Health care spending averaged $8,402 per person in 2010 – far more than any other economically advanced country.
2012
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GM likely to recapture global sales lead
GM won’t release global sales numbers until later this month, but it’s on pace to finish 2011 at around 9 million cars and trucks, at least 800,000 more than its German and Japanese rivals.
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Courtney says run against Pingree ‘pretty unlikely’
The Maine Senate majority leader says he can’t match the financial resources available to Rep. Chellie Pingree, who is married to billionaire Donald Sussman.
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Obama names new chief of staff
William Daley will be replaced by Budget Director Jacob Lew at the end of January.
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Driver swapping texts with partygoers at time of crash
Kristina Lowe, 18, of West Paris, faces charges associated with the crash, though what charges specifically and when they will be lodged depend on the investigation and her condition.
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Drought threatens last whooping cranes
The devastating drought in Texas has made food and water scarce, raising worries that the conditions could threaten the only self-sustaining flock of cranes left in the wild . . .
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Maine getting $3M more for Irene repairs
The U.S. Department of Transportation today announced that the state is getting $2.97 million more in federal funds to help pay for damage to roads and bridges caused last August by Tropical Storm Irene. For more details, read Jonathan Riskind’s Maine on the Hill blog.
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Jenny Craig scales back
The diet guru sells her mansion to her daughter and son-in-law for $6.1 million.
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Legislature kills bill to allow privately run prisons
Sen. Stanley Gerzofsky, D-Brunswick, saw the bill as a way to authorize a private company to open a facility that cares for aging prisoners who need special care.
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Why your landlord might charge a high security deposit
They might have been burned by past tenants – or you might be sending them a red flag.