News tagged with plans
Cut-rate prepaid plans shake up wireless industry
Apr 20, 2009 |
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(AP) -- As wireless carriers start reporting first-quarter results this week, investors will be looking at the effects of some spectacular price cuts for prepaid cell phone service.
Year-end bonus is an incentive to cheat
Dec 08, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- You don't have to look far these days to find examples of corporate scandals involving fraud. But Judi McLean Parks, the Reuben C. and Anne Carpenter Taylor Professor of Organizational Behavior at Olin Business ...
Luck gave dinosaurs their edge
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 11, 2008 |
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By comparing early dinosaurs to their closest competitors, the curuotarsans, Steve Brusatte of the American Museum of Natural History and colleagues have found that dinosaurs had no special ability to dominate ...
Proposal would require all to have health coverage
May 14, 2009 |
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(AP) -- House Democrats are crafting a plan that would require all Americans to carry health insurance and would help families making less than $88,000 pay the premiums. Employers, too, would have to help foot the bill.
White House seeks health plan compromise
Apr 15, 2009 |
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Delving into the murky metrics of financial risk
Feb 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The way J. Michael Collins sees it, United States consumers aren’t necessarily less informed about financial risk than consumers from other industrialized nations. What Americans do have, ...
'Credit Crunch' Will Hit Retirees in Unequal Ways
Oct 09, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- How severely retirees will be affected by the continuing financial crisis and subsequent "credit crunch" depends to a considerable extent on the kinds of retirement plans they rely on for retirement income, ...
Redundancy Reduces Birth Rates of Highly-Skilled: Losing a Job Can Ruin Plans to Start a Family
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 17, 2009 |
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Highly skilled women who have lost their job tend not to realise their plans to start a family. This is the clear finding of a major study conducted by the University of Linz with support from the Austrian Science Fund FWF. ...
Health overhaul draws groups' competing demands
May 10, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Patients and doctors. Small businesses and multinationals. Retirees, workers and insurance companies.
Extra payments to Medicare Advantage plans to total $11.4 billion in 2009
May 04, 2009 |
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Private Medicare Advantage (MA) plans will be paid $11.4 billion more in 2009 than what the same beneficiaries would have cost in the traditional Medicare fee-for-service program, according to a new report released today ...
Low-income families with sick children often enrolled in high-deductible health care plans
Mar 30, 2009 |
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High-deductible health plans are increasingly used by healthy people who are unlikely to incur high medical expenses. But they also end up enrolling many low-income, vulnerable families, finds a study of Massachusetts families ...
New health reform strategy would insure everyone, improve health and slow spending growth
Feb 19, 2009 |
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A comprehensive set of insurance, payment, and system reforms could guarantee affordable health insurance coverage, improve health outcomes, and slow the growth of health spending by $3 trillion by the end of the next decade, ...
With mental health insurance, price matters
Dec 23, 2008 |
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More people who need mental health services will seek follow-up care if the price is right, Brown University researchers have found.
Nearly half of US states fail on emergency plan communication, new study shows
Oct 23, 2008 |
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Seven years after Sept. 11, and in the wake of many major natural disasters such as forest fires, hurricanes and flooding, nearly half of U.S. states either have no state-level emergency plan or do not provide it readily ...
