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Greenberg is more eager to talk about the future. Instead of the government's plan to sell off parts of AIG, he believes the quickest way for taxpayers to recoup billions in federal bailout money is to rebuild the company. "Get AIG back so that it is a taxpayer and an employer again," he says...
...This is particularly true of hospitals, whose emergency rooms are mandated by federal law to provide treatment regardless of a person's ability to pay. That leads to millions of dollars in unpaid medical bills each year. Thus, when providers negotiate contracts with HMOs, for instance, they try to recoup some of those losses by raising prices for insured patients, which in turn leads to higher premiums. Because insurance markets are state-by-state entities with disparate regulations, residents of certain states - such as Montana, West Virginia and Texas - pay a higher hidden tax than others. "A hospital seeks...
...will have even less impact on the company's ailing bottom line, because the Nano's profit margin is tiny, says Vaishali Jajoo, a senior automotive-research analyst at Angel Broking, an investment firm in Mumbai. "It will take at least four to five years to break even" and recoup the company's development costs, she says. There's more profit to be made from fully equipped Nanos with air-conditioning, power windows and upholstered seats, which cost about $3,300. "How they're really going to make money is by selling the high-end version," says Tilak Swarup, general...
...financial system because the government "owns" it. Representative Elijah Cummings, a senior member of the House Oversight Committee who has been looking into AIG for months, said he doesn't believe it's lawful to tax the bonuses just to get them back. "We're going to have to recoup it from the company, and there's going to have to be some type of investigation," he told TIME. (See 10 ideas changing the world right...
...always the first go-to place for financial-fraud survivors trying to recoup lost money. But with the April 15 tax clock ticking, figuring out what to do about recovery, both from taxes and from the Securities Investor Protection Corp. (SPIC), has become a mind-boggling maze for accountants and their Ponzi-victim clients. At a hearing yesterday, Madoff pleaded guilty to his decades-long crime, was handcuffed and ordered to jail. Sentencing is scheduled for June, but he could potentially be sentenced to 150 years on 11 counts. (Read "The Madoff Hearing: A Guilty Plea, but No Catharsis...