early a year ago, I had the honor of delivering the Democratic radio address to a national audience. It was a tremendous privilege to step up to the microphone and speak to Americans about our national health care crisis.
I’m not an elected leader. I’m a child care provider and the mom of a family that [...]
The economic slowdown has swelled the ranks of people without health insurance. But now it is also threatening millions of people who have insurance but find that the coverage is too limited or that they cannot afford their own share of medical costs.
Even many of the 158 million people covered by employer health insurance are [...]
Then Richard had to leave his job as an executive in the high-tech field to care for his wife.
COBRA insurance — at a cost of $977 a month — is getting the Simpsonville couple through now. But they worry what will happen once that runs out. Will there be a new job with insurance, and [...]
RENO, Nev. - Citing concerns that “passion and prejudice” inflated the verdict, a judge Tuesday slashed a $134 million jury award to three Nevada women who claimed a drug made by Wyeth caused their breast cancer.
Washoe County District Judge Robert Perry granted the drugmaker’s motion to find the damages excessive. He ordered them reduced to [...]
The wife of a Utah County sheriff’s deputy portrayed her husband Friday as both the victim of a man who wanted to fight him at a movie theater and of a “hysterical,” “screaming” woman who attacked him.
“I’ve never been so scared my whole entire life,” [...]
In 1990, he went on holiday to California and never came back. Three months after he arrived on America’s west coast, his tourist visa expired and he became an illegal immigrant; four years later, his British passport ran out. As the years passed by, returning home seemed increasingly out of the question: legally, financially, physically, [...]
