WASHINGTON - President Bush took his proposals to slow Medicare and Medicaid spending to a new scale in his proposed 2009 budget even though previous, more modest efforts to trim the entitlement programs went nowhere.
Over the next five years, the president would reduce by $196 billion the two entitlement programs that provide most of the [...]
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will open its first in-store medical clinics under its own brand name after leasing space in dozens of stores to outside companies that operate the quick-service health stops.
The world’s largest retailer said Thursday it will open “The Clinic at Wal-Mart” as a joint venture with local hospital systems in Atlanta, Dallas and [...]
Gathered with family members in a hospital room in January 2006, Melanie Schertz made her dying father a promise: “It’s OK,” she recalls saying. “I’ll take care of Mom.”
Today, Schertz credits Salt Lake City for enabling her to keep that promise. Thanks to an ordinance [...]
In 1990, he went on holiday to California and never came back. Three months after he arrived on America’s west coast, his tourist visa expired and he became an illegal immigrant; four years later, his British passport ran out. As the years passed by, returning home seemed increasingly out of the question: legally, financially, physically, [...]
Obama, on the morning chat shows, was just as combative. In an interview on ABC, he suggested Clinton’s history made her a polarising figure and that he was more electable. “I think I can get votes that Senator Clinton can’t get,” he said.The two contenders for the Democratic nomination are now in a virtual dead-heat [...]
WASHINGTON - Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday she might be willing to have workers’ wages garnisheed if they refuse to buy health insurance to achieve coverage for all Americans.
The New York senator has criticized presidential rival Barack Obama for pushing a health plan that would not require universal coverage. Clinton has not always specified [...]
In March 2000, I adopted my son, Yeager. Currently, my partner and I are in the process of having a second child. That child will not share the same rights as Yeager. Not even close.
In May 2000, the Utah Legislature passed an amendment to Utah’s [...]
Mark the date: Efforts to reform Utah’s health-care system began today at 8 a.m., Jan. 30, 2008.
The complete overhaul of the state’s health-care service system would be a meridian in history as necessary to the well-being of the next generations of Utahns as learning how [...]
Another big national study is showing that children enrolled in public health insurance programs are more likely to receive at least one annual doctor visit than kids on private insurance plans.
The comparative study of public and private insurance coverage for children was published in the [...]
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration’s health agenda this year will consist largely of fending off Democratic lawmakers until a new president and Congress take charge.
In a preview of what is ahead, Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt says the administration will work to limit the government’s role in the delivery of health care. That [...]
