How to Fix Our Health Care Mess
AlterNet, CA -
It's well-known that our system coldly leaves more than 46 million of us without any health coverage. That's one in every six Americans, including 8.3 million children. If you're keeping political score, the number of uninsured has jumped by six million under the Bushites' five-year reign in Washington. More than half of America's low-wage workers (those paid $20,000 a year or less by such outfits as Wal-Mart, Tyson or McDonald's) are not covered -- and more than half of them are having problems with their families' medical expenses. Quite a few are paying a heavier price -- some 18,000 Americans die unnecessarily each year due to lack of health insurance, roughly the same number who die of stroke, HIV or homicide. Less well-known, however, is the costly burden on millions more who supposedly are "covered" but may suddenly find themselves on the hook for thousands of dollars if they get seriously sick. Here's how it can happen:
2006-06-19
Health Care Providers Needn't Give Companies More Than Law Demands
Hartford Courant, United States -
Q. Do employers have a legal right to object if physicians substitute a simple one-page Family and Medical Leave Act form for the confusing 10-page form that many companies demand that doctors submit? So many of us health care providers are being inundated with these awful forms, and patients suffer if the paperwork isn't completed in a timely manner.
2006-06-18
Protesters Urge Better Care for Those Exposed to 9/11 Dust
New York Times, United States -
2006-06-16
Schwarzenegger says state can't afford to expand health care
Scripps Howard News Service, DC -
2006-06-15
Churches urged to take role in members' health care
The Tennessean, TN -
Kennedy's seminar was one of many offered at the National Baptist Sunday School and Baptist Training Union Congress going on this week in the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center. The congress was started in 1906 in Nashville by the late R.H. Boyd and has brought more than 10,000 National Baptists to Nashville this week.
2006-06-14
Moore introduces national health care network bill
Bizjournals.com, NC -
"I believe that there is no better way to transition the medical community from paper-based medical records than by adopting independent health record banks," Moore said. "By establishing a nationwide health information technology network, we will be able to improve health quality, reduce medical errors, reduce wasteful administrative costs and ensure that appropriate and accurate information is available for medical decisions."
2006-06-13
School staff will change health care plans to Cigna
Middletown Press, CT -
"With the cuts that are going on with regards to the teachers, I wanted to bring the board what I thought we were headed for with our new education system here in about 10 or 15 years," Hanley said, revealing the dictionary. "I figure we can just hand every kid in the district a dictionary and say all the knowledge you need is in here. You go and you figure it out."
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