Virtually all of health reform legislation passed over the past 30 years was passed through the reconciliation process.
Health officials warn consumers not to eat three products made by Queseria Bendita.
“. . .right now, Democrats are continuing to work behind closed doors, putting the finishing touches on yet another massive health care bill Americans can’t afford and don’t want.”
Compromise ends a battle between the hospital and neighborhood over expansion plan.
About 46 million Americans, about 15 percent of the population, do not have insurance, a number some believe is now larger because of the recession.
Insurance industry is trying to block a vote they know they will lose, Obama argues
Proposal would give some unemployed an extra six months of help paying for COBRA coverage.
People who signed up when it began nine months ago saw their subsidy end Nov. 30.
Sarah Goodwin, 25, has chronic fatigue syndrome and relies on Medicaid for coverage.
Scammers say VA prescription procedures have changed and ask for vets’ credit card numbers.
The coach will provide same-day mammography services at the Evergreen clinics in Bothell, Sammamish and Duvall every week on a regular rotation.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today that it was reviewing the safety of the weight-loss drug orlistat after receiving reports that 32 people using the drug developed severe liver damage, including reports of six cases of liver failure.
Orlistat is the active ingredient in the prescription weight-loss drug Xenical and the over-the-counter product [...]
An unusual coalition of groups, including American Medical Association; the Federation of American Hospitals; the drug industry group, PhRMA, the service employees’ union SEIU, and the FamiliesUSA, a health reform advocacy group has launched an $12 million TV ad campaign called for the enactment of health-care reform.
On its Web site the group, Americans for Stable [...]
By Sarah Varney, NPR News
This story is from KHN’s partner NPR
August 11, 2009
Amid the debate about reforming heath care in the United States, it’s tough to turn on your television these days without hearing a political ad condemning the Canadian health care system.
One such ad from Americans for Prosperity features a woman talking of her [...]
Seattle’s KPLU reporter Keith Seinfeld has a story on NPR this week about Swedish Hospital’s new “medical home” clinic in Ballard.
LocalHealthGuide’s story from March is below.
By Keith Seinfeld, NPR News
August 7, 2009
This story comes from KHN partner NPR
When President Obama and other Democrats talk about changing the health care system, one phrase that comes up [...]
Insurance Agents Look Into The Future, See Uncertainty And “Opportunity”
By Jaclyn Schiff – Kaiser Health News
August 5, 2009
For the tens of thousands of individual insurance agents nationwide, the idea of a health system overhaul hits close to home – and work. The changes currently under consideration could radically alter how they do business.
For example, there [...]
Lack of patients for clinical trials slows cancer research
New York Times reporter Gina Kolata leads her story about how the lack of patients willing to participate in studies is hobbling cancer research with a quote from Dr. Scott Ramsey of Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
Dr. Ramsay, a cancer researcher and health economist at the Seattle [...]
By Jenny Gold – Kaiser Health News
July 29, 2009
As Congress contemplates taxing insurers for gold-plated health benefits to pay for a health overhaul, it might catch another group in its net: employers who “self-insure”—or pay for their workers’ health bills on their own.
The Senate Finance Committee is considering a proposal by Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., [...]
In his weekly address, President Barack Obama said health-care reform legislation now under consideration in Congress will reduce the cost of health insurance for small businesses.
Because small businesses lack the bargaining power of big businesses and have higher administrative costs, small businesses pay 18 percent more for their employees’ health coverage, Mr. Obama said.
“As a [...]
The Western Washington chapter of the Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), which advocates a single-payer health-care system, will meet tonight at the Swedish Medical Center’s Cherry Hill Campus to discuss the latest developments in the health-care reform debate in Washington, D.C.
Fifteen people will be able to participate in the meeting via the Internet.
To [...]
By Austin Jenkins, NPR News
This story comes from our partner National Public Radio
Deborah Llavanes is one of a growing number of middle-income Americans who, because of the recession, have lost their jobs and their health coverage. For the first time in her life, Llavanes is turning to a community health clinic for her medical needs.
At [...]
By Joseph Shapiro
NPR – a Kaiser Health News partner
July 08, 2009
Until recently, it looked like long-term care was not going to be a serious part of any potential health care overhaul.
But that changed when the Obama administration this week endorsed a new government social insurance program that would help people put aside money [...]
According to a new survey, only one in three people know the proper temperature to cook a hamburger in order for it to be safe to eat, the Washington State Department of Health reports.
(Answer: When the internal temperature reaches 160°F)
“Some people think they know how to tell when burgers and other meats are cooked thoroughly, [...]
By Jordan Rau – Kaiser Health News
JUL 02, 2009
A half-hour into “Money-Driven Medicine,” a new documentary that skewers the U.S. health care system for its insensitivity toward patients and excessive spending, a father talks about the doctors who treated his toddler for leukemia.
As melancholy music plays in the background and photographs of his bald daughter [...]
One out of five people in the U.S. infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, doesn’t know it, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports.
CDC recommends that everyone between the ages of 13 and 64 be tested for HIV at least once as part of their routine health care.
People who are [...]
By Phil Galewitz
June 25, 2009
In many ways, seniors have the least to gain from an overhaul of the health care system. Thanks to Medicare, they’re the only age group that already has universal coverage. And they have had a drug benefit since 2006.
That’s why, in national surveys, seniors are significantly less likely than younger adults [...]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first generic version of the “morning after” emergency contraceptive pill.
Previously the only version of the pill on the market was Plan B, which was available without a prescription for women 18 and older and with a prescription for those 17 and under.
The new generic will, [...]
By Lori Whittaker, M.D.
At no time in our history has so much health information been available to so many people in so many different mediums and forums—on television, the internet, pod casts, in self-help books and even on Twitter.
As a physician, I am pleased that my patients have access to information that can help them [...]
Consumers should not eat any varieties of prepackaged Nestle Toll House refrigerated cooke dough because of concerns the products may be contaminated with the bacterium E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warns.
E. coli O157:H7 can cause severe blood diarrhea and in some cases a potentially lethal condition called hemolytic uremic syndrome.
Nestle [...]
Invisible Families: The homeless you don't see
They squeeze in with relatives, couch surf with friends or camp out in cars. More families are quietly becoming homeless, driven to the edge by a lack of jobs and affordable housing. The Seattle Times and its local news partners tackle the topic together. Project home
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