| King On Health Care
If the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today, it's almost certain he'd be talking about health care.
"Dr. King has often been quoted as saying, `Of all forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane,'" Dr. Ray Hammond told 900 people gathered in Hartford Monday to honor King's life.
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An entirely impressive first half
DALLAS - Dinner before appetizer? That seemed to be the order of the mostly pleasurable concert by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra on Thursday night at the Meyerson Symphony Center. In place of the customary overture, German guest conductor Jun Markl dug right in with Brahms' autumnal Third Symphony. This might be the most immediately gratifying of the composer's four symphonies, but subtlety always counts for a lot in Brahms, and Markl worked hard to produce as many dynamic and expressive nuances as possible from the orchestra. His brisk tempos, particularly in the romantic third movement, avoided any risk of stodginess. There was an ulterior motive at work in starting with the Brahms: It accommodated the brilliant French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet for a pair of virtuosic, although musically uneven, concertos -- Ravel's Concerto for Left Hand and Liszt's Totentanz, which were separated by the intermission.
Shopping for savings on prescription drugs
It's no secret that prescription drugs can be very expensive. But you're not necessarily stuck paying the high prices.
That's important to know, given that more people are paying for large parts of their medical insurance nowadays. But even people with prescription-drug coverage can lower their spending on co-payments for medications.
The cost savings can be dramatic.
One recent study showed that instead of paying about $140 for 100 doses of cardiovascular drug Tenormin, you could instead pay $5.65. Instead of paying near $500 for 100 doses of heartburn drug Nexium, you could pay about $62. Those examples, achieved through a variety of techniques outlined below, were included in a November study, "Shopping For Drugs: 2007," by health economist Devon Herrick of the National Center for Policy Analysis, a conservative think tank in Washington.
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