Getting health insurance held up by bureaucratic red tape is one thing… but magnetic tape?
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10 Questions To Ask Your Doctor Before Surgery
By 1.9.07
Healthbolt’s got a good list of 10 questions you should ask before undergoing surgical procedure.
Save On Meds With A Simple Question
By 12.22.06
Pay less for drugs by asking your doctor if there’s an older pill that works the same.
Eli Lilly Promoted Drug For Unapproved Use
By 12.18.06
Drugmaker Eli Lilly pushed physicians to prescribe Zyprexa, a drug for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, to patients having neither condition, NYT reports.
New Home Buyer Beware
By 12.14.06
What to look out for when buying a new home: predatory lenders, kickbacks to title insurance companies and super-fun undisclosed terms.
Find A Surgeon Online
By 12.8.06
Just saw this on the news (thank you, Katie Couric): HealthGrades is a website giving consumers unprecedented access to health procedure cost and hospital information.
Liberty Mutual Punishes “Disloyal” Insurance Customer?
By 11.15.06
Frank Pallini thinks his property insurer might have dropped him because he changed his auto policy to another company.
Consumer-Directed Health Plans: Do You Like To Gamble?
By 11.5.06
Recently insurance companies, and George Bush, have been championing a new kind of health-care called “consumer-directed health plans.”
United Healthcare Doesn’t Feel Like Paying For Your Drugs
By 10.29.06
“Your drugs are too expensive.”
In Case Of Nuclear Strike, Your Cellphone Insurance Is Void
By 10.29.06
Your cellphone is not insured against loss in a nuclear crisis or a warzone.
Progressive Insurance. Not.
By 10.24.06
Just because an insurance company has Progressive in their name doesn’t mean they’re any different from the usual penny-pinchers.
Yes, My Skull Candle Melted
By 10.24.06
Amy, who had a dangerous soot spread through her house after a candleholder melted, has a few responses to reader comments.
Save On Insurance By Calling Around. Duh.
By 10.24.06
Spotted this at the often quite good I Will Teach You To Be Rich blog.
$17,000 In Damages After Restoration Hardware Candleholder Melts
By 10.23.06
Everyone knows not to leave the house with a candle burning. Most people also assume that a candleholder will not melt and release a noxious cloud and cause $17,000+ in damage, especially one sold by such a fancy pants place like Restoration Hardware.
