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I signed up for Medicare last month. In addition to standard Medicare, I added Part D, the prescription drug benefit. My 2013  costs, if t...

This week Pope Francis spoke out against the cult of money. Here is how Catholic News Service's Carol Glatz summarized his remarks : ...

(Where print publishing is headed) My husband has spent over 30 years editing magazines. His company now publishes fewer than half the n...

[Working till she drops] A couple of years ago my 40-something cardiologist earnestly told me that the Social Security/Medicare problem ...

[Africa, with Tanzania highlighted] I spent all day Monday in an outpatient clinic (I'm fine; thanks for asking). I met a lot of nur...

I'm having trouble understanding today's news about "Florida based restaurant boss John Metz, who runs approximately 40 Denny...

Art by Stephen Slade Tien via Wikimedia Commons I freely admit what you already know: I am a wonk . So when the book I'm reading, Th...

"You shouldn't have let his health insurance lapse." For just a moment I thought Romney was actually moving toward the mid...

For details, check out "The Dog Maxed Out My Credit Card" from the November 2, 2011, Wall Street Journal.

We'll be hearing a lot about Medicare between now and November. Obama wants to tweak it. Romney wants to reinvent it. Everyone who wan...

The U.S. Supreme Court Maybe the Affordable Care Act is constitutional and maybe it's not. If it turns out to be constitutional, may...

Today's New York Times  carried a thought-provoking op-ed by David Brooks called "The Materialist Fallacy." I recommend tha...

Yesterday a provision in the Affordable Care Act went into effect: health insurers' profits must now be limited. In response, Rick U...

Last week two articles highlighted America's split over health-care policy. One likened the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force* to a ...

Emailed response to one of my many complaints to the FCC I'm getting more and more annoyed at the alleged enforcers of the Do Not Cal...

In a s peech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce  two days ago, President Obama appealed to some 200 business leaders to act responsibly. "...