Topic: Washington, DC
An accident or illness can be especially dangerous for the one in five women who lack health insurance. Marin County, just north of San Francisco, is among the wealthiest communities in America, but that doesn't mean the clinic's patients have health insurance. ...
Surveyed health insurers expect 10.5 pct rise in cost of claims, slightly below previous yearCosts for employer-provided health plans are expected to rise more than 10 percent within the next 12 months, a jump workers may feel in their paychecks or through ...
A health insurer whose TV commercials promised " peace of mind" for just $5 a day must stop running the national ads and pay a fine of $700,000 after New York officials accused it of leaving patients only with huge hospital bills.The ...
A growing recognition that the Obama Administration?s Home Affordability and Stability Program (HASP) is not working in its current design has fingers pointed all over Washington D.C. trying to place blame on mortgage servicers, investors and the administration itself. At hearings this ...
UnitedHealth Group's Center for Health Reform & Modernization has released a report outlining $322 billion that could be saved over the next decade by widespread adoption of health information technology.. The report, issued June 30, estimates that about half of the savings ...
Both metros suffer from a high unemployment rate; San Jose's is 11.2%, and Detroit's inching up to 14.9% in May 2009, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The median income in San Jose is $82,208; in Detroit, it's $42,809. In San ...
Now that Bernard L. Madoff has been sentenced to 150 years for fraud, it's time to heed some lessons: If it's a small firm and you know the name of the head person, Google him too. Run the same searches through some ...
Reforming the health insurance market so that all individuals are required to obtain at least a minimum amount of health insurance would eliminate the problem of adverse selection that the current system enables insurers to avoid, according to a perspective published online ...
What would America's household finances look like today if we as a nation were more financially literate? It's a compelling question, given the results of a recent survey by the not-for-profit National Foundation for Credit Counseling. About two-thirds of participants said they'd ...
5 charged in 'nightmare' Ponzi scheme that conned thousands of mortgage holders of $70MMore than 1,000 people were defrauded out of about $70 million by a group advertising the dream of homeownership in what turned out to be a nightmare Ponzi scheme, ...
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