| 08/09/08 | Why don't Republicans want employment-based health insurance? (Managed Care Matters) |  |
Published 08/09/08 01:16:59
I've been considering why Republican politicians and pundits favor de-linking employment and health insurance. Portability is certainly a good reason; some workers can't leave their jobs for fear they will lose coverage, or won't be able to get new coverage... |
| 08/09/08 | Study finds huge differences in regional health spending (The Independent) | |
Published 08/09/08 01:00:01
Cancer patients in the metropolitan borough of Knowsley, near Liverpool, can count themselves fortunate in one respect. Unlucky though they are to have the disease, they live in the area with thehighest spending on cancer treatment in the country. |
| 08/09/08 | Warren Rips Canadian Politics: ?Five Different Grades Of Vanilla? (Down With Everybody) | |
Published 08/09/08 00:36:18
[David Warren, Ottawa Citizen] For instance, all parties are committed to preserving Canada?s dysfunctional socialist health care system. All are committed to the continued heavy regulation of private enterprise generally, and to choking small business in particular with red tape. All are committed to maintaining a crippling tax burden, and a tax collection system with [...] |
| 08/09/08 | Senior Moment (Forbes) | |
Published 08/09/08 00:10:19
Affluent elderly Indians are seeking care outside the family. |
| 07/09/08 | Brooklyn: Idea of Creating Boroughwide Pediatric Hospital Explored (Yeshiva World News) | |
Published 07/09/08 23:52:57
Maimonides Infants and Children?s Hospital and SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn are exploring the idea of creating a boroughwide pediatric hospital. Discussions have been ?very preliminary,? says Dr. Steven Shelov, vice president of the Maimonides pediatric facility. A SUNY Downstate spokesman confirms that there have been talks but says that it would be premature to [...] |
| 07/09/08 | Obama vs. McCain on Tax Cuts (Bruno and the Professor) | |
Published 07/09/08 23:02:45
Handy little calculator for figuring out what your tax cut would be under an Obama administration. Clearly designed to remind people that, unless you make over $500k/yr, Obama?s plan means less taxes for you. Of course, I don?t really go for the whole tax cutting argument. Taxes are used to buy government services, and [...] |
| 07/09/08 | The Canadian prisoner's dilemma (Daimnation!) | |
Published 07/09/08 21:33:24
Why vote for any party? David Warren is mad as hell and doesn't want to have to take this any more: We are all prisoners of the Canadian consensus ..all parties are committed to preserving Canada's dysfunctional socialist health care... |
| 07/09/08 | Study: Workers to pay more for health care (Contrapuntal News) | |
Published 07/09/08 20:48:00
From the AP : On average, health care costs will go up by an estimated 5.7 percent next year for both workers and their employers, the study found. That repeats this year?s 5.7 percent hike and a 6.1 percent jump in 2007. And how much do you think workers' wages have risen? Hmmm... |
| 07/09/08 | McCain tax plan: "Bush's plan on steroids" (AMERICAblog) | |
Published 07/09/08 19:05:00
Naturally McCain is going to promote a radical plan , because the owner of twelve houses thinks that the US has experienced significant economic progress, so why not more? More tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, higher costs for health care (for those who need to pay attention to such costs) and more cuts to Social Security and Medicare. Despite making hundreds of thousands of dollars per year and being married to a beer heiress worth $100 million, McCain still gladly accepts his Social Security money but wants everyone else to cut back. It must be nice to live in such a ivory tower, where the cost of living or staying afloat financially doesn't matter. Look at how much is being paid by employees today and then think about how expensive it will be on a personal basis when McCain cuts the tax break for employers on health care and it's all thrown into your lap with a pathetic little tax credit, which is useless. Talk about expensive! Also consider how poorly US money has been spent (and lost) in Iraq while John McCain has made that his number one issue. He can't even watch over spending in Iraq yet expects 300 million Americans to wade through the free-for-all health care theory that he wants to promote. Besides wealthy elites like McCain, who can afford the cost and time for such a plan? Not everyone has a team of personal accountants on call to figure it all out. |
