RSS Feeds | Child Safety Often Depends On Caregivers Ability To Hear
August 31, 2007 07:00:00Parents who ask baby boomers or more elderly grandparents to care for their children for part of the day should be sure that the caregivers can hear well to assure that their children will be safe. "There is a direct correlation between a caregivers ability to hear, and the safety of the baby-sitting environment for the children," says Dr. Sergei Kochkin, Executive Director of the non-profit educational organization, the Better Hearing Institute (BHI). [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| Nearly 71% Of Private Employees Have Access To Health Benefits
August 30, 2007 12:00:00Seventy-one percent of U.S. private-sector employees have access to employer-based health care benefits this year, and 52% of workers with access chose to participate in the plans, according to a report by the U.S. Department of Labors Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Kansas City Star reports. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| NACDS And Back-To-School Campaign Educate Uninsured Families On Available Health Care Options, USA
August 30, 2007 10:00:00 It is that time again when moms and dads are taking their kids to retail stores to purchase new pens, pencils, notebooks and folders. While backpacks are filled, there is something that many kids and families go without - health insurance. Families may go uninsured because they do not know about all the options available to them. They often do not realize that there are affordable and sometimes free alternatives; consequentially there are 8. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| Statement Of Michael Ehlert, M.D., National President, American Medical Student Association On Numbe
August 30, 2007 09:00:00"Though the poverty rate has dropped and more people are working, the number of uninsured Americans has reached an all-time high, according to the U.S. Census Bureau report issued recently. These statistics are an S.O.S. for all of the presidential hopefuls. The United States needs a single, national health care system and its next leader must provide a solution. This is not a problem we can ignore anymore. The 47 million uninsured and millions of other underinsured Americans need our help. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| Little Change In Proportion Of Uninsured
August 29, 2007 07:00:00While the proportion of Americans who have health insurance rose slightly -- rising from 15.3 percent of the population in 2005 to 15.8 percent in 2006 -- the increase in the number of uninsured is largely due to population growth and immigration, according to an analysis of the latest Census data by the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA). The NCPA also found that the greatest growth in the uninsured continues to be among higher-income households. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| 47 Million Uninsured Americans Is A Travesty, Says APHA
August 29, 2007 07:00:00The following is a statement from Dr. Georges Benjamin, Executive Director, American Public Health Association: "U.S. Census Bureau data released today show a rise in the number of Americans lacking health insurance. 47 million people did not have health coverage in 2006, up from 44.8 million in 2005. This is a travesty. "Tragically, our children share the burden. 8. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| California Gov. Schwarzenegger Threatens To Veto Democrats Health Care Legislation
August 28, 2007 18:00:00California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) on Wednesday said he will veto a health care bill by Democratic lawmakers if it relies solely on employer contributions for funding, the Sacramento Bee reports. The Democrats bill would require employers to spend at least 7.5% of payroll on employee benefits (Yamamura, Sacramento Bee, 8/23). [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| Ford, GM Ask UAW To Administer Health Care Benefits
August 28, 2007 15:00:00Ford Motor and General Motors officially have asked the United Auto Workers to assume responsibility for the health care benefits of more than 1.5 million working and retired employees, the [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| AMA Launches Campaign Touting Its Universal Health Coverage Proposal
August 28, 2007 12:00:00The American Medical Association on Thursday launched "Voice for the Uninsured," a three-year, multimillion-dollar advertising campaign intended to influence the health care debate in the 2008 election and promote its plan for providing health coverage for the uninsured, the [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| Rising Health Care Costs Pose Challenge, CBO Report Says
August 28, 2007 09:00:00The Congressional Budget Office in a report released Thursday said that the steady growth of U.S. health care costs is making the long-term budget outlook "daunting," even though the 2007 federal deficit is projected to be lower than last years, the AP/San Francisco Chronicle reports. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
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