Archive for June, 2008

Few Truckers Can Afford Health Insurance

A port-funded study on health care options for independent truck drivers in San Pedro Bay paints a mostly bleak picture for drivers and their families, who face high costs, limited coverage and the likelihood of rejection by insurance companies.
The study, presented Monday to Port of Long Beach Harbor Commissioners, estimates that 40 percent of drivers [...]

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Student Health Insurance A Must For Students

A question might crop up your mind while you hear about Student Health Insurance, why do I need a student health insurance? But you should keep in mind that that no one is invincible. You cannot foresee illness or any other mishaps that might happen to you.
Student health insurance is a must for students especially [...]

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Tufts Health Plan Eyes Rhode Island Market

Tufts Health Plan — the Bay State’s third-largest health insurer — has filed plans to offer health insurance in the Rhode Island marketplace.
THP said Thursday that it filed an application to offer insurance in Rhode Island with the state’s Department of Business Regulations, which is similar to the Massachusetts Division of Insurance.
Tufts CEO James Roosevelt [...]

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Global Aids Policy And Womens Health

IN SPITE OF scientific and medical advances in recent years, the AIDS pandemic remains the greatest public health crisis of our time. Each day 6,000 people die of AIDS and there are 7,000 new infections. These statistics are difficult to comprehend until you see the faces of those most often affected - young women, between [...]

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A Home For A Drug Pillar Orphan

Pitfield held that the possession and trafficking sections of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA) are unjustifiable infringements of Insite users’ rights under s. 7 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which guarantees “the right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except in [...]

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Psychiatric Home Resident Assaults Counselor He Was Dating

A resident of a halfway house for psychiatric patients is accused of severely beating a staff counselor he’d been dating, holding her captive in a car until the woman’s parents reached her cell phone, police said today.
Hearing her terrified voice, the parents called 911, and police later discovered the bloody couple parked a quarter mile [...]

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Make Those Health Care Promises Stick

early a year ago, I had the honor of delivering the Democratic radio address to a national audience. It was a tremendous privilege to step up to the microphone and speak to Americans about our national health care crisis.
I’m not an elected leader. I’m a child care provider and the mom of a family that [...]

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Health Care Reform Laissez Faire Or Primary Scare

Health care reform is on many minds as employers are paying higher premiums and employees are paying higher deductibles. Some would argue for market-based reforms with no government intervention such that weaker, inefficient and consumer-despised plans will fail and only cost-effective, consumer-friendly plans will prevail. Others will push for some sort of government-mandated reform, either [...]

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More Young Americans Living Without Health Insurance

Results of a new US study released by the Commonwealth Fund, find that more and more young Americans are living without any form of health insurance.
The report, entitled Rite of Passage? Why Young Adults Become Uninsured and How New Policies Can Help, used census data to calculate the numbers, that show that 13.79 million Americans [...]

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