Usher’s ex-wife,Tameka Raymond may be forced to take her 11-year-old son off life-support as early as next month if she cannot find a way to pay the medical bills as his insurance coverage is about to expire. Tameka has not lost hope that her son, Kyle Glover, can make a drastic recovery … despite doctors declaring […]
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One Document, Under Siege
Here are a few things the framers did not know about: World War II. DNA
Inside the New Medical Privacy Law
Who hasn’t experienced that sinking feeling during a visit to the pharmacy , or the face-reddening trauma of a teenage trip to the dermatologist ? If a new law is successful, those excruciating moments are a thing of the past
Yes, It’s a Mess–But Here’s How to Fix It
Health care in America is suffering a total nervous breakdown, but it isn’t just because doctors are striking and maternity wards are closing.
INSURANCE: Chip off the Old Rock
How long will you live? Today everybody expects to live longer
How Safe Are We?: How We Got Homeland Security Wrong
When researcher Karen Clark developed the first probability-based model for measuring the threat of natural disasters in the U.S. in 1987, almost no one cared.
Three Men And a Bailout
The largest government bailout in U.S. history was born before dawn on Sept
Mississippi Waters Roll into Louisiana, Bearing the Ghosts of Katrina
Leigh Ann Heinse can’t help but feel nervous right now. Two years ago, she and her husband purchased what they believed was their forever home, a four-bedroom fixer-upper in a kid-friendly subdivision in Baton Rouge, La., a half mile from the Mississippi River
Schapiro, Bair, Warren: Female Sheriffs of Wall Street
A few weeks back, at an event to celebrate the role of women in finance, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner tried to get things started with a joke. He said he had recently come across a headline that asked, “What If Women Ran Wall Street?” “Now that’s an excellent question, but it’s kind of a low bar,” Geithner continued, deadpan amid rising laughter
Will Insurance Agents Be First Victims of Health Reform?
As Democrats on the campaign trail do their best to drum up support for health care reform by touting the benefits that take effect this year, it’s easy to forget that the full thrust of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act doesn’t kick in until 2014. But by then, a few major players in the health care industry might have already experienced a real downside of the massive overhaul, so much so that they may no longer exist