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Is ‘Chemo Parity’ a Good Idea?

April 28, 2010

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WSJ.com: Health Blog April 27, 2010 8:47 AM by Katherine Hobson Under reimbursement rules, IV chemo counts as a medical benefit, but oral treatments fall under the (usually less comprehensive) drug benefit. Is ‘Chemo Parity’ a Good Idea?

Wellpoint fraud

April 23, 2010

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Shortly after they were diagnosed with breast cancer, each of the women learned that her health insurance had been canceled. There was Yenny Hsu, who lived and worked in Los Angeles. And there was Patricia Reilling, a successful art gallery owner and interior designer from Louisville, Kentucky. Neither of these women… [Read more…]

Little Rock 50 Years Later

September 25, 2007

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The image is among the most iconic in civil-rights history: a dignified black girl in a prim, white-and-black dress marches through a hostile mob intent on keeping her from school. Fifty years after it first flashed around the world, that image retains its power—evoking sorrow, even anger, that one so young would face such cruelty.

“Killing Affirmative Action”

November 19, 2006

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Affirmative action seems to have very little middle ground and nowhere else than Michigan the battle arrays seem to be drawn with more fervor.