Topic: Health Care Policy

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In Hawaii, there are about 130 suicides a year according to Department of Health statistics. That's about one every three days. For every suicide...
Only 45 percent of the 354 million annual visits for acute care in the United States are made to patients' personal physicians, as Americans...

Healthy health debate needed

Dr. Lloyd Maybaum's suggestion that wealthy queue-jumpers could reduce health-care waiting times might never fly, but how refreshing to hear a ...
Navistar Inc. executives turned up the heat on smokers five years ago as part of a pioneering move to improve employee health and rein in medical...
Workers are shouldering more of the costs of health coverage than ever before amid stagnant wages and a weak economy, according to a benchmark...
Tom McGraw, president of Troy-based McGraw Wentworth, didn't mince words when he told an audience of about 50 human resource directors and benefit...
At Colorlines, Michelle Chen writes, State Lawmakers Harden the Colorline in Reproductive Health: A handy legislative round-up from the Center for...

Pawlenty s tiresome health care games

PAWLENTY'S TIRESOME HEALTH CARE GAMES.... Last week, Minnesota, Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R), desperate to pander to the party's base in advance of his...

Pawlenty seeks Medicaid funds

Tim Pawlenty's decision to turn down some of the money associated with the health care overhaul was probably good national Republican...
Tuesday marks the four-year anniversary of Katie Couric's assumption of the anchor chair for the CBS Evening News on Tuesday, September 5, 2006. To...