The Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner explains how the new health reform law will effect you and when the changes will take effect.
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Washington state health officials have detected the bacteria E. coli in the water supply of the Riverbend Homesites development in eastern King County and are warning residents to boil their drinking water before use.
About 1,600 people live at the development, which is just off Interstate 90 Exit 32 east of North Bend [...]
The Boards of Health of five Puget Sound counties and the Clark County in the southwestern corner of Washington state have called on Congress to enact “comprehensive health reform” this year.
Left to right: Rick Talbert, Chair, Tacoma/Pierce County Board of Health; Stanwood Mayor Dianne White, member, Snohomish County Board of Health; Kitsap County Commissioner Steve [...]
If you want to let your senators and representatives know your views on healthcare reform, you can contact them through their Websites listed below.
To contact your U.S. Senators and Representative click on the links below:
Senator Patty Murray
Senator Maria Cantwell
Representative Jay Inslee (Ist District)
Representative Rick Larson (2nd District)
Representative Brian Baird (3rd District)
Representative Doc Hastings (4th District)
Representative [...]
Facing a 43 percent budget cut, Washington state’s Basic Health, a state-subsidized health insurance plan for the working poor, will raise rates rather than drop enrollees, the Washington Health Care Authority announced today.
Under one scenario that was under consideration to cope with the budget cuts, as many as 40,000 of the just under 100,000 enrollees [...]
Umpqua Dairy Products, Co. of Roseburg, Oregon has expanded its recall of its Tin Roof Sundae ice cream products because they contain peanuts from the Peanut Corporation of America, whose plant in Blakely, Georgia has been identified as the source of a Salmonella outbreak that has sickened at least 666 people in 45 states and [...]
Three Washington companies have issued recalls of peanut products due to concerns that they might be contaminated with the bacterium Salmonella.
All the companies obtained peanut products from the Peanut Corporation of America, whose plant in Blakely, Georgia has been identified with an Salmonella outbreak that has sickened more than 640 people nationwide and has been [...]
Like the rest of the country, Washington State has a health-care crisis: costs are out of control, quality of care is uneven, and many state residents go without coverage.
In “Dear Governor: About That Healthcare Crisis“, Edmonds editor and publisher D.J. Wilson has put together a highly readable collection of articles by 20 people with expertise [...]
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