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Divided Wethersfield Council OKs Budget
The Hartford CourantA deeply divided town council voted 5-4 Wednesday to approve the 2013-14 town budget after a bruising and bitter fight over school spending. In an unusual action, the council considered and rejected four proposed school budget reductions before five...Tags: Wethersfield, Finance, Political Fundraising, Economy, Business and Finance, Budgets and Budgeting
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Funding health care services
Judge Ginger Lerner-Wren, in her May 8 letter to the editor, makes the statement: "Florida is simply unable to pay for its overwhelming demand and costs for public health care." She implies that the answer to Florida's pressing need for added health care...Tags: Healthcare Provider, Justice System, Tamarac, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice
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For Wal-Mart, should healthcare be a cost of doing business?
Big employers beware -- some California lawmakers want to pressure you to extend health insurance to virtually everyone who lands on your payroll, even part-timers who work less than two hours a day. That's one of the effects that a bill by...
Tags: Employment Opportunities, Career and Workplace, Justice System, Government Health Care, Labor Legislation
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COLUMN: Has a new long-term bull market begun? - Anatole Kaletsky
ReutersBy Anatole Kaletsky May 9 (Reuters) - Two months ago, when Wall Street first approached a record high, I warned about the dangers of "stock market vertigo" - a condition that combines the fear of buying shares at unsustainably high prices with the...Tags: Earnings Forecasts, Germany, Marketing, Economy, Business and Finance, Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC
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Washington County Public Schools salary talks go public
julieg@herald-mail.comTwo officials representing Washington County Public Schools teachers took negotiations for raises public Tuesday, asking the Board of Education to reconsider the school system’s pay increase offer. The school system has offered a step increase,...Tags: Education, Teachers, Schools, Career and Workplace, Budgets and Budgeting
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Hospital fees vary for same treatment, U.S. data show
Centegra Hospital in McHenry charged $36,000 for implanting a permanent pacemaker. Less than 30 miles away, Vista Medical Center East in Waukegan charged more than $165,000 for the same procedure. To treat a case of simple pneumonia, meanwhile, John H....
Tags: Near West Side, Consumers, Prices, Insurance, National Government
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Hospitals' Prices Vary Widely For Same Procedures
The Hartford CourantThe price of major joint-replacement surgery, without serious complications, is nearly three times more at Greenwich Hospital than at Charlotte Hungerford Hospital in Torrington. It's $72,393 in Greenwich and $23,063 in Torrington, on average. At...Tags: Insurance, Economy, Business and Finance, Torrington, Stamford, Apples
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U.S. makes data available on wide disparity in hospital charges
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 8 (Reuters) - U.S. hospital charges for the same procedure vary widely, in some cases by tens of thousands of dollars, even within a particular town or city, according to data the U.S. government released on Wednesday to boost consumer...Tags: Government Health Care, Consumers, Medicare, Barack Obama, Kathleen Sebelius
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A health plan prescribed by 'Doc' Bowen
Instead of Obamacare, still so contentious and with all the pieces not yet in place, we could have had Bowencare, with the key piece put in place on July 1, 1988, by Ronald Reagan. It would be named for Dr. Otis R. Bowen, about whom there were many...
Tags: AIDS, Human Interest, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, U.S. Congress, Health Care Reform (2009)
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After impasse with IBEW, Glendale City Council imposes pay cut on utility workers
More than 200 Glendale Water & Power employees and their union comrades packed City Hall Tuesday night to protest a contract that cuts their pay by 1.75%. Despite the showing, the City Council — unable to reach a deal with the International...
Tags: Pension and Welfare, Google Inc., Collective Contract, Career and Workplace, Judges
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Absenteeism costs U.S. business $84 billion a year, report says
Employee absenteeism due to poor health costs U.S. businesses an estimated $84 billion a year in lost productivity, according to a new study. The annual cost ranges from $24.2 billion in professional fields to $160 million among agricultural workers,...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Employees
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Bicyclists have positive effect on their communities
A recent Voice contributor was critical of bicyclists and the accommodations being made for them, such as the recent law mandating 3 feet between motorists and bicyclists in South Bend. The gist of his letter was that bicyclists take and take and give...Tags: Arts and Culture, Jackie Walorski, Petroleum Industry, Museums, Veterans Affairs
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