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• Fired is the New Retired

  …with the Conference Board, agrees that older workers are often stereotyped. Obesity," she observed, "is more of a health - care cost than age for those between 30 and 50." And older workers show every bit as much stamina as younger workers when called …

  By Ellis Cose

  10/29/2009Culture
• The Anti-Corporate GOP?

  …announcement made for good PR, but it was also strategically savvy: a mandate would raise retail competitor Target's health - care costs . The move put Wal-Mart in the GOP's sights. One top Republican legislator, who declined to be named because the conversation …

  10/28/2009Politics
• Public Plan Mirage

  …liberals. Facing the low-cost public plan, private insurers would hold down their own premiums, the argument goes. Health - care costs for everyone would moderate. Government subsidies to provide universal coverage would be cheaper. By some estimates …

  By Robert J. Samuelson

  10/26/2009Newsweek - Robert J. Samuelson
• Hope Springs Eternal

  …eligible for Medicare at 40 rather than 65?) As elected officials posture and temporize, families are bankrupted by health - care costs and forgo treatment they can't afford. Statistical measures of the national health, from life expectancy to infant …

  By Anna Quindlen

  10/24/2009Politics
• Bending the Curve─The Wrong Way

  Obama administration officials have repeatedly emphasized the need to "bend the curve" of health -care costs . Reducing increases in health spending, they argued, was essential to controlling future federal budget deficits and making

  By Robert J. Samuelson

  10/23/2009Blogs

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