12/25/2008 News For: Low Cost Family Health care NowPennsylvania gov's top health care aide to leave HARRISBURG ? The director of Gov. Ed Rendell's efforts to expand health insurance to low-income children and adults, help doctors pay their malpractice bills and modernize Pennsylvania's health care system is stepping down. NIH Study Examines How Breastfeeding Impacts The Cost Of Health Care For Very Low Birth Weight Infants The National Institutes of Health NIH has awarded nearly $3 million to support Rush University Medical Center's study analyzing how human breast milk impacts the health outcomes and health care cost savings for very low birth weight infants - babies less than 1500 grams. Pa. gov's top health care aide to leave HARRISBURG ? The director of Gov. Ed Rendell's efforts to expand health insurance to low-income children and adults and modernize Pennsylvania's health care system is stepping down. There really is affordable health care Dear Savvy Senior: Where can a person turn to for low-cost medical, dental and eye care? I?m 62 years old, recently uninsured and living on a tight budget. ? Can?t Wait for Medicare Gerald McEntee: Health Care Reform Needs a Public Option If we fail to insist on a public health insurance option as part of any health care reform legislation enacted in Congress, we won't have the kind of change that America voted for in November. Newspapers Examine Health Care Issues Prompted By Current Economic Recession Two newspapers recently published articles that examined the health care issues faced by many individuals as a result of the current economic recession. Summaries appear below.Raleigh News & Observer: The News & Observer on Monday examined the problems with medical costs that many individuals face amid the current economic recession. Low-cost clinic's financial health needs a booster shot Staff ?members at the Community Health Centers of Pinellas see evidence of the bad economy on a daily basis. More people are coming in who have lost their jobs and their health insurance. Michigan's choice for prison health care panned by foes Michigan is hiring a new company to treat prisoners with medical problems after investigators criticized the existing health provider for low productivity and not having enough doctors. Doctors offer free care for needy CEDAR RAPIDS and#8212; Good news for Linn County residents who could use some and#8212; the uninsured.Eleven doctors have enrolled in Linn County Public Access, a new program for the county that matches low-income adults without health insurance with doctors willing to donate their services.Patients who qualify can see doctors for free.Linn County modeled its program on Project Access in ... Kaiser donates $50,000 to Health Express for transportation to doctor appointments Kaiser Permanente recently donated $50,000 to Auburn-based Health Express to expand its free and low-cost transportation services for patients who don't have access to reliable and affordable transportation to and from their medical appointments. A project of the nonprofit Placer Collaborative Network and Seniors First, the Health Express program was launched late last year to serve western ... |




