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Home care workers may get minimum wage, overtime
Jeff Tyler Feb 2, 2012
The administration's proposal could help a growing industry retain workers. But some say high labor costs could limit care for the elderly and disabled.
Plan B could go O.T.C.
Bob Moon Dec 7, 2011
Today, the FDA decides whether to sell the morning after pill over-the-counter. Over-the-counter drugs can often make drug makers a lot more money than prescriptions.
The end of Medicare open enrollment for the year
Gregory Warner Dec 7, 2011
Today is the last day to choose a Medicare plan -- the end of so-called open enrollment. What does that mean for insurance customers?
On World AIDS Day, generics lacking
Bob Moon Dec 1, 2011
Activists are using the date to push for generic AIDS drugs, but the generics might not be economically worth it to companies that would produce it.
Lipitor makes way for generics
Gregory Warner Dec 26, 2011
Pfizer's blockbuster cholesterol drug loses patent protection December 1. It could have happened sooner.
Poverty numbers among elderly rise
Chris Farrell Feb 2, 2012
Higher health care costs could be what's pushing more of the elderly into poverty.
Higher premiums for unhealthy lifestyles
Gregory Warner Dec 26, 2011
More employers are charging overweight workers or those who smoke more for health insurance.
The Supreme Court takes up health care reform
Gregory Warner Dec 26, 2011
It will decide whether it's legal to force people to buy health insurance. Big and small businesses hang in the balance.
Animated Short: The Amazing Health Care Arms Race
Gregory Warner Oct 14, 2011
At the crossroads of our national debate about jobs and our national debate about health care debt...
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