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The nation’s largest employer thinks big companies should be required to provide health insurance for their workers.
Wal-Mart, the country’s biggest retailer and the second-largest corporation in the world according to this year’s Fortune 500, this week endorsed the idea…
With the meltdown of the American financial system dominating news reports, another long-running crisis continues unchecked, squeezing American businesses and workers as never before.
Last week, the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation reported that family health insurance coverage provided by an employer now…
You drop your car off for routine service. The mechanic has bad news. He needs to replace a part you’ve never heard of. It’s going to be expensive, he says.
Is this for real, you ask yourself, or is he just…
He didn’t come to St. Louis to walk the fault line in modern medicine. But that’s essentially what happened when Sen. Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, visited with cardiac patients at Barnes-Jewish Hospital last week.
Cardiac care units like the…
Nonprofit hospitals are increasingly demanding payment in advance for complex and expensive cancer treatments and other non-emergency care for life-threatening illness, the Wall Street Journal reports this week.
It highlights the story of 52-year-old Lisa Kelly of Lake Jackson, TX., who was…
