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11/18/2008 News For:

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County workers get health options  Dougherty County Commissioners vote to give employees three health insurance options.

Kennedy Returns to U.S. Senate, Pushes Health-Care Legislation  Nov. 17 -- Senator Edward Kennedy , who has brain cancer, touted health-care legislation as he returned to the U.S. Senate for this week's debate on an economic stimulus plan.

Employers Offer Workers Fewer Health Care Plans  Many workers are finding that the buffet of options in their medical plans has been trimmed to a very short menu.

Open enrollment sees employers passing along higher health care costs to workers  The health insurance choices companies are submitting to employees during the open enrollment period now under way largely follow what they have done in the recent past.

Baucus To Release Detailed Universal Health Care Plan Today  Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus D-Mont. on Wednesday will release a detailed universal health coverage plan that is "broadly compatible" with the proposal by President-elect Barack Obama, the New York Times reports. Under the plan, employers of a certain size would be required to offer health insurance for workers or pay into a federal insurance fund.

Thirty-One California Leaders Support Health Care Workers Facing Attack from Service Employee International Union ...   Former California Senate Pro-Tem John Burton, UFW founder Dolores Huerta, San Francisco Supervisors President Aaron Peskin and Investment and Political Consultant Clint Reilly, head a committee of 31 top California leaders supporting United Healthcare Workers-West members fighting attacks from Andy Stern and Anna Burger, Service Employees International Union President and Secretary-Treasurer.

Moves To Improve Migration Of Health Workers  Inter-governmental organisation, the Commonwealth Foundation, in collaboration with the Commonwealth Secretariat and the Commonwealth Medical Association, stands to improve the state of Commonwealth healthcare by strengthening the local professional workforce, when it hosts the first of its regional symposiums looking at issues around the migration of health workers in New Delhi, India on 17 to ...

Health Insurance Premiums Skyrocket In Lewis County   Lewis County officials say the skyrocketing cost of health insurance premiums is partly to blame for the proposed budget, which calls for the elimination of 52 positions. Over the past few years, premiums have risen a manageable 3 percent. This coming year, the cost is expected to climb by a whopping 25 percent.

NHS medical research plan threatens patient privacy  The privacy of millions of NHS patients will be critically undermined by a government plan to let medical researchers have access to personal files, the health information watchdog told the Guardian last night.

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

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