| Search 1) News For: Illinois Free Health care Army Reduces Service Obligation for Health Care Officers to Two Years The United States Army Medical Department announced today it has implemented a portion of the Army's Officer Accession Pilot Program OAPP which permits it to reduce the Military Service Obligation MSO period to two years for experienced health care professionals ages 43 to 60 years old, seeking initial appointment as an Officer in all Army Medical Department Corps. Clinic offering free therapy in aid of cancer care THERAPISTS at the Hawthorn Health Clinic will be working for free later this month to raise money for cancer care. Health savings accounts expand as care costs rise When workers throughout the country get the chance to make changes to their health insurance coverage this fall, some may find that their employer is offering a new option: health savings accounts. Public hearing on government-health-plan bill set Thursday CHAMPAIGN ��� Are you disgruntled about not being able to afford health insurance? Or not being able to afford medical care even when you do have insurance? Here's your chance to tell your legislators what you think of a proposal to provide health care for everyone in Illinois through a government-sponsored, single-payer insurance plan. A public hearing on the Health Care for All Illinois Act ... Children's Health Care Coverage Awareness With school back in session cold and flu germs spread like wildfire. A doctor visit is often needed for sick kids but if the parents don't have health insurance that treatment is often missed. But LeAnn Wallace reports health care for kids is obtained more easily than many parents know. Free health cover for NREGA workers After financial inclusion and life insurance cover, workers under the UPA's government flagship programme NREGA will get free health insurance cover. Agency's chief diagnoses ills of health care across Illinois Wonder what health care issues most concern the medical profession? In the following report, Dr. Shastri Swaminathan, president of the Illinois State Medical Society, talks to The News-Gazette about what's on doctors' legal and legislative agendas right now. Illinois Gov. Blagojevich's Amendatory Veto Could Jeopardize Bill That Would Grant Uninsured State Residents Discounts ... Final passage of a bill that would give Illinois residents without health insurance a discount on hospital care could be jeopardized because of an amendatory veto by Gov. Rod Blagojevich D, the Chicago Tribune reports. The bill -- which would have guaranteed uninsured Illinoisans the "most generous discounts in the U.S. Valley officials discuss future of health care Nearly 200 health-care officials from across the Valley agree that the U.S. needs universal health insurance, standardized electronic medical records and a new way to structure health care costs. Wake Forest Med Students to Open Free Health Clinic WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. WGHP -- After two years of writing grants and developing business strategies, medical students at Wake Forest University are teaming up with the city's Community Care Clinic to open a free health clinic. Two federal grants will help pay for the medicine and supplies the clinic needs, and nearly 500 students have signed up to volunteer. |

