Topic: Social Policy

3 cases of encephalitis in horses in SW Alabama

State health officials report three confirmed cases of eastern equine encephalitis in horses in southwest Alabama.. . Health officials said...

Pa. Mayor: We'll Take Town's Immigration Law To SC

Mayor Lou Barletta is pledging to go to the Supreme Court after a federal appeals court ruled his town cannot enforce a crackdown on illegal ...

Elder Care Law in Nebraska

Medicare and Medicaid Medicare is a federal health program that benefits the elderly. It is administered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human...

Welfare budget 'faces £4bn cuts'

Chancellor George Osborne has signalled a renewed crackdown on the "out of control" welfare budget - announcing further cuts of £4 billion would be ...
President Barack Obama's top health official on Thursday put the insurance industry on notice that the administration will not tolerate blaming ...

Lansley denies NHS Direct closure

The Health Secretary has been accused of a climbdown over plans to scrap NHS Direct.. . Andrew Lansley said he had "not announced plans to scrap ...

$55 billion is "practically nothing"?

by Bryan Quigley Earlier this week, the respected medical journal Health Affairs published a study that estimates the negative cost of America's...
TPM's Brian Beutler has done some great background work on the catfood commission, including this look at how heavily weighted it is with...
As full-day kindergarten gets underway in many B.C. schools, some parents are wondering if their children are ready to spend six hours away from...

There's gambling in this gin joint?

A NEW study just released by the Centres for Medicaid and Medicare Services, a government agency, suggests that the sweeping set of health reforms...