Health Care: As their endowments shrink, hospitals question expansions
Last spring, Glens Falls Hospital was making plans for a new, $26 million emergency department.
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Comprehensive coverage, client care help Metzler Bros. Insurance grow
As the economy endures a full-on recession, businesses cut back production and unemployment claims rise to their highest levels in decades, Kansas City-based Metzler Bros. Insurance is growing and adding staff.
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Opening doors to new treatments
When it comes to fighting breast cancer, Angela Brodie believes in going straight to the source.
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‘Play-or-pay’ taxes central to Senate health care plan
Mandates are a key part of a universal health care plan that will be considered next year in the Senate.
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Report: As economy worsens, many face growing medical debt
The proportion of working-age Americans with medical bill problems or who are paying off medical debt climbed from 34 percent to 41 percent between 2005 and 2007, according to a comprehensive national study.
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