| Polk Committee Cuts $15 Million From Health Care Spending HEADHEADBy ROBIN WILLIAMS ADAMSTHE LEDGERBARTOW | When the money's not there, the money's not there.And something has to go.For Polk County's sales-tax-funded indigent health care, make that $15 million worth of somethings. Specter talks about energy, health care at Chambersburg town meeting CHAMBERSBURG, PA. Questions about the energy crisis and health care came up several times Monday during an open house town meeting hosted by U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter. Health Care Help Is On The Way In Mississippi County BLYTHEVILLE, AR KAIT -- Health care help on the way for some in Mississippi County. Arkansas Lawmakers Discuss Health Care Agenda For Next General Assembly Arkansas lawmakers will focus on health issues, including access to care, emergency care, childhood obesity and Medicaid, in the 87th General Assembly, state Surgeon General Joe Thompson said Wednesday at the second annual Arkansas Health Summit, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports. Early Glance: Health Care Equipment companies NEW YORK Shares of some top health care equipment companies are down at 10 a.m.: Baxter fell $.53 or .8 percent, to $69.96. Becton Dickinson fell $.94 or 1.1 percent, to $87.55. Uninsured Get Less Health Care Than Insured MONDAY, Aug. 25 HealthDay News -- Uninsured Americans will spend $30 billion out of pocket for health care, and receive $56 billion in uncompensated care in 2008, new research... NPR's 'Morning Edition' Looks At Proposals By Major Presidential Candidates To Limit Health Care Spending NPR's "Morning Edition" on Friday looked at proposals by presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain Ariz. and presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama Ill. to limit health care costs. Amtrak and Health care 287136. Amtrak is typical of state run opere ations.Costly and inefficient. Just ponder the concept of the federal government running a "universal"health care program!The working stiffs would be made to shoulder even more of the costs than we are now. 2 doctors, nurse charged with health care fraud ST. LOUIS - Two St. Louis-area doctors and a nurse have been indicted on multiple charges of conspiracy to commit health care fraud. They are accused of working together to defraud Medicare and Medicaid. AIU adds health care MBA American InterContinental University Houston has added a health care management concentration to its masters in business administration roster. PM stresses on urgent growth in health care Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday said one of the major challenges facing the country was to provide adequate health care facilities to the growing population and address the shortage of trained medical personnel. Patrick dropped the ball on health care Gov. Deval Patrick missed an opportunity to burnish his image as a champion of his state’s thriving biomedical enterprise when he signed a broad-ranging health care bill passed by his Legislature. How Crafty Health Insurers Are Denying Care You can fight back when your health plan says no. Health Care Rally for Universal Treatment After one woman's son died of colon cancer, she's hoping to save other lives through a health care rally. Sentencing set for former health care system chief Sentencing is set for Dec. 5 for a former southern Illinois health system chief who admits he failed to pay more than $1.7 million in federal employment taxes to the Internal Revenue Service. |


