| Search 1) News For: Nj Kids Health Care 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. Corzine urges U.S. to create universal health care system WASHINGTON -- Gov. Jon S. Corzine urged the federal government Thursday to create a system in which all Americans have health insurance, equating universal health care to a moral responsibility for lawmakers. Corzine asks Congress for universal health care New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine urged the federal government Thursday to create a system in which all Americans have health insurance, equating universal health care to a moral responsibility for lawmakers. Early funds appropriation sought for vets' health care As the veterans' health system strains to handle a growing caseload, a move is under way in Congress to avoid yearly delays in financing that can hamper the medical care of the nation's veterans. AMA Launches New Health Care Ad Blitz The American Medical Association unveiled new print and television ads Thursday, promoting health-care coverage��for the country���s 46 million uninsured. In a press conference at the Capitol, AMA president Nancy Nielsen thanked Sens. Ron Wyden D-Ore. and Bob Bennett R-Utah and Rep. Michael Burgess R-Texas for tackling the issue in a bi-partisan fashion. The two new AMA television ads are ... Bi-Partisan Burgess Health Care Bills Headed To House Floor, USA Congressman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. R-TX announced that two bi-partisan bills he helped write to improve health care passed out of committee and now head to the House floor. Votes are expected by the full House of Representatives in the next few weeks. The first bill, the Physician Workforce and Graduate Medical Education Enhancement Act H.R. 'Medical home' concept would bring new kind of health care A coalition of insurers, health care providers and employers are designing a pilot program to launch the "medical home" concept in doctors' offices around the state. Health Care For Kids It's tough to imagine--kids in health insurance programs not getting to see a doctor because it's not in the doctor's financial interest to do so. Candidates and health care John McCain and Barack Obama both want to give Americans greater access to quality health care. The two presidential candidates, however, have very different philosophies on how to do it.McCain focuses on making health insurance more affordable as a way to increase the number of people who could get it; he does this by taking a market-based approach to health care, promoting competition among ... VUMC signs on as Predators health care provider Vanderbilt University Medical Center has signed an agreement to be the new health care and emergency medical services provider for the Nashville Predators. |

