Peter Whoriskey
Recent Stories By Peter Whoriskey:
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The Hospice Industry’s Frightening New FailureMay 5, 2014
TAMPA — The 85-year-old hospice patient was close to death. Ying Tai Choi lay on a hospital bed arranged in the living room of her daughter’s house. A pulse oximeter pinged an intermittent warning...
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Historic Medicare Data Dump Blows the Lid Off Doc PayApril 9, 2014
The Medicare program is the source of a small fortune for many U.S. doctors, according to a trove of government records that reveal unprecedented details about physician billing practices nationwide...
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Hospice Industry Games Medicare to Make BillionsDecember 27, 2013
Hospice patients are expected to die: The treatment focuses on providing comfort to the terminally ill, not finding a cure. To enroll a patient, two doctors certify a life expectancy of six months or...
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Anema Drugs Made Billions, But at What Cost?July 20, 2012
On the day Jim Lenox got his last injection, the frail 54-year-old cancer patient was waiting to be discharged from the Baltimore Washington Medical Center. He’d put on his black leather coat. Then a...
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Why Poor Johnny Can’t Run for Office – and WinDecember 28, 2011
One day after his shift at the steel mill, Gary Myers drove home in his 10-year-old Pontiac and told his wife he was going to run for Congress. The odds were long. At 34, Myers was the shift foreman...
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Was Steve Jobs Stingy?October 7, 2011
For one of the nation’s most famous billionaires, Steve Jobs kept a low profile as a charitable donor. Unlike fellow tech leaders Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, he did not sign the...
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Global Markets Continue to SlideAugust 19, 2011
BERLIN — Global stock markets continued their sharp sell-off for a second day Friday as weak economic news from the United States combined with growing concern that a possible credit crunch among...
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With Executive Pay, Rich Pull Away from Rest of AmericaJune 19, 2011
It was the 1970s, and the chief executive of a leading U.S. dairy company, Kenneth J. Douglas, lived the good life. He earned the equivalent of about $1 million today. He and his family moved from a...
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Pension Funds Understated Shortfall by $1.5TMarch 3, 2011
The pension funds for state and local workers in the United States are understating the amount they will owe workers by $1.5 trillion or more, according to some economists who have studied the issue...
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Report: No Electronic Flaws in Toyotas That Would Cause AccelerationFebruary 9, 2011
Government investigators have rejected claims that electronic defects caused Toyota cars and trucks to accelerate out of control, a finding released Tuesday that offers a measure of long-awaited...
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Obama Administration: Electric Car Goal Achievable February 8, 2011
President Obama's goal of 1 million electric cars on the road within the next four years is achievable, according to an administration report to be released Tuesday, contradicting a finding last week...