News Source: WireTap
| 6 months ago
The Kaiser Family Foundation recently released a new and extremely important study that documents the health disparities that exist between white women and women of color...Women of color also experience high rates of inadequate health care, no...
News Source: Androscoggin News
| 6 months ago
Lack of education, poverty, unemployment, stress, and inadequate living conditions and health care coverage contribute to black women's poorer health, the study finds (Fears, Washington Post, 6/10). This information was reprinted from dailyreports.
News Source: Uinta County News
| 6 months ago
Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., said Tuesday he expects Senate health-care legislation will include provisions encouraging doctors to compare drugs and therapies for their effectiveness," Dow Jones Newswires reports. At a conference at...
News Source: Androscoggin News
| 6 months ago
Senators will likely pay for at least a portion of the expected $1 trillion-plus health reform price tag by taxing employer-provided health benefits that are significantly more expensive than the basic plan for federal employees, which costs $13,000...
News Source: Androscoggin News
| 6 months ago
President Obama urged Congress to enact into law tough financial rules requiring them to offset any new spending or taxes, but was clear that where health care is concerned, lawmakers should overlook those rules, Bloomberg reports. "Under fire from...