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Disability insurance can save family finances
Chicago TribuneWhat would you say is your most valuable financial asset: your house, your car, your retirement account? For most people of working age, the answer isn't in their golden eggs, but in the goose that laid them: Their most valuable asset is their ability to...Tags: Employment, Career and Workplace, Health, Consumers, Insurance
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Medicaid cuts threaten nursing home reforms, advocates say
The $1.6 billion in Medicaid cuts passed by state lawmakers angered a key legislator and some advocates who contend the legislation will undercut nursing home reforms enacted two years ago and delay improved care in the facilities. But state officials...
Tags: Health, Illinois Governor, Economy, Business and Finance, Nursing Homes, Pat Quinn
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Record tax hike isn't fixing Illinois' problems
Sixteen months ago, Democrats pushed through the largest income tax increase in Illinois history, an unpopular decision that was billed as a crucial step to put state government on the road to financial recovery. Yet last week lawmakers made deep cuts in...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Democratic Party, City Club of Chicago, Parties and Movements, Health Insurance Cost
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Many hospitals, doctors offer cash discount for medical bills
A Long Beach hospital charged Jo Ann Snyder $6,707 for a CT scan of her abdomen and pelvis after colon surgery. But because she had health insurance with Blue Shield of California, her share was much less: $2,336. Then Snyder tripped across one of the...
Tags: Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd., Personal Service, Health, Hospitals and Clinics, Insurance
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House OKs cigarette tax hike
SPRINGFIELD — Smokers are likely to pay $1 more a pack after the Illinois House on Friday approved a cigarette tax increase to avoid even deeper cuts to health care for the poor.
The House has long been the stumbling block to higher tobacco taxes,...Tags: Chicago Tribune, Democratic Party, Health, Hospitals and Clinics, U.S. Senate
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Seniors grow old under debt
Norman Harvel is growing old under a mountain of debt.
At 60, Harvel faces medical and credit card bills topping $80,000. Yet Harvel is unable to work, having been injured at a job site more a decade ago. The former building maintenance worker now...Tags: Research, Physical Conditions, Teaching and Learning, Health Insurance Cost, Bankruptcy
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The Morning Call Sports Calendar
Items for the calendar must be typed and received at least 10 days in advance of your proposed publishing date at: Sports Calendar, The Morning Call, P.O. Box 1260, Allentown, PA 18105. They may be faxed to the sports department at 610-820-8654 or sent...Tags: Interior Policy, Music, Jimmy Rollins, Shamrock, Lehigh Valley Hospital
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High cigarette taxes won't work in Pennsylvania: too many roads
There was good news a couple of days ago for Kiwi smokers. A plan to increase cigarette prices to $100 a pack ($75 U.S.) has been scrapped, and they will have to pay only $20 a pack ($15 U.S.) by 2016. New Zealand, already with some of the highest prices...Tags: Companies and Corporations, New Zealand, Economy, Business and Finance, Organized Crime, Tobacco Products
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Good start. Now finish.
Faced with what he labeled a "rendezvous with reality," Gov. Pat Quinn has confronted Illinois legislators with an ultimatum: Reform runaway Medicaid and pension spending or subject the least creditworthy state in America to even more costly bond rating...
Tags: John J Cullerton, Health, Illinois Governor, Pension and Welfare, Health Insurance Cost
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Voice of the People, May. 26
Concussion rules It sometimes takes tremendous tragedy to change ideas embedded in our culture. A prime example of this is the "warrior mentality" instilled in football players from when they first strap on PeeWee league shoulder pads. This culture...Tags: National Football League, Football, Health, Sports, Concussion
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Home-value insurance: We're not convinced it's a good idea
Real Estate MattersSeveral weeks ago, we were asked whether it made sense to buy insurance on a property's value that would pay off if the value declined. We suggested that buying property value insurance when property prices are the lowest they have been relative to income...Tags: Religion and Belief, Values, Services and Shopping, Property, Real Estate Sellers
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Pressure on the picket line
Almost every day for nearly three weeks, Jon Butler rallied with fellow union strikers on the picket line.
Butler was among roughly 800 union members who walked out of the Caterpillar Inc. plant in Joliet on May 1, rejecting a proposed six-year...Tags: Chicago Tribune, College Sports, Heavy Engineering, Companies and Corporations, Economy, Business and Finance
May 28, 2012
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May 27, 2012
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May 25, 2012
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May 26, 2012
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May 26, 2012
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May 27, 2012
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May 26, 2012
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May 25, 2012
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May 27, 2012
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