| Search 1) News For: Individual And Family Health care Family Health Center tries to reduce patient waiting time COLUMBIA - The uninsured and underinsured residents of Columbia are now receiving more timely health care with the Boone County Family Health Center's hiring of three new health care providers. The center was established in June 1992. Its mission statement states that the center exists to "provide medical services to all community members who need care with emphasis on the medically ... Health care solutions can come with own ailments Two years ago, the good people in my native Massachusetts came up with a solution to the health insurance crunch. Every adult in the commonwealth must have health insurance ��� or face legal penalties. Residents now can choose from a panoply of new, cheap policies ��� some as low as $250 a month. Fidelis offering health insurance at Vassar Brothers POUGHKEEPSIE - Fidelis Care, the New York State Catholic Health Plan serving more than 420,000 members in 41 counties across the state, has joined Vassar Brothers Medical Center to offer free or low-cost health insurance for Mid-Hudson Valley residents eligible for the state's Child Health Plus, Family Health Plus, and Medicaid programs. Lawmakers running out of time to deal with 3 key health care issues HARRISBURG -- The state Legislature will return this week for three of its final nine days of work in 2008, and conflict over a Democratic plan to expand health insurance is endangering an ... Sept. 11 Our health-care system has caused considerable disruption to my family. I am a physician, and true to the stereotype, am married to a nurse. Earlier this year we decided to change our health insurance. Our policy doubled its premium in one year to an outrageous and unacceptable level. Udall, Schaffer talk health care Senate candidates Mark Udall and Bob Schaffer agreed Saturday on the need for better access to affordable health insurance but supported different ways to reach that goal. June's cell 405-412-8427 or yeganeh.torbati@yale.edu. As the costs of medical care rise and the economy weakens, more South Florida families bear the financial burden of being For Jean Bradley-Brooks and her family, getting proper health care has gone from being a challenge to an insurmountable struggle in less than a year. But it's not because they are uninsured or unemployed. Dehen chosen as one of 100 Most Influential Health Care Leaders in state [Brainerd Lakes Health, the health care system which includes St. Joseph's Medical Center and Brainerd Medical Center, announced Dr. James Dehen, surgeon, was recently selected as one of Minnesota's 100 Most Influential Health Care Leaders by Minnesota Physician magazine. 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. Ohio Bill Would Ban Public Funding For Health Care Services To Undocumented Immigrants A bill pending in the Ohio Legislature would ban the use of tax revenue for routine medical care of undocumented immigrants, the Columbus Dispatch reports. Under the bill, health care clinics receiving public funding would be required to check the immigration status of any patient older than age 14 and decline to provide care to those who are undocumented. |

