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
Healthbolt’s got a good list of 10 questions you should ask before undergoing surgical procedure.
Save On Meds With A Simple Question
Pay less for drugs by asking your doctor if there’s an older pill that works the same.
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Eli Lilly Promoted Drug For Unapproved Use
Drugmaker Eli Lilly pushed physicians to prescribe Zyprexa, a drug for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, to patients having neither condition, NYT reports.
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New Home Buyer Beware
What to look out for when buying a new home: predatory lenders, kickbacks to title insurance companies and super-fun undisclosed terms.
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Find A Surgeon Online
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.
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Liberty Mutual Punishes “Disloyal” Insurance Customer?
Frank Pallini thinks his property insurer might have dropped him because he changed his auto policy to another company.
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Consumer-Directed Health Plans: Do You Like To Gamble?
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
“Your drugs are too expensive.”
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In Case Of Nuclear Strike, Your Cellphone Insurance Is Void
Your cellphone is not insured against loss in a nuclear crisis or a warzone.
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Yes, My Skull Candle Melted
Amy, who had a dangerous soot spread through her house after a candleholder melted, has a few responses to reader comments.
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Save On Insurance By Calling Around. Duh.
Spotted this at the often quite good I Will Teach You To Be Rich blog.
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$17,000 In Damages After Restoration Hardware Candleholder Melts
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.