Insurance: Any Way You Want, as Long as It's My Way

Wall Street Journal

Unlike almost any other business, medical practices have almost no control over what they can charge for service, but must pay the market rate for loans, supplies, rent, salaries, equipment, employee benefits, education costs and malpractice insurance. ...

Workers' comp rates press upward

San Diego Union Tribune, CA

But it looks like the roller-coaster track is heading back up again, with the Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California a board largely composed of insurance industry representatives pressing for a 23.7 percent rate increase, ...

Hawaii paying nearly twice market rate for solar power

Honolulu Advertiser, HI

However, any such cost savings would not reduce the rates the state pays for solar power. It's unclear how much money the state may save using solar power versus conventionally generated electricity during the next 20 years. ...

Understanding Iran

BusinessWorld Online, Philippines

At any rate , the locus of foreign policy is in the US executive, and the Congress resolution is non-binding. But the dominant ruling faction in Iran does not wish to antagonize the US either. That the ayatollah blasted Britain as Iran's "most evil" ...

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City against power, water rate hikes

Visayan Daily Star, Philippines

BACIWA is proposing a rate increase from 2009 to 2016 for its expansion projects, beginning with 30 percent this year. Sayson said if there will be any rate increase, it should not be 30 percent at the onset as proposed by BACIWA. ...

Social knowledge

Examiner.com

The reason for the increase in skepticism cannot lie in the more enlightened nature of this generation (the idea is laughable, given the state of education in this country, at any rate ). Intellectual developments are never purely intellectual ...

Verbatim 'We simply cannot cut enough to balance the budget.'

Philadelphia Inquirer, PA

Next, I am proposing to raise our state income tax, the nation's second-lowest, from its current rate of 3.07 percent to 3.57 percent. Even with this increase, Pennsylvania will have the third-lowest personal income tax rate in the nation. ...

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Rendell's tax hike shell game Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

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Great Lakes require great changes

Detroit Free Press, United States

We've wasted too much time and money on compromises that have merely slowed the rate at which we are destroying our environment. It's time for environmentalists to admit that the so-called management efforts for the Great Lakes have been a disastrous ...

Healthcare reform puts a price on quality of life

Los Angeles Times, CA

In any event, Grosse told me, since the figure has been used since the 1990s, it's in serious need of updating. Given the rate of medical inflation in the interim, the sum would be the equivalent of roughly $1000 today, and Grosse believes that still ...

Doctor report cards: Patients rate physicians on Web, but is it ...

The Coloradoan, CO

The most comments for any local doctor is six, with four positive comments and two negative. Comments on ratemds.com and others are anonymous, one of the biggest gripes among physicians who say disgruntled patients can hide behind the veil of anonymity ...

Social Security tax

Baltimore Sun, United States

The reason you probably pay more in Social Security tax than in income tax is that most people's income tax rate is only 15 percent. What's more, the income tax system allows you a wide variety of deductions, the most important of which are personal ...

Sales Tax Proposed As Alternative to State, Federal Income Tax American Chronicle

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Tribe is just boring

Akron Beacon Journal, OH

At any rate , I wondered if the first set of numbers would stand up, now that more of the schedule has been played. Through the series against the Milwaukee Brewers that ended Wednesday, Garko had started four games in a row five times. ...

USA Rewind

Washington Post, United States

Casey, how do you rate a person who was hired to waste time? Bob: It took you this ridiculous situation to actually attempt to play offense in this tournament. None of your bonehead decisions seemed to matter today. Wow, I just wanted to see us give ...

Guns from America fuel Jamaica's gang wars

The Associated Press

With arsenals to rival police firepower, the gangs are blamed for 90 percent of the homicides in Jamaica 1611 last year, about 10 times more than the US rate , relative to population. Unlike in Mexico, the vast majority of Jamaican guns seized are ...

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Scouting combines for elementary kids? They may be on to something

SI.com

Note: Out-of-town guests can enjoy a JuniorRank.com rate of $99 a night -- including breakfast! -- at the Hilton Garden Inn in Hoffman Estates, Ill. (This is not to be confused with the Chicago Hilton, site of the climactic final scene between Dr. ...

Rising unemployment: Any end in sight?

KVBC, NV

Last month, the unemployment rate hit 11.3 percent statewide. That's nearly a full percentage point higher than the previous month and well above the national average of 9.4 percent. And this is the highest since Nevada began keeping records in 1976 ...

The Rebound Guy

At The Hive

In three NBA seasons, he's posted rate splits of 13.3/20.6/17.0, numbers any team would drool over. I have a lot of confidence in the translation of the top rebound figures. So who's up there this year? Numbers are tabulated below, with the inclusion ...

What You Need To Do To Get The Best Mortgage Rate To Buy A Home

Nurido, Austria

Many companies are offering the best rate mortgage rates, but even if you do go to another lender instead of your bank, you may still find you are not any better off. The reason is in the packages. Mortgage loans to buy a home come in many forms. ...

US 30-Year Mortgage Rate Witnesses Small Rise Visit Bulgaria

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The Unbuilding of Frank Gehry

New York Magazine,  USA

In his desire to believe, he made the mistake of trusting Bruce Ratner, or at any rate got himself so enmeshed that the developer's company, Forest City Ratner, once represented 35 percent of Gehry's business. When I visited the architect at his Los ...

Atlantic Yards won't be derailed Crain's New York Business

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Stimulus Money Not Creating Jobs in SC Yet

News Channel 7, SC

Our hope is that money that's coming in now will, but we certainly aren't seeing any evidence that jobs are being created, Eckstrom says. Gov. Mark Sanford's spokesman, Joel Sawyer, says that while the state's unemployment rate is rising, ...