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What if, instead of fighting the uphill battle of recruiting more doctors, we figure out alternatives that will keep us healthy and increase the number of high-paying community jobs?

Opioid drugs are generally cheap while safer alternatives are often more expensive.

One of the things that has prevented us from really doing great things, from an insurance carrier’s perspective, is that in many states including Idaho, rebates are illegal. So, we have to be really careful. You can’t rebate people to do something.

Hood said his goal is to create a new wave of "wellderly" people who get into their 80s and 90s in excellent health without any serious problems, ultimately dying in their 100s "by virtue of a total systems failure."

The suit alleges that Wells Fargo engaged in "a systematic effort" to charge unwarranted rate-lock extension fees — sometimes costing thousands of dollars each — to borrowers who should not have been required to pay them.

Wells Fargo is now saying 3.5 million accounts were impacted by its fake accounts scandal, a dramatic increase from the 2.1 million accounts it originally estimated.

Wells Fargo says it is nearing completion of an expanded analysis to try to find instances in which its employees might have opened unauthorized customer accounts, which could lead to additional refunds.

Wells Fargo has promised to make amends to the customers it forced to buy car insurance that they didn’t need. Allan Dunlap, a former Wells Fargo borrower who spent months trying to get the bank to correct an insurance error that marred his credit report, says he’ll believe it when he sees it.

A lawsuit accuses Wells Fargo of overcharging small businesses for credit card transactions and imposing "massive early termination fees" on businesses that tried to leave the bank.

Use of a regulatory loophole will allow Sinclair to reach 72 percent of U.S. households after buying Tribune’s stations.