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Submitted by seachange on Sat, 2006-03-18 01:21.
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John M. Kefalas, Fort Collins Coloradoan, March 17, 2006
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State Rep. Bob McCluskey often says he is "getting things
password done for Fort Collins." I say it is appropriate to raise questions
about this claim to inform and engage the voting public. The
bills he is sponsoring this year are good as far as they go.
However, his bills do not go nearly far enough.
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These times of challenge and opportunity require a prophetic
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Massachusetts: Romney is urged to
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Submitted by seachange on Sat, 2006-03-18 01:19.
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Conservatives hit employer assessment.
Frank Phillips, Boston Globe, March 17, 2006
CategoriesCaught between his support for expanded health coverage and
his opposition to tax increases, Governor Mitt Romney is
bioterror/biowar being urged by fiscal conservatives to veto part of a sweeping
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DC - called on Romney yesterday to resist a proposal to
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Politics hobbles health
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Boston Globe Editorial, March 17, 2006
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In the five years that George Bush has been president, the
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commissioner for just one year. One reason is that Senate
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Democrats have balked at confirming a leader for the agency
as long as it rejects the advice of its staff and a panel of
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outside advisers and refuses to allow over-the-counter sales of
a morning-after contraceptive. ... Politics
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in stolen tissue case
Submitted by seachange on Sat, 2006-03-18 01:15.
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Associated Press, March 17, 2006
Concord - The state has uncovered more cases in which New
Hampshire patients received, or could have received,
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transplants from tissue stolen from dead bodies, health
officials said Friday.
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Thirty-three patients in New Hampshire are known to have
received transplants using stolen tissue, health Commissioner Labor Party
John Stephen said. In 12 other cases, investigators have not
yet determined whether stolen tissue shipped to the state was LabourStart
used in transplants, he said. ... NH
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Insurance Reforms We Should Try.
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In the March 23 New York Review of Books, Paul Krugman
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Radio commentator and author Jim Hightower (sort of the
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for Single Payer, the group pushing for universal healthcare, at PNHP
its fourth annual Health Care Weekend on March 25 – 26.
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Hightower will speak to the group on March 26, at 11 AM, at
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will punish GOP lawmakers at the polls for missteps in the
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new Medicare prescription drug program, voted Wednesday to
authorize the government to lengthen the sign-up period for Vermont Workers
the benefit and to negotiate cut-rate prices with drug
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The Senate action provided fresh evidence that the
prescription drug insurance program, which President Bush
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Niles - City council has agreed to consider a resolution
throwing its support to a proposed statewide health-care plan.
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Lawmakers decided Wednesday that the resolution will be
prepared by Law Director J. Terrence Dull supporting the
Single Payer Action Network, or SPAN.
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Leonard Grbinick of Austintown, chairman of the Mahoning
Valley Chapter of Health Care For All Ohioans, told council
that the statewide group is working to achieve reform of the
health insurance system so that every resident is guaranteed
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Kevin Freking, Associated Press, March 16, 2006
Washington - Scores of doctors will stop seeing new Medicare
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government goes ahead with a proposed cut in their
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reimbursement rates, the American Medical Association
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The association is the lead lobbying group for physicians in
Washington. It's calling for changes in the formula used to
reimburse doctors for more than 7,000 health care services.
The formula calls for a cut of about 4.6 percent next year. ...
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HMO aims to link with more hospitals, increase members.
Jeffrey Krasner, Boston Globe, March 16, 2006
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Massachusetts' second-largest
health insurer, is looking beyond the state's borders to expand
its network of hospitals and add more members.
Harvard Pilgrim recently contracted with nine hospitals and
their physician groups in central and northern New
Hampshire, giving members access to caregivers throughout
the state. ... Harvard
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Romney take on assessment viewed as
key as health talks wind down
Submitted by seachange on Sat, 2006-03-18 01:00.
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Amy Lambiaso, State House News Service, March 15, 2006
Boston - Legislative leaders today said a compromise health
care plan that will reach the House and Senate floors next
week will charge an assessment to nearly all employers and
within three years provide insurance to up to 95 percent of
those without it.
House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi and Senate President Robert
Travaglini, addressing the League of Women Voters (LOWV)
today, told the group that the legislative accord will require
individuals to purchase insurance, increase transparency
within the health care industry, and make state subsidized
products available to income-eligible residents.
Those provisions have been the building blocks of legislative
plans aimed at reducing the number of state residents without
health insurance. Travaglini and DiMasi also said the
compromise retains a $62-per-worker fee annual assessment
for employers who presently offer insurance, and adds a new
$295-per-employee charge to companies with more than 10
employees who do not provide coverage.
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Michael Duffy, Mayo News, March 15, 2006
Representatives of the Irish Nurses’ Organisation are this
week to meet with management of Mayo General Hospital in
Castlebar to express serious concerns at the amount of patients
being treated on hospitals trolleys.
The number of patients being treated on trolleys has been
alarmingly high in February and March and last week
members of Castlebar Town Council stated they would stage a
protest at the gates of the hospital if the situation does not
improve by the end of March. ... Nurses
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Nurses paid £32 an hour
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Belfast Telegraph, March 11, 2006
Nurses at one of the province's leading intensive care units are
being paid almost three times the average hourly rate.
The figures revealed by the BBC found that agency nurses at
the Royal Victoria Hospital are being paid £32 per hour to
work in the cardiac intensive care unit, while most NHS 'E'
grade nurses would get a maximum of £11.65 per hour.
The hospital admitted to paying the money to the Mayfair
private recruitment agency for the specialist nurses. ... Nurses
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Elderly woman died on trolley in
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Ali Bracken, Irish Times, March 11, 2006
An elderly woman died of a brain haemorrhage on a trolley in
a nurses' tea station at the Mater hospital in Dublin after
waiting for four hours to be seen by a doctor because her
condition was not considered a priority, a consultant at the
hospital told an inquest yesterday.
Eamonn Brazil, consultant in emergency medicine at the
Mater, said that Nancy Lucas (74), of Woodhazel Close,
Ballymun, was placed in "category three" of the medical
queue when she presented at the hospital after having a stroke,
since she was quite alert at that point. ... Elderly
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Irish News, March 5, 2006
The two main nurses’ unions have called for clear guidelines
for whistleblowers in the health sector in the wake of the
Michael Neary report.
The former obstetrician had carried out 129 hysterectomies at
Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda before the alert
was raised in 1998 by a midwife concerned that many of the
procedures were unnecessary. This was subsequently
confirmed.
Unions have claimed midwives could have stepped in to stop
the obstetrician from removing women's wombs if a culture of
silence had not existed. ... Nurses
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