Affordable Health Care

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• CVS wants sick patients to keep taking medicine
  Sep 10, 2010 — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  Brennan calls it "patient irrationality," and he said it costs billions of dollars each year in medical care that might be otherwise avoided. Nearly 35 percent of patients with coronary artery disease do not adhere to their medication regimen, he said. Maintenance Choice has shown a 10 percent improvement in adherence, Dr.
• Patient Money: A Broker Can Help Unscramble Individual Policies
  Sep 10, 2010 — New York Times
  Farre was able to find affordable plans for himself and his wife, Viviane Bauquet Farre, 46, a private chef and food writer. Farre and his wife find new policies that met their health and financial needs.“I thought insurance brokers were a relic of the past,” Mr. Kapson’s current broker, Bob Rothstein, had sold the family their homeowners’ policy. “I did not realize he also sold health insurance,” Mr.
• Malpractice costs top $55 billion a year in U.S., Harvard study says
  Sep 9, 2010 — Chicago Tribune
  Steven Malkin, president of the Illinois State Medical Society. "ISMS remains committed to restoring balance in our courtrooms and will continue to support meaningful medical liability protections in Illinois and at the national level. Our health care is at stake." State lawmakers in 2005 passed legislation, which was signed into law by then-Gov.
• Albuquerque Journal, N.M., Winthrop Quigley column
  Sep 6, 2010 — Albuquerque Journal
  Greater supply of medical providers usually leads to greater consumption of care and higher costs. Health Savings Accounts, for example, are supposed to encourage patients to be smarter consumers by making them pay for more of their care out of pocket in return for tax-advantaged savings. Those data don't always reflect the quality of care that is delivered.
• Fund aims to help ex-K9s
  Sep 6, 2010 — The Blade
  The sole responsibility falls onto the adoptive family," Trooper Arnold said. To help other retired law-enforcement dogs and their adoptive owners, Trooper Arnold and Ms. He said he needed to learn about K9 handlers and their dogs to use their work in court against criminals. Mr.
• Cost of health insurance goes up 3%
  Sep 3, 2010 — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
  Since then, health insurance premiums have increased 138% compared with a 31% increase in consumer prices. The cost of single coverage rose 5% to $5,049 this year. And some employers are seeing the results. Wagner Cos., a Milwaukee maker of handrails and components, said its health insurance premiums decreased this year.
• Health insurance is taking a bigger bite from workers' wallets
  Sep 3, 2010 — The Kansas City Star
  Total single coverage cost $5,049, up 5 percent. Since 2005, workers' contributions to premiums have jumped 47 percent -- about $1,300 -- while overall premiums rose 27 percent.
• Firing up the campaign trail for U.S. Senate
  Aug 29, 2010 — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
  Russ Feingold (D-Wis.). And Johnson says his stated goal is to stop the "Obama agenda." It was Feingold's life ambition to get elected to office, Johnson says. If he defeats his two primary opponents -- David Westlake and Stephen Finn -- and then defeats Feingold Nov. 2, he says he will work to repeal the bill as soon as possible. Later, he said, he started Pacur, an Oshkosh plastics company, with his brother-in-law.
• Health-care reform will help young adults get coverage
  Aug 29, 2010 — Richmond Times-Dispatch
  Playing music is his job -- even if it doesn't pay much. Like many people his age, Dixon has no health insurance. Health insurance isn't on his list of priorities with $500 monthly rent, a phone bill, groceries and band costs. Routhier said he believes that everyone has a right to health care but not health insurance.