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Family Sells Everything on eBay to Pay Medical Bills

by Amy Hatch, Posted Jan 26th 2009 11:00AM

A Georgia family placed all their worldly goods up for auction on eBay after medical bills for their two sons drained their finances. Gregg and Brittiny Peters have three children, two of whom have severe medical issues: one has Stills Disease, an ...
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Autism Screening On Obama's Health Agenda

by Amy Hatch, Posted Jan 22nd 2009 10:00AM

Autism screening and funding for treatment of the disease is high on President Barack Obama's agenda for the nation's health, and is the only disease or disorder called out on his new website, Whitehouse.gov, taking precedence even over cancer and ...
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Health clauses appearing in prenups

by Jennifer Jordan, Posted Aug 31st 2008 2:04PM

A new trend is on the rise among those about to get married, and it ain't whether or not to wear a sleeveless gown. More often, those signing prenuptial agreements are including health-related clauses in their lists of musts and must nots. What used ...
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Value of medical spending in the United States, 1960-2000

by Heather Craven, Posted Sep 2nd 2006 4:00PM

An article in this week's New England Journal of Medicine reported that it is. The authors estimated life expectancy in 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, and 2000 for four age groups. To control for the influence of non medical factors on survival, they ...
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If you health care costs are high now, just wait awhile...

by Heather Craven, Posted Aug 26th 2006 6:00PM

An article in the New York Times reports that some economists believe health care will become an increasingly significant economic force in the next several years as a growing percentage of the gross domestic product is spent on medical services and ...
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