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Shop around. Different carriers have different areas of expertise, and they price coverage accordingly. If you're a diabetic, you'll probably get a better rate at John Hancock than Genworth; if you've had a stroke, you'll probably get a better deal at MedAmerica than John Hancock. So get bids from at least three carriers, and see if long-term-care insurance makes sense for you. The cost of care is only going to get higher...
Central Texas is a land of dry grass, live oaks and the slow, brown waters of the Trinity and the Brazos, sanctified by the likes of John Wayne and Glenn Ford. Folks there would give Bush a third term if they could; you could see it in the way Texas delegates at the Republican Convention whooped and waved their matching straw cowboy hats whenever his name was mentioned in St. Paul, Minn...
...germs swept in: Iraq, foreclosures, $4 gas. So you can't blame the GOP for trying to seal away its afflicted leader like the boy in the bubble. From now on, candidates in swing states won't go near him without a mask, gloves and a bottle of Purell. John McCain, the party's nominee, is promising to fumigate Washington. Add one more metaphor of sickness: the lame duck...
This year Armstrong has tried to make cancer an election issue. He got Senator John McCain to attend the Livestrong Cancer Summit earlier this year. McCain, a skin-cancer survivor, committed to increasing spending but not to a specific amount. Senator Barack Obama has committed to doubling the budget for fighting cancer as part of a broader reform of health care. Certainly the frail, failing Senator Ted Kennedy's dramatic speech at the Democratic Convention, coming in the midst of his battle with brain cancer, underscored the point...
...standards could cost $10.7 billion, a 1,200% increase. Before Gustav, Jindal had convened a science panel to review Morganza-to-the-Gulf, and momentum has been building for an alternative alignment that would protect Houma without cutting off wetlands. "We're still vulnerable, no question about it," says John Lopez, who designed the alternative plan for the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation. "We just have to stop making ourselves more vulnerable...