News For: Www AARP health care Com Personal healthAARP holds health care seminar Several groups in the medical field met in Syracuse Tuesday for a health care seminar sponsored by AARP. The seminar featured a forum discussion with doctors and nurses on how to ensure affordable health care for all Americans. 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. 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. 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. 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. Aetna Makes Health Care Cost Information Available to More Members with the Expansion of Aetna's Industry-Leading ... Americans are taking on more financial responsibility for their health care and, as a result, need access to a robust suite of tools and information in order to make informed decisions. To support and encourage members to be informed health care consumers, Aetna NYSE:AET today announced the expansion of its health care transparency initiatives to additional markets including Connecticut; ... 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. 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. Health care costs take bigger bite from paychecks Many workers get less from plans 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. |

