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• Albuquerque Journal, N.M., Winthrop Quigley column
  Sep 6, 2010 — Albuquerque Journal
  Greater supply of medical providers usually leads to greater consumption of care and higher costs. Health Savings Accounts, for example, are supposed to encourage patients to be smarter consumers by making them pay for more of their care out of pocket in return for tax-advantaged savings. Those data don't always reflect the quality of care that is delivered.
• Fund aims to help ex-K9s
  Sep 6, 2010 — The Blade
  The sole responsibility falls onto the adoptive family," Trooper Arnold said. To help other retired law-enforcement dogs and their adoptive owners, Trooper Arnold and Ms. He said he needed to learn about K9 handlers and their dogs to use their work in court against criminals. Mr.
• Cost of health insurance goes up 3%
  Sep 3, 2010 — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
  Since then, health insurance premiums have increased 138% compared with a 31% increase in consumer prices. The cost of single coverage rose 5% to $5,049 this year. And some employers are seeing the results. Wagner Cos., a Milwaukee maker of handrails and components, said its health insurance premiums decreased this year.
• Health insurance is taking a bigger bite from workers' wallets
  Sep 3, 2010 — The Kansas City Star
  Total single coverage cost $5,049, up 5 percent. Since 2005, workers' contributions to premiums have jumped 47 percent -- about $1,300 -- while overall premiums rose 27 percent.
• Firing up the campaign trail for U.S. Senate
  Aug 29, 2010 — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
  Russ Feingold (D-Wis.). And Johnson says his stated goal is to stop the "Obama agenda." It was Feingold's life ambition to get elected to office, Johnson says. If he defeats his two primary opponents -- David Westlake and Stephen Finn -- and then defeats Feingold Nov. 2, he says he will work to repeal the bill as soon as possible. Later, he said, he started Pacur, an Oshkosh plastics company, with his brother-in-law.
• Health-care reform will help young adults get coverage
  Aug 29, 2010 — Richmond Times-Dispatch
  Playing music is his job -- even if it doesn't pay much. Like many people his age, Dixon has no health insurance. Health insurance isn't on his list of priorities with $500 monthly rent, a phone bill, groceries and band costs. Routhier said he believes that everyone has a right to health care but not health insurance.
• Retail store medical clinics a bust in Madison
  Aug 26, 2010 — The Wisconsin State Journal
  Care clinics at Shopko stores near East Towne and West Towne Malls closed June 1. The clinics were franchises from Bellin Health in Green Bay, which developed the model with ShopKo about four years ago. The three Take Care Health clinics in Madison-area Walgreens (NYSE:WAG) stores closed Aug. 1, a company spokesman said Wednesday. Those clinics were in stores at 3710 E. Washington Ave. and 3700 University Ave. in Madison and at 2931 S. Fish Hatchery Road in Fitchburg. Take Care...
• Obama been tough, smart on economy
  Aug 23, 2010 — CNN
  On Wednesday former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, a likely 2012 Presidential contender, gave voice to this on the Boston Globe's editorial page. Still, Romney's notion that the Obama administration is anti-jobs and anti-growth is both wrong and misleading. Mitt Romney should join the effort, and leave behind the over-the-top hyperbole that does nothing but distract and mislead.
• A lesson in health insurance for college students
  Aug 20, 2010 — USA Today
  Others failed to cover prescription drugs or placed limits on drug coverage, Cuomo said. A college health plan should provide catastrophic coverage of at least $250,000 and ideally $500,000, Turner says. College Parents of America, a Virginia-based non-profit, recently launched GradGuard, an individual insurance plan that offers broader coverage than most college plans.