A call for compassion over hospital bills for poor
April 21, 2004
Guidelines from Jersey association aim to revamp the way the uninsured are charged.
Groups push drug makers to help poor
April 21, 2004
Shareholders of pharmaceutical company Schering-Plough have approved a resolution submitted by the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, a coalition of faith-based investor groups, to improve a company program that provides free and discounted prescription drugs to low-income patients in the United States and developing nations, the AP/Boston Globe reports.
Now Can We Talk About Health Care?
April 18, 2004
I know what you're thinking. Hillary Clinton and health care? Been there. Didn't do that!.
No, it's not 1994; it's 2004. And believe it or not, we have more problems today than we had back then. Issues like soaring health costs and millions of uninsured have yet to fix
themselves. And now we are confronting a new set of challenges associated with the
arrival of the information age, the technological revolution and modern life.
States get to enroll seniors for Medicare drug discount
April 18, 2004
Some states will be allowed to enroll low-income retirees automatically for the new drug-discount cards.
Judges Defend Rights of Pa. Mentally Ill
April 16, 2004
By keeping mentally ill people in state-run psychiatric hospitals when they could be well enough to be treated in less restrictive facilities, Pennsylvania is committing a "gross injustice," a three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday, the AP/Virginian-Pilot reports.
Mental health law stirs praise, promises
April 15, 2004
Nebraska Gov. Mike Johanns (R) on Wednesday signed into law a bill (LB 1083) that shifts some mental health services from three regional centers to community-based facilities, the Omaha World-Herald reports (Reed, Omaha World-Herald, 4/15).
Hospital bills spin out of control
April 13, 2004
USA Today on Tuesday looked at rapidly rising consumer spending on hospital care, the "fastest-growing segment" of U.S. health care costs. According to the Center for Studying Health System Change, actual spending on hospital care rose 7.6% in the first half of 2003, and spending on outpatient hospital care grew nearly 13%.
Poor are at greater health risk, senator says
April 10, 2004
Legislators should take a "comprehensive approach" to eliminating health care disparities, focusing not only on race or ethnicity, but also on geographic and socioeconmonic factors, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) writes in a letter to the editor of the New Orleans Times-Picayune (Frist, New Orleans Times-Picayune, 4/10).
Cavity Depravity
March 11, 2004
The rotten roots of a sweet HMO deal rip dental health from the mouths of babes.
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