The News Review:
- The latest buzz for beekeepers is crop insurance
- Changes in the ways your bank accounts are insured
- p-Ed Contributors | Transitions Health Care With a Few Bucks Left …
- Pinched patients may forgo care
- Hours Extended To Seek Unemployment Benefits
- Tories ‘may unveil tax cut plans’
The latest buzz for beekeepers is crop insurance
The Associated Press
(AP) — The buzz in the honeybee industry these days is about crop insurance — now available to beekeepers for the first time. Some say the new program is expensive and amounts to betting on the weather. thers say it’s better than having no protection at all. “In general we think it’s great” said Troy Fore executive director of the American Beekeeping Federation. “We’ve been trying to get this for years.
Related from Managementmonster: The latest buzz for beekeepers is crop insurance
Changes in the ways your bank accounts are insured
Newsday NY
The financial system bailout legislation recently enacted boosted limits on federal insurance for bank deposits increasing the amount of cash you can stash in a bank account with every dollar fully insured by the government. And the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has made it easier to structure your accounts in a way that maximizes your total coverage. Here’s a rundown of the changes: Related links.
p-Ed Contributors | Transitions Health Care With a Few Bucks Left …
New York Times United States
That includes direct health care programs like Medicare plus insurance for federal employees and the cost of excluding employer health-care contributions from workers’ taxable incomes. If present trends continue in 10 years the number will almost double. President-elect Barack bama has proposed some good ideas for cutting health care costs but his proposals will not create the savings we need. He has suggested for example that electronic medical records could save Americans nearly $80 billion per year. But information technology cannot bring meaningful savings if it is used in a health care system that regularly rewards waste and punishes efficiency as ours does.
Pinched patients may forgo care
Indianapolis Star United States
While some patients are kept away from doctors’ offices because they lack health insurance others have coverage but face thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket costs from co-payments and high deductibles. Deanna Willis is seeing in her patients the symptoms of a bad economy. “People tend to forgo care” said Willis an assistant professor with the Indiana University School of Medicine.
Hours Extended To Seek Unemployment Benefits
KEYC MN
The Minnesota department of employment and economic development will have the self-service system on the internet open the next four Sundays. Those seeking unemployment benefits will be able to apply between 6 a.
Tories ‘may unveil tax cut plans’
BBC News UK
In a Sunday Times interview George sborne indicated a Tory government would not implement Labour’s planned increase in National Insurance in 2011. He also suggested he would aim to cut income tax on savings and the tax burden on the over-65s. His remarks hint at a change of tack for the Tories who had said the credit crunch forced tax cuts off the agenda. The Tories have trailed Gordon Brown and the Chancellor Alistair Darling in polls ranking economic competence despite the downturn and been taunted by Labour of being the “do nothing” party. But in the New Year the party are expected to fight back to try to regain the initiative.