10/13/2008 News For: Average Advanced Health care PaymentQ.A on health care with U.S. Senate candidates Question: What should Congress do to increase the availability of health insurance coverage to the uninsured? Should government take a larger role in providing health coverage, should it be left to the private sector, or a combination? Sen. Mitch McConnell: "There are a number of common-sense steps Congress should take to lower health care costs and improve access to health insurance for ... Who Will Voters Pick to Tackle Nation's Health Care Problems? The U-M C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health finds the majority of likely voters believe Barack Obama can best handle the country's biggest health care issues, including the high cost of health insurance, and the millions of U.S. adults and children without insurance. Bakken gives health care in Hawaii a strong pulse In retirement on the Big Island of Hawaii, a Minnesota medical engineering legend is experimenting with health care. The small business owner?s guide to the Presidential election: Health care John McCain and Barack Obama would go in opposite directions when it comes to the employer?s role in providing health insurance. Candidates' health plans compared DURING A discussion on health care in last week's presidential debate, Sen. Barack Obama described health insurance as a "right" while Sen. John McCain called it a "responsibility." Major health care reform likely, says Kaiser's CEO George Halvorson, CEO of Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente, recently talked with the Portland Business Journal about health reform. The vertically integrated health system operates the second-largest health insurance plan in Oregon, with 468,603 members at the end of the second quarter, in addition to running Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Center in Clackamas and myriad outpatient clinics ... Hopkins nabs $1.1B health contract Johns Hopkins Medical Services Corp. renewed a decade-old contract with the Department of Defense this month to provide health care services to military families and retirees. The deal is worth $1.1 billion over the next five years. Pa. health-care battle shows states struggle alone When Gov. Ed Rendell first proposed an ambitious plan to expand subsidized health insurance to uninsured Pennsylvania adults, he wanted the state to step into a void left by the federal government's failure to act. D.C. rejects CareFirst?s latest plan for charity care D.C. lawmakers have rejected CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield?s latest proposal to solve a years-long battle over contributions that the region?s largest health insurer must make to community health care programs in the District. Hemet, Menifee Valley health care workers call one-day walkout Monday Health care workers at hospitals in Hemet and Menifee Valley will stage a one-day strike starting at 6 a.m. Monday to protest actions by the public hospital district that runs the facilities, according to a news release from SEIU United Healthcare Workers-West. |


