Sometimes just offering your two cents worth can be empowering.
That’s what a dozen local residents did Saturday at the Cabell County Public Library, spending about two hours discussing health care reform as part of President-elect Barack Obama’s plan to incorporate the public in the process.
Whatever solutions Obama may choose to include in any reform he [...]
Major inequalities in health and lifeexpectancy persist worldwide, according to an independent WorldHealth Organisation commission which on Thursday called for allcountries to offer universal health care.
Huge discrepancies also exist within countries, includingScotland where a boy born in the poor Glasgow suburb of Caltoncan expect to live to 54, 28 years less than one born inaffluent [...]
Finally, the Democratic primary race is over. Above and beyond her persistence and her historic effort as a female presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton’s campaign legacy is health insurance truth.
Forty-seven million Americans do not have health insurance. According to Consumer Reports, nearly half, 49 percent of Americans, are unprepared financially to cope with a costly medical [...]
The economy and the Iraq War may be the top concerns of voters this election year, but the cost and availability of health care is close behind.
It’s an issue regularly discussed on the campaign trail, and the next president is likely to seek significant changes in the way health care services are delivered and paid [...]
People in the United States and Western Europe are broadly dissatisfied with their health care systems, a new poll shows, with Americans even more upset than Europeans.
More than 4 in 5 Americans say the U.S. health system needs fundamental changes or even a complete overhaul, according to the poll by Harris Interactive for the International [...]
While your article points out that I helped draft the principles for universal coverage outlined by the Institute of Medicine in 2004, it may create the impression that UnitedHealth Group was reluctant to support them when faced with a shareholder resolution.
In fact, our company has publicly embraced and acted on its commitment to universal access [...]
As college and high school seniors graduate from schools across the state this spring, lawmakers are reminding them to take advantage of a new law that will allow many to stay on their parents‘ health insurance plan until they turn 25.
The new law, which passed in the General Assembly last year and went into effect [...]
How big might the change be? Well, you might be taxed on what your employer pays for your health insurance coverage, for instance. (Right now, you’re probably not, if you work for a big company.) Or you might be guaranteed health insurance, with the government picking up the tab.
Indiana and North Carolina Democrats are to [...]
Washington (dbTechno) - One of the biggest topics on the minds of many Americans is health care. This has far from a quiet subject between Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Clinton has come out and promised that if she becomes president, she would place a cap on health care insurance. She revealed [...]
Clinton spent all day in the key Super Tuesday state of California yesterday and is planning to do the same today. Obama too started the day in California before heading to New Mexico.Clinton has a good network, and the support of the party establishment, in California, New York, New Jersey and the other key states, [...]
