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People who lack health insurance.
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Published December 4, 2008, 6:00 pm, Hays Daily News
Eds: CLARIFIES in grafs 17-18 that increased costs apply only to policy holders who file autism claims.
Report: Hawaii 2nd healthiest state in U.S.
Published December 4, 2008, 5:41 pm, Honolulu Advertiser
Hawai'i received one of the highest rankings in the national report, America's Health Rankings 2008, released Wednesday by the United Health Foundation, state Department of Health officials said.
State Health Rankings
Published December 4, 2008, 5:12 pm, KSN - KODE Joplin
A new report finds Americans aren't getting any healthier. Working out, eating healthy and not smoking are no brainers, but it's easier said than done.
Group Fights For More Insured Children
Published December 4, 2008, 4:29 pm, The Morning News
FAYETTEVILLE -- Doctors and health care professionals across the state are sick of seeing an estimated 69,000 uninsured children without affordable options for health care services.
Chesco offers discount drugs to all residents
Published December 4, 2008, 3:50 pm, The Mercury
WEST CHESTER — A new plan that will make it easier for those Chester County residents without health insurance or who are underinsured to pay for their prescription drugs was introduced Wednesday by county commissioners.
Illinois hospitals to get $4B more from feds
Published December 4, 2008, 3:46 pm, Crain's Chicago Business
(Crain's) — Illinois hospitals and other medical providers will get nearly $4 billion in additional health care funding from Washington, D.C., over the next five years, state officials announced Thursday. The extra money is for the state’s Medicaid program, the health plan for the poor that ...
Gift Certificates Could be Used for Deadly Purposes
Published December 4, 2008, 3:40 pm, Fox News
A number of Planned Parenthood clinics in Indiana and Illinois are offering gift certificates for their services this Christmas
Lyons clinic expansion offers more services, programs
Published December 4, 2008, 3:13 pm, Kingwood Observer
According to the Harris County Hospital District, the large number of uninsured or under-insured patients is responsible for the increase in wait times in emergency rooms.
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Published December 4, 2008, 2:58 pm, Heritage Foundation
Americans may be in for some unpleasant changes. President-elect Barack Obama, [1] Senator Max Baucus (D-MT), [2] and former Senator Thomas Daschle (D-SD)--Obama's choice for secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) [3] --have outlined policy proposals that, if enacted, would negatively impact private health care for millions of Americans.
National Report Shows No Change In North Carolina"™s Health Status
Published December 4, 2008, 2:56 pm, MyNC.com
Smoking, obesity and infant mortality are still the top challenges facing the health of North Carolinians. The latest release of America’s Health Rankings puts North Carolina at 36 in the nation, behind Delaware and just ahead of Kentucky.
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Thu Dec 4
- Health Insurer Group Rolls Out Proposal for Universal Coverage | California Healthline 12.04.08: On Wednesday, America's Health Insurance Plans announced a universal health coverage proposal that would be funded in part by slowing the growth of health care costs by 30 percent over five years and reducing inefficiencies , the Wall Street Journal reports.
- Insurers Group Proposes Universal Health Care
- 287,000 Illinoisans Age 50 to 64 Are Uninsured: Chicago Tribune - 12/03/08
Wed Dec 3
- Families USA: uninsured children on the rise, Medicaid and SCHIP need more funding
- Insurers, Business Lobbyists Join Health Care Reform Negotiations | California Healthline 12.03.08: Health insurance and business lobbying groups are "talking seriously about changes that would ideally help cover the nation's 47 million uninsured, improve the quality of care and tame the growth of health care spending," ; the Boston Globe reports.
Mon Dec 1
- Health Care Challenge May Take Time to Solve | San Francisco Chronicle 12.01.08: Obama's most difficult policy challenge will be to fix the nation's broken health care system. He and his advisers say they've learned from the mistakes that bedeviled former President Bill Clinton's health care plan in the 1990s. Obama is pledging to pass a reform plan by the end of his first term.
- Opinion: The Less Discussed Health Care Crisis | Redding Record Searchlight 12.01.08: President-elec t Barack Obama has assured us that health care reform will not be put on the back burner. Let us hope he can deliver on that despite our deepening economic crisis. Foremost among health reform concerns: how to extend health coverage for the 47 million to 50 million uninsured, and how to contain rising insurance costs. Less discussed and less noticed as a health care crisis is the growing shortage of primary care doctors, the family practice doctors, internists, pediatricians and OB-GYN doctors who deal with almost all patients.
- Medi-Cal Beneficiaries, Uninsured Have Higher Hospital Death Rates | California Healthline 12.01.08: Uninsured Californians and Medi-Cal beneficiaries are significantly more likely to die during hospital stays than Californians with private health insurance coverage, according to a report released last week by California 9;s Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, the Sacramento Business Journal reports.
Fri Nov 28
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