Caribbean Leaders Join Forces Over Crisis - Time

(ST. JOHN'S, Antigua) — Caribbean leaders said Saturday that they will push regional banks to provide more loans to builders and exporters, boosting jobs and trade to counter the world economic crisis. Leaders from Antigua, Belize and the Bahamas ...

An assessment of McCain's and Obama's health insurance proposals - Hartford Courant

When it came to promoting his health insurance initiative, Sen. John McCain's timing seemed unfortunate. In an article in Contingencies, an actuarial journal, the Republican presidential nominee highlighted a central tenet of his plan -- deregulating ...

Inching along: Insurance industry’s shift on health care is a sign ... - Beaver County Times

Just talking about national health care is an indication of how broken Congress is. Basically, the topic has been ignored for the last eight years, even as the health care in America has been imploding. Economically, health care in the United States ...

Health Plans See Ups And Downs In Q3 - Worcester Business Journal

Third-quarter results for the state’s health insurance companies are a mixed bag. While some companies made much more money than they did in Q3 of 2007, others saw their profits drop just as significantly. Fallon Community Health Plan in Worcester ...

Health Care Plan Costs Up 7.1% - Worcester Business Journal

Massachusetts employers saw the cost of their health benefits increase by 7.1 percent and many will respond by increasing their employees’ share of the burden, according to the Mercer 2008 National Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health Plans. The ...