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QF’s Sidra a shot in the arm for regional health care system  By Bonnie James QATAR Foundation’s upcoming $7.9bn Sidra Medical and Research Center, described as the Middle East’s first North American style facility of its kind, will offer scholarships to promote careers in health care.

Health-care costs to rise in '09  Get ready to add ''health care'' to the list of things that probably will cost you more next year. A national survey released Wednesday reveals that 40 percent of companies say they're ''very likely'' or ''somewhat likely'' to increase the amount employees pay for their health insurance in 2009.

Farm, Ranch Families Struggle With Rising Health Care Costs  WASHINGTON — America’s farm and ranch families are paying top dollar for health insurance that inadequately covers their needs and causes them significant financial risk, according to a report released today from The Access Project and sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Protesters target health care  Providers of medical insurance are more concerned about dollars than people, claims a coalition of labor and other organizations that wants the federal government to take a bigger role in health care financing.

Ex-surgeon general: Attitude change needed for health care  The United States has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, cutting edge technology and medical research, but the country must undergo an “attitudinal change” if it wants to deliver quality, preventive health care to its residents, former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Joycelyn Elders said Wednesday.

Health-Care Costs for U.S. Employers Rise 5 Percent, Study Says  Sept. 24 -- Employer-sponsored health insurance for a family cost an average of $12,680 this year, a 5 percent increase from 2007, a survey of U.S. businesses found.

Workers pay more for less health care coverage  WASHINGTON – Premiums for job-based health insurance are up 5 percent in 2008 and have more than doubled since 1999, a growth rate that far outpaces inflation and the increase in workers' wages over the same period, according to an annual survey of employers.

Universal Health Care Supporters Rally  ELMIRA -- Advocates for universal health care are asking New York lawmakers in Washington, "Whose side are you on?" The group Citizen Action of New York held a rally in front of the Excellus Blue Cross-Blue Shield office in Elmira Wednesday.

AMA president urges broadened health care  WASHINGTON -- The Buffalo physician who heads the American Medical Association came to the capital Tuesday to reignite the debate on universal health care at a time of great sickness in the American economy.

Study notes health care disparities in Minnesota  Minnesota medical groups are providing better quality care to patients with private health insurance than those covered through public programs, according to a report released Wednesday.

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