Sunday, February 22, 2009
The boom has been lowered, the axe has fallen, the pink slip has landed on your desk.
No matter how grim your financial situation may be, you can’t just ignore your bills and creditors. Prompt action is crucial: Let your creditors know you are having difficulties before you begin missing payments.
Financial experts say that when money is tight, you must prioritize what bills need paying first.
Ask yourself Read the rest of this entry »

Ontario is facing “difficult choices” when it comes to health-care spending as the province’s economic problems deepen, Health Minister David Caplan warned today.
The government will have to strike the “right balance” in deciding which health-care projects will take priority and which ones may have to sit on the backburner, he said.
“The choices and the trade-offs are – given that you can’t do everything or to the extent that you would like Read the rest of this entry »

“Academic advisers say that all the time,” he says. “You’d do it in more subtle kinds of ways, but I have directly told kids myself, ‘You can be in this major if you want to be, but if you want to play football, or want to play basketball, you may want to look at this major.’ And that’s what happens.”
These days Ridpath is an assistant professor of sport administration at Ohio University and a member of the Drake Group, a national network of faculty Read the rest of this entry »

A fundamental axiom in ethics is that the means to achieve a noble goal must be dignified as well. Otherwise, the means can become a moral minefield.
President-elect Barack Obama’s ambitious plan for health care reform has noble goals: insuring our 46 million uninsured by expanding eligibility for public programs, enabling affordability for low-income families, offering income-related subsidies, and containing medical costs; mandating coverage despite Read the rest of this entry »

Ont. facing ‘tough choices’ in health care: Caplan
TORONTO — Ontario is facing “difficult choices” when it comes to health-care spending as the province’s economic problems deepen, Health Minister David Caplan warned Thursday. The government will have to strike the “right balance” in deciding which health-care projects will take priority and which ones may have to sit on the back-burner, he said.
“The choices and the trade-offs are — given Read the rest of this entry »

NEW YORK — Cynthia Casey’s husband was in the hospital with a failing liver when she was laid off in September, stranding the family without health insurance.
Medical bills were piling up. She had two teenagers to feed and a weekly unemployment check of less than $300.
“The bills just were not getting paid,” said Casey, a 50-year-old resident of Pompano Beach, Fla., who until recently worked as an accounts payable supervisor.
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, Times Staff Writer
Posted: Jan 09, 2009 10:40 AM
Florida was singled out in a report today as one of the roughest states on unemployed workers who are trying to cover their family’s health care needs.
Currently, many workers who lost their jobs are able to continue purchasing the same health care coverage through the COBRA program. But according to a report by Families USA, the cost for that lifeline is prohibitively high for many, especially Read the rest of this entry »

FRIDAY, Feb. 6 (HealthDay News) — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will face tough challenges following her surgery on Thursday for early-stage pancreatic cancer, experts say.
At this point, it’s not clear exactly what type of pancreatic cancer Ginsburg has, but the odds suggest pancreatic adenocarcinoma, which accounts for about 85 percent of all cases and is a far deadlier malignancy than neuroendocrine pancreatic cancer.
“The Read the rest of this entry »

Taken literally, the idiom “tighten you belt” means it’s time to cut back on your strict bacon diet in lean economic times. A
can help.
The concept, developed by Brooklyn-based
, utilizes a 3-disc adjustment mechanism to dial in the user’s net income and estimated cost of living. The resulting calculation determines where the next hole in the belt will be punched. In other words, it’s a physical representation of how much you need to save—in Read the rest of this entry »

shows up for a confirmation hearing on Thursday, senators are likely to grant him all the courtesies due a former Senate majority leader.
But that does not mean Mr. Daschle should expect only softball questions. Lawmakers will most likely question him sharply about one of the most contentious aspects of President-elect
plan to compete with private insurers.
No other proposal so clearly defines the political and philosophical differences between Read the rest of this entry »