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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 ...

Audience Votes Health Coverage Should Be Government's Responsibility in First Intelligence Squared U.S. Debate of the ...   Intelligence Squared U.S., the Oxford style debate series sponsored by The Rosenkranz Foundation, announced the results of the first debate of its Fall 2008 season on the motion, "Universal health coverage should be the federal government's responsibility." A sold out audience at Rockefeller University's Caspary Auditorium, New York City voted 58% for the motion and 34% against at the ...

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.

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.

Health insurance co-pays imposed  WORCESTER - As part of City Manager Michael V. O'Brien's ongoing effort to reduce the city's health insurance costs, he is implementing some co-payment changes for those municipal employees who are members of Local 495, National Association of Government Employees.

Health Highlights: Sept. 17, 2008   Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay:

Medical journal slams Ottawa over public health safeguards  As the death toll rose Tuesday from the national listeriosis outbreak, an editorial in the Canadian Medical Association Journal slammed the federal government for undermining public health safeguards.

Patient-Reported Health Scores May Predict Head, Neck Cancer Outcomes   WEDNESDAY, Sept. 17 HealthDay News -- Self-reported physical health changes in the year after head and neck cancer patients are diagnosed may help predict their five-year survival, says a U.S. study.

Reports criticize Obama, McCain health plans   Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's health care plan would cost too much and create more regulation, while Republican John McCain's plan would leave 60 million Americans without health insurance and reduce coverage, experts said on Tuesday.

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.

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