Archive for May 17th, 2009

TO COLLECT SPOUSE’S SOCIAL SECURITY, AGE MATTERS

By KELLY GREENE Wall St. Journal May 16, 2009 Ask Encore If both the husband and wife receive separate Social Security benefits on their own earnings, and one dies, does the survivor receive half of the benefit of the deceased partner? Would the survivor get both benefits, or one or the other? —Jean Smith, Dublin, [...]

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“BIG” PHARMA IS OUTSOURCING YOUR HEALTH COST

Posted Fri, 05/15/2009 By Robt. Pear, New York Times In a March 2008 People’s Pharmacy editorial Questions About Quality Of Foreign-Made Drugs, published soon after the heparin recall, the editor says that like tvs and cellphones,  about 40% of medications have been outsourced to China and India. And while the FDA is required every two [...]

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