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Obama: 'We don't have moment to spare'
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama, summoning business leaders to the White House this morning to rally support for his $825-billion economic stimulus plan, made a public appeal for rapid congressional approval of the package. "When it comes to...Tags: Google Inc., State Budgets, Satellite and Cable Service, John Boehner, Television Industry
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Obama: Healthcare costs must be cut
The Swampby Peter Nicholas President Obama suggested at a town hall event Wednesday night that one way to shave medical costs is to stop expensive and ultimately futile procedures performed on people who are about to die and don't stand to......Tags: Surgery, Budgets and Budgeting, Madelyn Dunham, Colorado, Maryland
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Snow shutters D.C., Senate has 60 votes
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated with president's statements. It's snowing so hard on Washington today that they are grounding all buses and surface trains. It's not going to stop anytime soon. There's already a foot of snow on the ground,......Tags: Medicare, New York, Joe Lieberman, Religious Festivals, Barack Obama
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For Farmington Bank Directors, An Eye-Opening Payoff For Converting To Stock Ownership
The Hartford CourantOne shareholder at the annual meeting of the holding company for Farmington Bank asked about the price of safe deposit boxes. Another wondered why the board of directors is all male. The issue of pay for the directors of this 20-branch bank didn't come up...Tags: Briarwood, Sales, Banking, Finance, Economy, Business and Finance
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At Aetna, another example of screwy medical pricing
Consumers have been told by insurers again and again that if they want cheaper prices for prescription drugs, they need to order them in bulk from mail-order pharmacies. And typically, it works out that way. Sometimes, however, the prices reveal how...
Tags: Insurance, Lipitor (drug), Consumers, CVS Corp., Prices
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Problem Solver updates: Water flowing; medical claim still ailing
For the first time in almost a month, the water is flowing in Cassandra Austin's town house. Austin, featured in Sunday's What's Your Problem? column, said service was restored late Friday, meaning she no longer had to pour jugs of water into her toilet...
Tags: Medicare, Jon Yates, Government Health Care, Health and Medical Professionals
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Problem Solver: Medical billing causes patient pain
Before he visited the doctor to get custom orthotics, Gil Harris contacted both Medicare and his supplemental insurance company, Aetna, to see if they would pay for the shoe inserts. Medicare said no but Aetna said yes — as long as the bill was...
Tags: Medicare, Insurance, Jon Yates, Government Health Care, Health and Medical Professionals
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Kids Alive Fest to be held Saturday
Children’s Village of Washington County will host its 22nd annual Kids Alive Fest on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission is free. The event will be held rain or shine. Scheduled activities: helicopter landing, 11 a.m., Maryland State Police...
Tags: Maryland State Police, Ronald McDonald (fictional character), Entertainment, Health and Safety at School, Music
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Children's Village to host Kids Alive Fest
Children’s Village to host Kids Alive Fest Children’s Village of Washington County will host its 22nd annual Kids Alive Fest Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission is free. The event will be held rain or shine. Scheduled activities:...Tags: Interior Policy, Maryland State Police, Ronald McDonald (fictional character), Health and Safety at School, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland)
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Is $1,721.75 the bill you'd expect for treating a cut?
It was your basic, run-of-the-mill accident. Kim Haselhoff's 9-year-old son got nipped in the finger by one of the family dogs. It didn't seem too serious, but there was a bit of blood. Unfortunately, the pediatrician's office had just closed, and the...Tags: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Medicare, X-rays, Walmart, Government Health Care
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Problem Solver: Ample time passes before kidney stone billing error resolved
The pain in his stomach was almost debilitating. On Nov. 1, 2010, Bill Lepek went to the emergency room at Presence Resurrection Medical Center in Norwood Park. Physicians did some scans and conducted some tests, then zeroed in on the source of his...
Tags: Medicare, Insurance, Jon Yates, Medical Procedures and Tests, Government Health Care
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CEO Pay For 2012 In State, Country Part Of Broken System
The Hartford CourantThe AFL-CIO launched its annual database of CEO pay Monday, showing the average 2012 pay of CEOs at companies on the Standard & Poor's 500 index was $12.3-million, or 354 times more than the average American worker earned. The average of those S&P 500...Tags: Cigna Corporation, Tim Cook, Employees, Culture, Middlefield
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