How to Pay for Health Care / Chicago

Topic: Chicago

SAY WHAT? POSITIVE TRENDS IN HEALTH PLAN COSTS?

Rough Notes | 671 days ago

Are health care cost projections finally leveling off for 2009? If you believe the most recent employee benefit consultant surveys, they are - and this time the stabilizing trends may have some staying power. The last time health care cost increases seemed to be slowing down - falling to 10% or lower increases on an annual basis - was during the Clinton administration ...

Suburban hospitals could merge

ABC 7 Chicago (WLS) | 4 hours ago

A merger could be in the works between two suburban hospitals. Crain's Chicago Business reports that Central DuPage and Delnor Community hospitals...

Fighting for all workers

Daily Kos | 6 hours ago

The reasons you might want to be in a union are clear: Better wages: Wages of union members are, on average, 27% higher than those of nonunion...

Court to resume over Asian Carp issue

ABC 7 Chicago (WLS) | 6 hours ago

The battle to keep the Asian Carp from entering Lake Michigan heads back to federal court in Chicago Tuesday. . . Five Great Lakes states are suing...

FDA study tackles cell phone emissions exposure

Newsday | 6 hours ago

Several thousand rats and mice have taken up residence in a $10-million complex at a Chicago laboratory, where they eat, snooze and have their...

Classes start this week for Chicago Public...

ABC 7 Chicago (WLS) | 12 hours ago

Students in the nation's third largest school district have one last day to enjoy their freedom. . . Classes start Tuesday for Chicago Public...

Dinner Cruises on Lake Michigan From Chicago

eHow | 13 hours ago

With architecture that includes the Willis/Sears Tower and John Hancock Center, the Chicago skyline is one of the most famous in the world. A great...

Chicago Jazz Festival gets a makeover – at long last

Chicago Tribune | 13 hours ago

Yes, it's still possible to change your ways at 32 - as the Chicago Jazz Festival just proved. The event, which ended Sunday, had been stuck in a...

Last Exit To GeekDad

Wired: GeekDad | 16 hours ago

courtesy Last Exit To Nowhere. . Geeks love movies. Geeks love T-shirts. Geeks love to express their love of movies on their T-shirts. And the...

Live from Chicago: Outside Wrigley

MetsBlog | yesterday

Posted in MetsBlog. . Instead of going right in to the game today, I watched the first few innings from a bar outside Wrigley Field, to get a feel...

Live from Chicago: Updates from Wrigley Field

MetsBlog | 2 days ago

Posted in MetsBlog. . Today, Ted Berg and I are at Wrigley Field, with plans to go on field before the game, explore the ballpark a bit and take in...