIn a Nov. 6 story about people openly discussing their financial troubles, The Associated Press erroneously implied that Micki LeSueur of Chicago is facing foreclosure on a rental property. ___NEW YORK (AP) Money used to be like religion or ...