Healthcare
Yahoo News, March 15th, 2010 It took lawmakers a year to shape President Barack Obama's health care bill.
If it finally passes Congress, it'll take the better part of a decade to
write the user manual for consumers and doctors, employers and
insurance
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The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, February 28th, 2010Medical and long-term care costs represent a substantial uninsured risk
for most retired households. In 2007, spending on Medicare premiums
and co-payments among married
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The New York Times, February 15th, 2010I’m trying, with some difficulty, to imagine myself as a woman in
her 80s, someone with such advanced cognitive impairment that I can
correctly answer fewer than a third of the questions on a commonly used
test.
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The New York Times, February 4th, 2010During my training, I took care of a man in his 50s with a devastating
surgical complication: His abdominal incision had split open a week
after an emergency operation. Even after we had taken him back to the
operating
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The New York Times - January 11, 2010It’s a conversation that most people dread, doctors and patients alike. The cancer is terminal, time is short, and tough decisions loom — about accepting treatment or rejecting it, and choosing where and how to die.
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Newsweek - January 8, 2010In the federal government's explanations of swine flu, through its Web site and public-service announcements, one message has come through loud and clear: seniors can rest easy. Children face a much greater risk from this disease,
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The New York Times - January 6, 2010When the vast Consumer Electronics Show, underway this week in Las Vegas, adds an exhibition called Silvers Summit, devoted to new products for the aging and their caregivers, brace yourselves. American tech companies,
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The New York Times, December 29th, 2009In almost every room people were sleeping, but not like babies. This
was not the carefree sleep that would restore them to rise and shine
for another day. It was the sleep before — and sometimes until — death.In
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Reuters, December 14th, 2009Americans may live significantly longer in the future than current
U.S. government projections, and that could mean sharply higher costs
than anticipated for Medicare and other programs, researchers reported
on Monday.
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The New York Times, December 8th, 2009Over the next several weeks, members of Congress will be confronted
with one scary story after another about what will happen if they try
to cut health care costs.Tax the costliest health insurance
plans? Workers
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Yahoo News, November 28th, 2009For many seniors, the
holiday season can trigger melancholy as they think about lost loved ones,
struggle with health issues or worry about money problems, according to
the American Geriatrics Society.
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Yahoo Finance, November 27th, 2009It is important as we debate health insurance reform that we also
protect those consumers who are making an effort to plan for the costs
of their own long-term care in advance. In recent years, long-term care
insurance
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The New York Times, December 4th, 2009WHEN I stock up on ibuprofen (my painkiller of choice), I typically buy a 500-count bottle of a store brand like Kirkland or Rite Aid. After all, ibuprofen is ibuprofen. Each pill costs me about 3 cents — or only
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The New York Times, December 4th, 2009Under the health care bills currently being debated in Congress,
more than 30 million uninsured Americans would gain coverage. To help
offset the costs, the Senate legislation would reduce Medicare spending
on
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The New York Times, November 27th, 2009CAN you really shop for doctors and hospitals the way you would for airfares and flat-screen TVs? Health care consumers are encouraged to comparison-shop on things
like doctor’s fees and heart surgery rates. But
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