"Notch Baby" scam targets seniors (WQAD Moline)
POLK COUNTY, Iowa -- A new scam is going around that targets senior citizens receiving a certain type of Social Security. Its called the "Notch Baby Refund" scam, "notch" referring to the benefits received by individuals born between 1917 and 1921. For more information on "notch babies," please visit this website by the AARP.

Costlier drugs prompt scrutiny (The Myrtle Beach Sun News)
Pharmaceutical companies are increasingly raising the prices of specialty medications by 100 percent or more - sometimes much more - attracting scrutiny from lawmakers who have pledged to lower health care costs. Drug prices have historically outpaced those of other consumer goods, with the average price of medicines most-often prescribed to seniors rising 7.4 percent last year, according to the ...

Law curbs fees to uninsured (Herald News)
Uninsured patients will no longer be billed at the "sticker price" for hospital stays in New Jersey, under a law signed Friday by Governor Corzine. The law prohibits the practice by which hospitals have charged the most to those least able to pay.

Drug prices skyrocket (Chicago Sun-Times)
Pharmaceutical companies are increasingly hiking the prices of specialty medications by 100 percent or more -- sometimes much more -- attracting scrutiny from lawmakers who have pledged to lower health care costs.