Chad Terhune

Recent Articles by Chad Terhune

October 21, 2010

Mortgage Mess: Shredding the Dream

In 2002, a Boca Raton (Fla.) accountant named Joseph Lents was accused of securities law violations by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Lents, who was chief ...

October 13, 2010

The Political Rumble Over Public Pension Costs

If anyone fits the profile of a San Francisco Democrat, it's Jeff Adachi. In 2004 the elected public defender volunteered to officiate at ceremonies of same-sex ...

July 29, 2010

ICE's Jeffrey Sprecher: The Sultan of Swaps

After buying a $10 million mansion in Atlanta last year, Jeffrey C. Sprecher rolled up his sleeves and repaired the furnace himself. He also rewired the sound system. ...

February 3, 2010

Take Your Meds, Exercise—and Spend Billions

A decade ago General Electric (GE) experimented with a promising approach to employee health care known as disease management. It hired a company to talk with workers ...

December 9, 2009

A Hole in Health-Care Reform

President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies on Capitol Hill say that a vast expansion of health coverage can be funded by squeezing out waste and fraud rather ...

August 6, 2009

Questions About Golden Rule

Even as UnitedHealth Group (UNH) has helped shape the reform debate, some lawmakers have accused it of harming consumers. Several members of the House Energy & ...

August 6, 2009

The Health Insurers Have Already Won

As the health reform fight shifts this month from a vacationing Washington to congressional districts and local airwaves around the country, much more of the battle ...