News For: total health CareHealth-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. German Health-Care Workers Take to Berlin Streets in Protest Sept. 25 -- German health-care workers are staging their biggest-ever protest today in Berlin, denouncing what they call inadequate funding from the government for increasingly costly medical care. 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. Kennedy Working Now for January Health Care Push Brain cancer has kept Sen. Ted Kennedy from Washington this month, but he and his staff are still hard at work on a major health care plan that he'll unveil early next year. Bi-Partisan Burgess Health Care Bills Unanimously Pass U.S. House Of Representatives Congressman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. R-TX announced that two bi-partisan bills he helped write to improve health care unanimously passed the House of Representatives last night. The bills must now pass the Senate and be signed by the President to become law. The first bill, the Health Insurance Source of Injury Clarification Act H.R. 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. 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. 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. 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. Health Care Costs Increase Strain, Studies Find As Washington debates the best way to avert an economic meltdown, increasing numbers of Americans are struggling with another financial crisis: the growing burden of unpaid medical bills. |


