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Politicians Bet the Farm
Faced with tough budget decisions, many states are turning to gambling as an answer to their economic woes. But most end up getting far more than they bargained for.
March 10, 2008 |
By Barbara T. Dreyfuss
What Hedge Funds Risk
Increasingly, everyone's money -- that's what. Nobody rides herd on these unregulated investment funds, which now manage a tidy $1.5 trillion.
June 17, 2007 |
By Barbara T. Dreyfuss
Evasive Maneuvers
How the Justice Department is teaching other agencies to sidestep congressional investigations.
February 9, 2007 |
By Barbara T. Dreyfuss |
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Doctoring Health Care, I
Democrats, business, and labor look to 2008.
December 17, 2006 |
By Barbara T. Dreyfuss
A Wedge in the Door
Look beyond the Part D debacle -- the Bush administration is now taking aim at Medicare's status as a universal entitlement, by indexing premiums to income.
October 24, 2006 |
By Barbara T. Dreyfuss |
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Inside Job
How Humana and other insurance companies rigged the Medicare prescription drug plan.
August 11, 2006 |
By Barbara T. Dreyfuss |
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Medicare Woes
Think the new Medicare drug plan rollout is a mess? Things are only going to get worse.
February 22, 2006 |
By Barbara T. Dreyfuss |
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Tax Breakup
Conservative think-tankers face an unexpected opponent: employers.
December 18, 2005 |
By Barbara T. Dreyfuss
Déjà Flu
We're on the cusp of another flu vaccine shortage -- and Bush's FDA deserves the blame.
November 14, 2005 |
By Barbara T. Dreyfuss |
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Eagle-Eyed Regulators
In a slam at the Bush administration's deregulatory stance, Congress reasserts FDA authority over cosmetic contact lenses.
November 2, 2005 |
By Barbara T. Dreyfuss |
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Overbilled
The D.C. city council tries another innovative strategy for keeping prescription-drug costs down.
September 28, 2005 |
By Barbara T. Dreyfuss |
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Swept Away
The government still hasn't figured out how to provide health insurance to the displaced of the Gulf Coast.
September 15, 2005 |
By Barbara T. Dreyfuss |
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Patents Pending
A D.C. official takes a renegade approach to get lower-priced drugs for residents.
February 23, 2005 |
By Barbara T. Dreyfuss |
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A Dirty Job
Mike Leavitt may be gearing up to do the White House's bidding: dismantling health insurance for low-income Americans across the country.
February 2, 2005 |
By Barbara T. Dreyfuss |
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Almost Heaven?
The pharmaceutical lobby is taking its fight to the states. But in West Virginia, they fought back.
January 14, 2005 |
By Barbara T. Dreyfuss
The Illness Department
What role did the FDA play in the vaccine crisis?
October 29, 2004 |
By Barbara T. Dreyfuss |
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Cheap Trick
Bush's health savings accounts are a bargain -- provided you never get injured or sick. Bush's health savings accounts are a bargain -- provided you never get injured or sick.
August 13, 2004 |
By Barbara T. Dreyfuss
The Seduction
The shocking story of how AARP backed the Medicare bill
May 12, 2004 |
By Barbara T. Dreyfuss
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