A MEDICAL BILL.

A bill of rights, or a bill of goods?

In response to the rise in construction defect litigation and the resulting increase in the cost of insurance contractors are required to carry, the Washington Legislature passed RCW 64.50.005 et seq., which became effective June 13, 2002. The statute (referred to by some as a “bill of rights” for contractors) requires that homeowners and condominium homeowners’ associations (collectively “home...

Medical bill problems steady for U.S. families, 2007-2010.

More than one in five Americans were in families reporting problems paying medical bills in 2010--about the same proportion as in 2007, according to a new national study by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC). Given the severe 2007-09 recession, the sluggish economic recovery and health care costs continuing to increase faster than incomes, it is somewhat surprising that the rate...

A cleaner bill of health.

The Bioinformatics Links Directory, http:// bioinformatics.ca/links_directory, is an actively maintained compilation of servers published in this and previous issues of Nucleic Acids Research issues together with many other useful tools, databases and resources for life sciences research. The 2007 update includes the 130 websites highlighted in the July 2007 Web Server issue of Nucleic Acids Re...

Gates foots a malaria bill

genuine search for the public view, but as a way of getting greater acceptance,” he wrote. “Now they are hoist with their own petard. The people who registered their views were more hostile than the public at large.” The figures were drawn from over 600 public meetings throughout the country — which, as The Independent pointed out, were not designed to achieve a cross-sample of the population a...

Pharmacy Bill