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Monday, March 25, 2013  Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner says the city will save more than $600,000 in health care costs following a recent negotiation with two local hospitals.

Thursday, July 28, 2011  As high as health care costs are today, they're going to get much higher in just nine years, according to a new government report.

Thursday, July 07, 2011  More companies are taking a hard line on their employees who smoke. Some are charging more for health insurance. Others are refusing to hire smokers altogether.

Tuesday, August 17, 2010  Cancer is the world's top economic killer as well as its likely leading cause of death, the American Cancer Society contends in a new report it will present at a global cancer conference in China this week.

Thursday, June 18, 2009  A new poll finds considerable concern about health care costs - with nearly half of all Americans worried about paying for future care.  lmost one in four people in the survey by the University of Michigan fear losing coverage in the next year.