Members of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC) are fighting back against insurance companies that care more about profits than people.
CNA/NNOC members, nurses, doctors, patients and Americans of every stripe will join in a national day of protest against insurance companies June 19. In more than 15 cities from Baltimore to Pittsburgh to [...]
A public hearing is to be held on May 30, by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) focusing on the growing health care costs in the United States. The hearing will be part of the NAIC’s Summer National Meeting in San Francisco and is hosted by Health Innovations (B) Working Group.
Members of the Working [...]
As a kid growing up in a very small, quiet farming town, I always found it exciting when we had to go to the big city, especially if we stayed overnight in a downtown hotel. Motels in those days were few, and were called “tourist cabins.” The excitement was mostly at all the [...]
A source told Life and Style Weekly magazine: Theyve been dating under the radar for more than a year. I think they made it exclusive when Minnie found out she was pregnant.
She is telling friends she couldnt be happier that they are going to have a baby!
The actress, who lives in Los Angeles, is said [...]
A few days ago I got an exciting e-mail. A bank official in Hong Kong needs my help with a problem at his bank. There is an account there with $25 million that has been abandoned, but he can�t simply take the U.S. dollars himself. So he is trying to find someone in [...]
For many years I have brushed my teeth with the 39 cent brushes I bought from a discount store. Of course, nowadays they cost 69 cents. I always got compliments from the dental hygienist during my annual visits on how good a job I was doing with the teeth brushing. And this in [...]
VISALIA, Calif. - “Being a chef in California and citrus go hand-in-hand.”Chef Jill Davie is a fifth generation California who grew up with lemon trees in her backyard and now lives up to her philosophy for breakfast, lunch and dinner.At the Sunkist Growers annual meeting in late February, Davie fixed a citrus and shredded wheat [...]
A Carson City man, described by his doctor as morbidly obese,Health Insurance is finding the Internet offers him an innovative way to combat his weight without entering a health club where he fears his size could bring ridicule.
Ian Kerr, 45, is working out for the first time in 15 years using an online, live, Web [...]
Health insurers have begun “taking a harder look at advanced medical scans, like CT scans,” because of cost and safety concerns, and some physicians “agree there’s emerging evidence that these scans are being over-prescribed,” the AP/San Francisco Chronicle reports. According to the AP/Chronicle, health insurers have begun to require more preauthorizations for such medical scans [...]
“The state of gay unions” is a series that looks at modern gay relationships.Robert is tall, dark, trim and obsessed with love handles; Sung Hee is a wild-haired fashionista in love with the gays. Together, they’re a real-life “Will %26 Grace” — crazily connected, charmingly codependent and for years comfortably bound [...]
