Oct 24 Watch Rooting Out Waste in Health Care by Taking Cue From Toyota Assembly Lines Rooting Out Waste in Health Care by Taking Cue From Toyota Assembly Lines… Continue watching
Oct 24 Seven Factors Driving Up Your Health Care Costs There is no one villain in the battle against rising health care costs. Currently, the United States spends more on health care services than any other country, exceeding $2.6 trillion, or about 18 percent of gross domestic product. Most years,… Continue reading
Oct 23 A Few Books That Influenced Paul Solman Economics correspondent Paul Solman. Photo by Elizabeth Shell. Paul Solman frequently answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news here on his Making Sen$e page. Here is Tuesday's query: Brian Mecca: Can you cite two… Continue reading
Oct 23 How to Make Your Hospital Stay Safer and Cheaper: A Checklist EmbedVideo(4783, 482, 304); Elizabeth Bailey made quite a few assumptions when her father developed double vision and needed to see the doctor. She thought that he would receive the proper diagnosis and prescription dosage, to name just two. Continue reading
Oct 22 ‘Little Old Lynn’ Bets Big on Debate BOCA RATON, Fla. -- The presidential candidates aside, if there's one winner of Monday's debate, it may be Lynn University, the small private liberal arts university here that is playing host to the main event. Some of the… Continue reading
Oct 22 Two Takes: Obama vs. Romney Round 3 Voters excited for the final presidential debate cheer during a live broadcast of Hardball with Chris Matthews at the MSNBC stage on the campus of Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla. Photo by Gary Coronado/The Palm Beach Post The third… Continue reading
Oct 22 In Photos: Following Beirut Bombing, Lebanese Mourn the Dead By News Desk Soldiers in Lebanon worked Monday to squelch gunbattles and other violence stemming from Friday's car bombing that killed an intelligence official in the Lebanese capital of Beirut. Chief of Lebanon's police intelligence department, Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan,… Continue reading
Oct 22 ‘If I Marry My Girlfriend in Let’s Say Thailand, Can She Collect Survivor Benefits After I Kick?’ Photo by Irina Sidorenko via Getty Images Today, Social Security expert Larry Kotlikoff answers reader's questions covering issues from retirement, medicare and more Anne:I am 65 and will turn 66 in December. I retired at 63 after being laid… Continue reading
Oct 22 Cuban Missile Crisis: Memories of a Young Reporter President Kennedy announces the Cuba blockade on Oct. 22, 1962, during the Cuban missile crisis. Photo by Keystone/Getty Images. Fifty years ago, on Oct. 22, 1962, the Washington Post landed on my doorstep with big headlines about a crisis… Continue reading
Oct 22 Commentary: At Core, Obama and Romney Close on Foreign Policy President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney meet Monday night in Boca Raton, Fla., to debate foreign policy. Both campaigns see the third and final debate as their best opportunity to reach the public before Election Day. The… Continue reading