| 07/09/08 | Health chiefs battle to bring back Iraqi doctors (Miami Herald) | |
Published 07/09/08 19:00:00
A kidney specialist who fled Iraq's bombings, kidnappings and sectarian killings 20 months ago has reported back to work at his Baghdad hospital - one of some 800 doctors who have returned over the summer. |
| 07/09/08 | Health chiefs battle to bring back Iraqi doctors (kansascity.com) | |
Published 07/09/08 19:00:00
A kidney specialist who fled Iraq's bombings, kidnappings and sectarian killings 20 months ago has reported back to work at his Baghdad hospital - one of some 800 doctors who have returned over the summer. |
| 07/09/08 | Health chiefs battle to bring back Iraqi doctors (Boston Globe) | |
Published 07/09/08 18:58:31
A kidney specialist who fled Iraq's bombings, kidnappings and sectarian killings 20 months ago has reported back to work at his Baghdad hospital -- one of some 800 doctors who have returned over the summer. |
| 07/09/08 | Patient safety: Civil society to sensitize patients (Afriquenligne) | |
Published 07/09/08 18:07:34
Yaounde, Cameroon - Against the backdrop of a heightened campaign to ensure patient safety, the civil society is planning to sensitize patients across Africa to make them more alert to the issues involved in the campaign, according to Ms. Robinah Kaitirimba, a Patients for Patient Safety Champion. |
| 07/09/08 | WellPoint Adjusts Health and Pharmacy Guidelines for Members Affected by Hurricane Ike (PR News Wire ) | |
Published 07/09/08 18:04:00
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| 07/09/08 | More Mental Health Problems Reported By Older Vietnamese (Medical News Today) | |
Published 07/09/08 18:00:00
Vietnamese Americans over 55, most who came to the United States as political refugees, report more mental health problems than non-Hispanic whites, according to a UC Irvine Center for Health Care Policy analysis of state data. |
| 07/09/08 | Mental-Health Care - Winston-Salem (NC) Journal (NC Mental Hope News) | |
Published 07/09/08 17:35:00
JOURNAL EDITORIAL STAFF It's become painfully clear that the state needs a lot of help if it's ever going to improve its terribly flawed system of mental-health care. So we welcome a 24-hour mobile crisis unit to provide timelier mental-health care to Davie, Forsyth and Stokes counties. But that certainly doesn't mean the state should relax its own efforts toward fixing the system. The state, |
| 07/09/08 | MR. OBAMA, IS THIS ON YOUR HEALTH CARE AGENDA? (Watchingpolitics) | |
Published 07/09/08 17:15:33
September 7, 2008 Pardon my skepticism, Mr. Leader of the Free World, but are you thinking of addressing this issue when your lust for POWER finally comes to fruition? According to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), schemes to defraud the Medicare program have grown more elaborate in recent years. In particular, HHS has acknowledged [...] |
| 07/09/08 | Swedish Sexual Health Policy, Money, Growth and Development (Greg Laden's Blog) | |
Published 07/09/08 16:49:35
One of the earliest preserved and apparently still funcitonal condoms. Liberal (as in liberal philosophy) policies such as family planning and feminism, universal health care, support of and respect for scientific research, universal and high quality education, and the rejection -- even within a relatively conservative society -- of conservative beliefs as well as personal and institutional level selfish behaivor should be among the primary values of any country that wishes to succeed in the basic objectives of the pursuit of happiness and freedom. According to this graph: Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... |
| 07/09/08 | Obama: Hot for Teacher? (The Chief Source) | |
Published 07/09/08 16:36:00
This is the season of flowery speeches, where candidates rack-off 101 things that need to be fixed. One thing they never do though is prioritize them. They never tell say... health care voters that health care will be taking the back seat to say... green technologies, which are slightly less important than say... securing Social Security (the one exception of course being national security). |
| 07/09/08 | Parity for Mental Health Treatment in California: AB 1887 Needs Governor?s Signature (California Progress Report) | |
Published 07/09/08 16:28:57
By Jim Beall, Jr. Member California State Assembly There are 18 million Californians who have health insurance can count... |
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