10/27/09
Marketplace for Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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Marketplace for Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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Web site to show out-of-network costs
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has announced the development of a database and Web site that will allow consumers using doctors outside their insurers' networks to compare rates. Nancy Marshall Genzer reports.
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AARP shares position on health reform
AARP lends its name to insurance polices that it brokers and nets millions of dollars from -- and it also supports health care reform. Kai Ryssdal talks to professor James Thurber about whether or not this demonstrates a conflict of interest.
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Has housing market still not hit bottom?
Home prices rose for a third straight month in August. But despite stabilizing signs, a growing number of experts are skeptical that the crashing housing market might finally have hit the bottom. Bob Moon reports.
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Taxes picking up tab for Amtrak losses
A Pew study released today finds that the average government subsidy on an Amtrak ticket is $32. That's four times higher than the subsidy figure Amtrak has come up with. Mitchell Hartman reports.
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Climate change in our own backyards
Marketplace sustainability reporters Sam Eaton and Sarah Gardner discuss the radical changes Americans are seeing to their surroundings as temperatures rise from global warming.
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