It Stinks To Be An American Woman, Why You're Losing Friends, $100 'Dark Knight' Tickets And More

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Why It Stinks To Be An American Woman

Among advanced countries, the United States may be one of the worst places to live when it comes to health care, especially if you're a woman.

Of American women ages 19 to 64, 43 percent skipped seeing a doctor or didn't take medicine due to costs, according to a 2010 survey by the Commonwealth Fund highlighted in a study released last week. This was the highest percentage of all 11 countries studied.

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	Claire Diaz-Ortiz: How to Get a Job: A True Story (Part 3) Being a temp isn't necessarily the be-all, end-all. Temps are hardly guaranteed long-term contracts or companies, or even short-term contracts that turn into full-time gigs. So it's a gamble. But it is a gamble that sometimes works.
	Ellen Schloemer: Plain English, or Greek? The foreclosure review materials scored ZERO readability -- the only documents I know of that score that low are IRS publications. Is that the standard the regulators and servicers wanted to match?
	David Callahan: Capital One Settlement Shows Limits of Government Watchdogs Something really bad happened at a big bank, and tens of millions of dollars are being shelled out in settlements, and yet so far no heads are rolling. Just maybe that's because ripping off customers is now part of the business model for major banks. And why punish executives for doing their job?
	Kristian Ramos: A Clown Question on The DISCLOSE Act From Ruben Navarrette While on the Senate floor Senator Reid recently noted, "If this flood of outside money continues, the day after the election, 17 angry old white men will wake up and realize they just bought the country."
	Todd Grindal: US Childcare System Makes 'Having It All' All the More Difficult Our haphazard childcare system, with its inconsistent monitoring and paucity of reliable information on the quality of individual programs, makes striking a work-life balance all the more difficult for parents with young children.