The most authoritative report on the cost of health insurance came out yesterday, and its sure to cause some new outrage.
The average cost of a family insurance plan that Americans get through their jobs has risen another 7.7 percent this year, to $11,500, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. In only seven years, the cost has doubled, while incomes and company revenue, which pay for...
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BRUSSELS (AFX) - The EU's second-highest court has partly annulled a European Commission decision from 2001 that banned GlaxoSmithKline from selling its medicines to different wholesalers at different prices -- a ruling that could impact on future cases in the sector.
The European Court of First Instance (CFI) said the Commi...
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KELLS Under-18s maintained their unbeaten start to the season and are joint leaders of the Halifax Home Insurance National Youth League after round three of this season’s fixtures.
The home side had this game sewn up by half-time when they led by 24-2.
However, it was the visitors who were first on the score sheet when, after six minutes of play, Cougars loose forward Ben Sagar sl...
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LONDON: Insurer Standard Life Plc. posted a first-half operating profit of 206 million pounds, below market expectations, as the firm witnessed an increasing number of customers cashing in policies. The insurer said there has been an increase of around 100 million pounds in provisions for encashing policies.
Analysts had been expecting operating profit, on a European embedded value basis,...
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WASHINGTON _ Psssssst. Want to launch a political career? Try losing some weight.
From coast to coast, politicians of various backgrounds, ideologies and girths have won attention _ if not votes _ by waging public campaigns to shed some pounds.
In Arkansas, Gov. Mike Huckabee rose from small-state obscurity to national fame after losing more than 100 pounds and penning the self-help...
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KIRKLAND, Wash., Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- In a doctor's office near you, look for facts on a matter of growing concern, long term care insurance. Starting today, informative waiting room displays are being supplied to physicians by LTC Financial Partners LLC, the nation's most experienced long term care insurance brokerage.
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Sure, Jim Morningstar thought about moving to California. As a clinical psychologist with a passion for spiritual psychology - which means to live with purpose and inspire others to do the same -- it seemed like Morningstar and the West Coast were as imminent as socks and sandals.
But Morningstar stayed in Milwaukee, and in 1981, opened the School of Spiritual Psychology, 4200 W. Good Hop...
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OraSure Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: OSUR), the market leader in oral fluid diagnostics and the manufacturer of the OraQuick ADVANCE(R) Rapid HIV-1/2 Antibody Test, announced today that it has commenced several laboratory-based operational studies as the initial stage of the process to obtain U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") approval of the OraQuick ADVANCE(R) test for use in the consum...
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GREAT BEND - Nearly every Christmas season, Steve Bird and his family traipsed across Barton County's winter wonderland of lights, and his children fed live reindeer, visited with Santa and rode a train around the glowing displays.
Instead, owners of Fantasy Village, an elaborate holiday light and fixtures display, will auction pieces of the exhibit at the end of October.
"To s...
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Guidance From Doctors on Long Term Care Insurance; Information to Be Available in Waiting Rooms
KIRKLAND, Wash., Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- In a doctor's office near you, look for facts on a matter of growing concern, long term care insurance. Starting today, informative waiting room displays are being supplied to physicians by LTC Financial Partners LLC, the nation's most experienced lon...
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