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Massachusetts Antismoking Plan is Huge Success

The Aintismoking plan that offers almost free teatment for poor residents of Massachusetts has already seen huge benifits in both the heath and health finance sector. Since its establishment in 2006, an attempt...

Swine flu vaccine supplier has to pay back millions

" Baxter, the US pharmaceutical giant, reached at least seven huge settlements over the past 12 months, some of them for millions of dollars. The company had been accused of fraud amid allegations that it had overpriced medicines by as much as 1,300%. " Baxter, isn't this...

WH unable to provide Source for Prescription Drugs Savings

President Obama announced a new Prescription Drug Plan yesterday that was apparently negotiated by the AARP and Drug Companies.  The plan was to save  80 Billion Dollars for seniors and make drugs...

Medicaid Expansion and Fiscal Responsibility

I have been an insurance broker in the state of Illinois for the past 15 years and I have seen first hand what happens when an over burdened, tax funded, Government controlled, entitlement program like Medicaid is offered to those with incomes well into the middle class....

Alzheimer's Hits 5.3 Million in US - Report

Some 5.3 million people in the US have Alzheimer's disease, according to the Alzheimer's Association.  The healthcare costs related to Alzheimer's patients are more than triple those of other older people,...

Tobacco Settlement Dollars at Work in Georgia

I have to admit it here... yes I smoke and wish I didn't.  I have a strong addiction to nicotine.  I believe that the Tobacco Settlement money went to the wrong place.  Instead of letting the States...

Managed Heath Care and Sleep: Unmanaged, Not Care [UPDATED]

[UPDATED Below on Oct 21]If anyone's been really, actually, paying attention, Jace several times sought a medication named "Xyrem" and was denied it by the manufacturer and an organization named NORD. (please,...

GET OUTRAGED, TAXPAYER! IMMIGRANTS GET MORE BENEFITS AT 65 THAN NATURAL BORN ...

"If the immigrant is over 65 they can apply for SSI and Medicaid and get more than (author's) mom gets for Social Security, and she worked from 1944 till 2004, only getting $791 per month because she was born in 1924 and there Is a "catch 22".   It is interesting...

US Government Takeover of it's Financial Crisis? Real or Scam?

The International Institute of Nonviolence News&Opinion By: Rev. Jermano   Note: 1000 Billion = 1 Trillion Well folks the US Government is in a heap of trouble, and one wonders whether all this takeover...

Katrina Pain Index: New Orleans Three Years Later

" Katrina hit New Orleans and the Gulf Coast three years ago this week. The president promised to do whatever it took to rebuild. But the nation is trying to fight wars in several countries and is dealing with economic crisis. The attention of the president wandered...

US Census shows rising enrollment in public health insurance

The latest figures on health insurance enrollment in the US, released today by the Census Bureau, show that the percentage of people without coverage declined last year, from 15.8% of the population to 15.3%. The reason: more people last year enrolled in public insurance...

New Jersey Medicaid Waiver Programs

New Jersey Medicaid Waiver ProgramsBy [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Anna_Komissarenko]Anna KomissarenkoIf a New Jersey resident is in need of medical assistance but unable to receive services under the state Medicaid Program then it may be beneficial to explore the many...

ACORN Files Lawsuit Against Missouri Officials

The intent of a 1993 federal law is clear: take voter registration drives to the people, especially those who use government assistance offices (welfare, food stamps) as well as driver's license offices. Now, however, ACORN, the umbrella activist group, says that Missouri...

Half New Orleans Poor Permanently Displaced: Failure or Success?

" Government reports confirm that half of the working poor, elderly and disabled who lived in New Orleans before Katrina have not returned. Because of critical shortages in low cost housing, few now expect tens of thousands of poor and working people to ever be...

President Bush Signs Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007

On December 29, 2007, President Bush signed the Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 into law, extending the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and temporarily addressing a number of Medicare program issues.

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