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Getting the runaround on long-term care insurance
Rita Corwin, 90, conscientiously paid her premiums for long-term care insurance for 21 years to make sure that if she needed help as she grew older and more fragile, she'd get it. Yet now that she finds herself in a position to require such assistance,...
Tags: MetLife Incorporated, Neck Pain, Bones and Joints, Drugs and Medicines, Health Insurance
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Another surgery — while knee-deep in the insurance swamp
Andrew Fabella, are you out there? Please report to post-op at Keck Hospital of USC early Monday morning. I'm coming back to have the other knee done. That's right, folks, I'm kicking off the new year by getting a partial right knee replacement...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Literature, Hospitals and Clinics, Knee Replacement, Arts and Culture
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Bank of America, Citigroup earnings disappoint investors
NEW YORK — Bank of America Corp.'s and Citigroup Inc.'s lackluster earnings led Wall Street to question how long it will take two of the country's biggest banks to emerge from the shadow of the financial crisis. While BofA's fourth-quarter...
Tags: Litigation, Consumers, Fannie Mae, Financial and Business Services, Banking
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Dodgers interested in 'strategic partner' for Mexico, South Korea
The NFL is not the only kind of football that has been proposed for the Dodger Stadium parking lot. In April, within days of the announcement that Guggenheim Baseball would buy the Dodgers, Lorenzo and Antonio Cue approached one of the new owners, Todd...
Tags: Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Major League Baseball, Dodger Stadium, Baseball, Economy, Business and Finance
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Two healthcare administrators get prison for insurance fraud
L.A. NOWDee Francis, 63, and Rosalinda Rodriguez Landon, 67, were both sentenced after they pleaded guilty in court last week to felony counts including conspiracy, grand theft and insurance fraud, according to a statement from the Orange County district... -
Why not expand Medi-Cal in California?
California's Democratic-controlled Legislature has been an enthusiastic supporter of the 2010 federal healthcare reform law, but it has yet to take advantage of one of the most important provisions: the opportunity to offer Medi-Cal, the state's version...
Tags: Jerry Brown, Productivity, Poverty, Hospitals and Clinics, Health Insurance Cost
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Convicted of insurance fraud, former Amtrak employee flees
L.A. NOWA former Amtrak employee convicted of receiving more than $500,000 in disability and insurance payments after faking injuries has fled to avoid prison, San Diego County prosecutors said Thursday. Wanda Lee Ann Podgurski, 60, was not in Superior Court to..... -
Individual mandate in healthcare was year's top consumer story
This was the year of the healthcare mandate. No other consumer story of 2012 comes close. In a split decision, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. casting the deciding vote, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the cornerstone of President Obama's...
Tags: Barack Obama, John G. Roberts, Jr., Health Insurance Cost, Medicare, Health Care Reform (2009)
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Letters: Obamacare has its backers
Re "Dislodging Obamacare," Opinion, Nov. 30 Michael F. Cannon presents an argument brimming with numbers outlining the costs to states and individuals of various aspects of Obamacare. Absent from his essay are the costs of not implementing it. He...Tags: Investments, Israel, Health Insurance, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Judges
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Keeping California's kids healthy
In a bid to cut the state's healthcare bills, the Brown administration will begin shuttering the Healthy Families insurance program for low-income children on Jan. 1. More than 850,000 kids will be shifted over the course of the year into HMOs that...
Tags: Jerry Brown, Poverty, Dentistry and Dental Health, Personal Income, Health Insurance Cost
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Cut Medicare and Social Security? What's the rush?
The question that normally comes to mind when someone claims to know the future is why he's out hustling rubes for pennies with his purported clairvoyance, instead of using it to make a fortune and retiring to the South Seas. Of course, the answer is...
Tags: Social Security, Economic Indicator, Apple iPhone, IBM, Retirement
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Finding an economic model for high-tech, efficient healthcare
A nagging issue for healthcare reformers is the disincentive for many providers to adopt innovative approaches to care that improve health and cut costs. If you're paid a fee for each service you provide in your office, why would you invest in...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Apple iPhone, Health Insurance Cost, Medical Research, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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