TheoWire: Articles
TheoWire: Articles
From 2002 through mid-2008, I worked closely with Ellen E. Schultz, The Wall Street Journal’s groundbreaking pension reporter. Among other stories, we uncovered how companies boost profits by cutting retiree health-care, how executives get lifetime health benefits and how Medicare’s prescription-drug benefit gave big employers a multi-billion-dollar windfall.
Retirement & employee-benefits coverage
The Wall Street Journal
A selection of stories from the past
• Medical Dilemma: Spread of Records Stirs Patient Fears Of Privacy Erosion --- Ms. Galvin's Insurer Studies Psychotherapist's Notes; A Dispute Over the Rules --- Complaint Tally Hits 23,896 | The Wall Street Journal, 26 December 2006, A1
• To Be Old, Frail And Evicted: Patients at Risk --- As Nursing Homes Shift Focus To Short-Term Rehab Care, Families Must Look Elsewhere | The Wall Street Journal, 7 August 2008, D1
• Possums Are Playing Upside-Down Role In Florida Elections --- Panhandle Marsupial Event Is Vital Campaign Stop; Jeb Bush Was a Regular | The Wall Street Journal, 11 August 2006, A1
• Janitor’s insurance series: How companies profit from secret life insurance policies covering their employees and former employees (written with Ellen E. Schultz) | The Wall Street Journal, 2002-2003
• Retirement & employee benefits coverage: How employers profit by cutting retiree and employee benefits and soup up executive benefits, often at the expense of ordinary workers (written with Ellen E. Schultz) | The Wall Street Journal, 2002-2008
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