Of a Single-Payer System, the Parent Trap & Living Longer: What We’re Reading

Commentary March 08, 2012 at 11:00 PM
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Health insurance is going to change, but it might not get better. Read more

The Obama administration is courting the Supreme Court's conservative judges, hoping to save health care reform. Read more

How do successful people get that way? Research has turned up a few answers. Read more

Many Americans are living without access to dental care, and even if the treatment is easy to come by, many don't have insurance to cover it. Read more

Meet members of the sandwich generation: raising children, dealing with elderly parents — and sometimes feeling as if they've bitten off more than they can chew. Read more

Does it make sense to buy life insurance for a child? Read more

Ever so quietly, insurance-industry number crunchers are tossing aside the old statistical models and life tables. Read more

A 2000 agreement between the U.S. and Germany was supposed to resolve all Holocaust-era claims with European insurers through an international insurance commission, yet tens of thousands of people with claims have gotten nothing, survivors' groups and advocates say. Read more

Here's one more thing to add to the list of boomer concerns: demographics. Read more

The Spoof (tagline: "Always there with the funniest spoof headlines") reports findings that one of the UK's leading life insurance providers have been fleecing their customers. Read more

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