Seasonal firefighters seek health care coverage
WCMH Columbus Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:41 PM PDT
DENVER (AP) -- They work the front lines of the nation's most explosive wildfires, navigating treacherous terrain, dense walls of smoke and tall curtains of flame. Yet thousands of the nation's seasonal firefighters have no health insurance for themselves or their families.... |
Iglesia Ni Cristo Sets 3 New Guinness World Records
Noypi Stuff Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:40 PM PDT
Iglesia ni Cristo Medical Mission Iglesia ni Cristo broke 3 Guinness world records during a medical-dental mission at the weekend. Dubbed as "Iglesia ni Cristo International Aid for Humanity," the outreach program was attended by 4,128 individual who benefited from the dental health check, beating the record of 3,377 previously held by India. It also broke the Guinness world records for the most ... |
Pa. eliminating easy stopgap health coverage for poor
Philly.com Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:39 PM PDT
If you are poor in Pennsylvania and temporarily disabled, a health-care worker can fill out a one-page form that qualifies you to receive medical care paid for by the state. |
Health insurance: Nice to have it; everyone needs it
Everett Herald Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:38 PM PDT
Normal, normal and normal. My medical test results recently arrived in the mailbox. Cholesterol, blood glucose, mammogram and other tests, they all came back fine. |
Mayor Finds "Big Gulp" Protest Hard To Swallow
NY1 News Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:38 PM PDT
City Council members and dozens of advocates who oppose Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposed sugar drink ban took their grievances to City Hall Monday evening for a so-called Million Big Gulp March, but the mayor stressed that the measure helps battle the rising health care costs of obesity. |
Web tool provides health care analytics
Small Business Times Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:35 PM PDT
There may be no other industry that is regulated as much as health care. According to Adrian Velasquez, president of Wauwatosa-based Fi-Med Management Inc., declining reimbursement rates and a tough economy have increased audits and investigations of hospital systems across the country. |
Golf: Johnsons will donate to Cedar Rapids health clinic
The Des Moines Register Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:33 PM PDT
Darlene Schmidt has known Zach Johnson longer than his 36 years on this earth. 'I've known him since his momma (Julie) was pregnant with her firstborn, who she was so excited about,' Schmidt said. |
Accountable Care Organizations to begin serving Medicare patients in Iowa
The Gazette Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:32 PM PDT
Four Iowa networks are among 89 new Accountable Care Organizations announced Monday to begin serving Medicare beneficiaries in 40 states. In the Corridor, University of Iowa Affiliated Health Providers LC, located in Iowa City, and Iowa Health Accountable Care LC â€" located in Des Moines, but partnering with St. Luke’s Hospital and Cardiologists PC in [...] |
Texas Gov. Rick Perry ‘proud’ to deprive people of health care
Arkansas News Bureau Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:26 PM PDT
We have officially gone down the rabbit hole. Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced today that he was “proud†to say Texas would not avail itself of the expansion of Medicaid provided to the working poor under federal health care legislation. He’ll give up $164 BILLION in federal money that would provide health care coverage for [...] |
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