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Tobacco control programs reduce health-care costs  Tobacco control programs not only reduce smoking, but reduce personal health care costs as well, says new research published in PLoS Medicine by Stanton Glantz and colleagues at the University of California San Francisco.

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 shows.

Uninsured pay $30 billion for health care: study  Americans who go without health insurance for any part of 2008 will spend $30 billion out of pocket for health care and they will get $56 billion worth of free care, according to a report released on Monday.

Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report Highlights Developments Related To Health Care Issues In New Hampshire U.S. Senate ...  Summaries of developments related to health care issues in the New Hampshire U.S. Senate race between former Gov. Jeanne Shaheen D and incumbent Sen. John Sununu R appear below.

Baptist-DeSoto Hospital signs deal with United Healthcare  Hospital group Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp. has signed an agreement that will make it easier for people insured through United Healthcare to seek treatment at Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto in Southaven.

Uninsured spend $30 billion out of pocket for health care  Americans who lack health insurance for any part of 2008 will spend $30 billion out of pocket for health services and receive $56 billion in uncompensated care while uninsured. Government programs pay for about three-quarters, or roughly $43 billion, of the uncompensated care bill, researchers report in today's Web Exclusive edition of Health Affairs. The researchers define uncompensated care as ...

Experts: Insurance won't solve health care problems  With national heath care reform high on the list of priorities for Democrats this election year, several leading health experts suggested Monday that insurance should not be the No.

Hospital deal could up ante  WILKES-BARRE — An already hard-fought Scranton/Wilkes-Barre hospital marketplace could grow even more competitive, if Community Health Systems buys Wyoming Valley Health Care System.

Health Care on the Mississippi, Part IV  This is the fourth in a series examining how the candidates’ health care proposals will affect ordinary people who live in the river town of Helena-West Helena, Arkansas, and how the press could cover that angle.

Government boost for low-cost health care funding  Low-cost health care has been given a boost with the Government announcing a further funding increase into schemes promoting cheaper primary health care.

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.

VA health care: The new technology  Editor's note: In Montana and the nation, the cost and availability of health care has become a burning issue. Nearly one-fifth of the state's citizens are without health insurance and health care costs continue to climb faster than inflation.

Public health and health care recommendations  About 94,000 Iowans over age 60 now need help with at least one or more of the following: housing, mental health, home care or supportive services, clean-up or case management, the task force report says.

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.

Reception scheduled for hospital CEO  Bolivar Medical Center will host a meet and greet tomorrow at 5 p.m. for the new chief executive officer and his family. Wes Sigler, who has worked in the health care field for 18 years, officially took on his new title and position on July 14 and has been at the hospital full-time since Aug. 1.

Federal grant to focus on improving health care for rural vets  GRAND FORKS, N.D. - The University of North Dakota's Center for Rural Health says it's joining with the Fargo Veterans Administration Medical Center in a program to improve health care for rural veterans. Advertisement: YMCA YMCA FAll Program Registration Registration opens August 12 for Members and August 13 for NonMembers. Call 701 293-9622 for details.

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.

How Crafty Health Insurers Are Denying Care  You can fight back when your health plan says no.

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.

Health care advocates: Obama can fix system  The problem that has defied a solution for decades and has left nearly 50 million Americans without heath coverage is on a trajectory to getting fixed, advocates for a public-run system said Monday. “The only question is how long will it take to get there,” U.S. Rep. John Conyers Jr., D-Mich., told about 100 people at a meeting of the Progressive Democrats of America. Standing in the way, he ...