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Young gun eyes 9th District seat
Annapolis :: MD :: USA | about 1 hour ago
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While the 37-year-old attorney from Bloomington has never sought public office before, Young is confident he can survive the Republican primary and defeat incumbent Democrat Baron Hill to win a seat in the U.S...Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., in 1995...
Tags: Daniel.Suddeath@newsandtribune.com Todd Young, 9th district, Baron Hill, health care, Clark, District House, Floyd, Mike Sodrel, House of Representatives, district seat, Annapolis, Indiana's 9th congressional district, Eric Schansberg, Politics
The Henry Ford of Heart Surgery
Bangalore :: India | about 2 hours ago
Credibility Hair tucked into a surgical cap, eyes hidden behind thick-framed magnifying glasses, Devi Shetty leans over the sawed open chest of an 11-year-old boy, using bright blue thread to sew an artificial aorta onto his stopped heart. As Dr. Shetty pulls the...
Tags: Dr. Shetty, Indian, U.S, Narayana Hrudayalaya Hospital, Narayana Hrudayalaya Private Ltd., health care, heart surgeries, cardiac surgeries, mortality rate, heart hospitals, India, Bangalore
Brent Batten: What’s on TV? Not health care
Naples :: FL :: USA | about 3 hours ago
Credibility On the campaign trail, soon-to-be President Barack Obama promised, “I’m going to have all the negotiations around a big table...Insurance companies, drug companies — they’ll get a seat at the table, they just won’t be able to buy every chair.
Tags: health care, medical assistance, federal medical, assistance percentage, Senate Joint Economic Committee, percentage determined, Congressional Budget Office, tour golf, FMAP, Actual Medicare, Naples
Gephardt pushes for more investment in medical research, says it can cut costs, find cures
Minneapolis :: MN :: USA | about 4 hours ago
Credibility Rep. Richard Gephardt pushed Friday for Iowa to expand its focus on public health, arguing the state has the medical infrastructure in place to make it a leader in the field. "Iowa, having great research facilities, is an important part of our discussion,"...
Tags: Richard Gephardt, health care, Iowa Public Television, Minneapolis, Richard Gephardt presidential campaign, United States presidential election, Gephardt, Dick Gephardt, Health Medical Pharma
'Botax' In Senate Health Bill Upsets Plastic Surgeons
New York City :: NY :: USA | about 4 hours ago
Credibility The $848 billion health care bill unveiled Wednesday by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., includes a 5 percent tax on cosmetic procedures and surgeries. The tax, which would take effect in January, would raise an estimated $5 billion over the...
Tags: plastic surgeons, cosmetic surgeries, Senate, Botox, cosmetic procedures, health care, New York City, Liposuction, Eye surgery, Lip enhancement, Pediatric plastic surgery, Plastic surgery, Surgery, Breast implant, Social Issues
Senators told about failures in V.I. mental health care --
Road Town :: British Virgin Islands | about 4 hours ago
Credibility Senators told about failures in V.I. mental health care Friday, November 20th 2009 ST. The territory's system of providing mental health care to its citizens remains sorely lacking, some testifiers at a Senate Health Committee hearing on Thursday said.
Tags: Health Department, mental illness, health care, Arlene Monaghan, V.I, Eldra Shulterbrandt Residential Facility, Mental Health Division, Julia Sheen, British Virgin Islands, Road Town, Psychiatry, Mental health, Mental disorder, Mental health courts, National Institute of Mental Health, Social issues, Human rights, Medical ethics, Health Medical Pharma
Senate Democrats: Reform vote numbers look healthy
Lincoln :: AR :: USA | about 4 hours ago
Credibility Democrats are confident they have the votes to move health care reform forward in the Senate Saturday night when it faces its first crucial vote. Democratic leaders have been working their members hard to guarantee the 60 votes needed for the $849 billion...
Tags: Senate, health care, Lincoln, Blanche Lincoln, Members of the Louisiana House of Representatives, Ben Nelson, Mary Landrieu, Politics, Health Medical Pharma, Social Issues, Healthy Americans Act, Ron Wyden, Harry Reid, 110th United States Congress, 111th United States Congress, Healthcare reform in the United States, Medicaid, Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson, United States National Health Care Act, Health insurance, Healthcare in the United States, Healthcare in Canada, Dick Durbin, Mitch Landrieu, New Orleans mayoral election, Landrieu family, Joe Lieberman, Nuclear option, Parliamentary procedure, Filibuster, Political corruption
Michael Moore: Democrats’ Health Care Bill Is A Gift To Insurance Companies
Toronto :: Canada | about 7 hours ago
Credibility Democrats’ Health Care Bill Is A Gift To Insurance Companies Posted by JacobSloan on November 20, 2009 From Prison Planet , Michael Moore says that the Democrats’ health care bill is a scam: In a speech broadcast on Canadian television Tuesday, Michael...
Tags: health, health care, bill, healthcare bill, healthcare, Michael Moore, health insurance, insurance companies, Canada, Toronto, Health care in the United States, Health care reform in the United States, Healthcare reform in the United States, Insurance, Health Medical Pharma, Politics, Labor, Social Issues
Quiet Shift in Budget May Prompt City Job Cuts
New York :: NY :: USA | about 8 hours ago
Credibility Bloomberg says that he is trying to avert laying off city workers, his aides have quietly encouraged such job cuts through an internal budget maneuver, according to city documents and interviews with those who have viewed them. But the administration,...
Tags: fringe benefit, job cut, labor cost, government worker, health care, budgeting watchdog, New York, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Business Finance, Politics, Michael Bloomberg, Social Security, Kansas state budget, Social Issues, Labor
New Mexico considers Medicaid overhaul to cut costs because of looming budget shortfall
Santa Fé :: Argentina | about 9 hours ago
Credibility Gov. Bill Richardson's administration is proposing to overhaul Medicaid and scale back health care services to some lower-income New Mexicans to cope with a projected budget shortfall of $300 million next year in the state's largest health care program.
Tags: health care, budget shortfall, Argentina, Santa Fé, Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson, United States Department of Health and Human Services, Uninsured in the United States, TennCare, Medicaid Drug Rebate Program, Healthcare reform in the United States, Healthcare in the United States, Medicaid, Health Medical Pharma, Social Issues
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