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March 01, 2012 at 05:27 AM
Vermont contemplates a single-payer health care system, medical fraud fights the law and the law wins, and Republican politics get even more complicated. This and more in this week’s Week in Pictures.
State Sen. Kevin De Leon, D-Los Angeles, right, accompanied by Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, responds to a question concerning a bill to provide a private-sector worker retirement savings plan, in Sacramento, Calif. Under the proposed legislation, SB1234 would require employers with five or more employees to enroll their workers into a state-run personal pension program where employers would put in 3 percent of an employee’s wage. Workers can opt out if they choose.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
In this photograph taken by AP Images for AIDS Healthcare Foundation, guests attend the Condom & HIV testing event at the ‘Project Red Dress’ Fundraiser for the Sin Sity Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence at the World Market Center on Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012 in Las Vegas. The AIDS Health Care Foundation launched a “Condom Nation” tour to help promote condom use in an effort to reduce the HIV/STD infection rate. The initiative, which also involves free screenings and education sessions, spans 25-states, during a six-month nationwide tour. (Jeff Bottari/AP Images for AIDS Healthcare Foundation)
An elderly Romanian man tries to sell flowers in the streets of Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012. Retirees, sometimes from villages on the outskirts of the Romanian capital, struggling on small pensions, try to take advantage of the widely spread custom of offering flowers on March 1 to celebrate the arrival of spring and make some extra money.With America’s rapidly aging workforce, a social security system in peril and many private retirement funds decimated by the economic collapse could this be a harbinger of things to come? (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
