11/29/2008 News For: Catastrophic Bariatric Surgery InsuranceOhio Senior Health Insurance Information Program to host Medicare Check-up Day Dec. 14 The Ohio Senior Health Insurance Information Program will host Medicare Check-up Day 2008 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Dec. 15 at Lakewood Public Library Main Branch, 15425 Detroit Ave. Representatives will provide information on recent Medicare changes, explain the... Florida children without health insurance Nearly 19 percent of Florida children do not have health insurance, the second highest percentage in the country. Racine Mayor To Have Surgery RACINE, Wis. -- Racine Mayor Gary Becker will have surgery next week to have a cancerous kidney removed. According to the Racine Journal Times, the mayor sent an e-mail to city workers and officials Wednesday, telling them of his upcoming operation. Insurance battle ongoing Attorney General Mike Cox continues to butt heads with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan over legislation in Lansing that would overhaul the insurance market for individual policy purchasers. Medicare?s Too Costly Private Plans Congress must remove unjustified subsidies to inefficient private health insurance plans that have added to the cost and complexity of the Medicare program. Uninsured Likely Organ Donors, But Not Recipients FRIDAY, Nov. 28 HealthDay News -- Americans without health insurance are about 20 times more likely to donate a liver or kidney for transplant than to receive one, a new study says. Many continue to rely on ERs The vast majority of Bay State residents have health insurance and a primary-care physician, but many are still relying on hospital emergency rooms for care that could have been handled less expensively by their family doctors, according to a new survey. Hospital confession makes dream come true Matt Krueger, 19, was recovering from his first colon cancer surgery on the day he confessed his dream to a hospital nurse. He wanted to get his 1999 Camaro Z28 out onto one of NASCAR's big tracks, to see if it would actually go the 155 mph promised on the speedometer. What Krueger didn't realize, was that his nurse knew somebody at a tire store, who knew somebody at the Carquest Corp., who knew ... Innovis drops health plan FARGO - Innovis Health in Fargo is notifying 1,500 patients that it will no longer honor Medicare Advantage health insurance plans as of April 1. They just had to do something Noreen Suszkowski has been through so much. She needed a hysterectomy when she was diagnosed with uterine cancer in 1998. During the surgery, they found she also had ovarian cancer. |




