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Brewers end home season with 6-5 loss to Phillies

September 28, 2009 By

The Milwaukee Brewers ended the home portion of their schedule with a 6-5 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies at Miller Park on Sunday.  The Brewers will take today off and then play the final week of the season on the road, starting with a three-game series at Colorado followed by a 3-game weekend series in St. Louis.

Jimmy Rollins hit his 21st home run of the season for the Phillies and Ryan Howard tied Prince Fielder for the major league RBI lead.  The win for the Phillies cut the team’s magic number to 3 to clinch their 3rd straight American League East.

The Brewers finished the season, drawing 3,037,451 fans, averaging 37,499 fans per game.  That’s just off the record setting figures of a year ago. 

The Brewers got home runs from Mike Cameron (23rd) and Mat Gamel (5th) in the loss.  The Brewers are 2-games under .500 (77-79) with six games left.

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Private colleges offer ‘ideal’ health insurance to students

September 28, 2009 By

There’s a lot of talk lately about health care, but students at Wisconsin’s Private Colleges needn’t worry.

The head of the Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (WAICU) says between 25-30 percent of students don’t have health care when they start college, especially now that many aren’t covered by their parents who may have lost their jobs — and their insurance.

“So we wanted to develop a plan that would address the uninsured, that would provide coverage for people that don’t have coverage, and be cost-effective for the students.”

WAICU President and CEO Rolf Wegenke, Ph.D. (pronounce) says many existing student health insurance plans have many exclusions when compared to traditional plans. He says many student plans don’t include coverage for mental health, wellness, basic immunizations, sports and alcohol-related injuries.

“All the kinds of things that would happen to a student, these student health plans don’t cover.”

WAICU was adamant about getting a plan that would cover all the necessities, including [Read more...]

Filed Under: Education, Health & Medicine
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