Spearfish hospital, insurance fight hurts customers (Rapid City Journal)
Despite having health insurance, Kurt Triscori ended up paying $11,000 out of pocket to save his daughter’s life in August.
10 Tips for Covering Your Assets (Motley Fool via Yahoo! Finance)
How to prepare for life's surprises -- both good and bad.
The weight of truth (Bennington Banner)
Wednesday, November 19 In the Nov. 15-16 weekend edition of the Bennington Banner, I wrote a story about a young man from White Creek, N.Y., named Jason Burdick. The story recounted the past three years of his life and his journey from someone so morbidly obese he could barely leave the house to his current state - a man nearing full recovery and embarking on an amateur boxing career.
FHA-Backed Loans: The New Subprime (BusinessWeek Online via Yahoo! News)
As if they haven't done enough damage. Thousands of subprime mortgage lenders and brokers -- many of them the very sorts of firms that helped create the current financial crisis -- are going strong. Their new strategy: taking advantage of a long-standing federal program designed to encourage homeownership by insuring mortgages for buyers of modest means.
10 Tips for Covering Your Assets (The Motley Fool via Yahoo! News)
Look at the front page of any newspaper on any day, and you'll see stories about events (often unexpected) that changed peoples' lives. Some of these are happy events -- for example, winning a lottery, winning the national spelling bee, or being reunited with your long-lost quadruplet.