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• Shooter's rampage shows pitfalls for mentally ill
The laws were designed to protect the rights of the individual, explains David Weston, chief of mental health services with the mental health division of the Washington Department of Social and Health Services.
• McCain Woos the Undecided
My health-care plan will make it easier for more Americans to find and keep good health-care insurance. His plan will force small businesses to cut jobs, reduce wages, and force families into a government-run health-care system where a bureaucrat ...
• Boeing Workers Are on the Brink
While Boeing is willing to give the union respectable wage hikes -- equaling 5% in the first year and 3% in each of the following two years, it is demanding that workers pick up more of the tab for their health-care costs.
• U.S. unemployment rate hits a five-year high
Those losses swamped employment gains in the government, education and health. Job losses at all private employers — not including government — came to 101,000 in August.
• Study: Workers to pay more for health care
NEW YORK - Get ready for another hike in copays and deductibles. A survey being released Thursday by the Mercer consulting firm found 59 percent of companies intend to keep down rising health care costs in 2009 by raising workers’ deductibles ...