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Health experts say insurance the wrong focus (Denver Post via Yahoo! News)
With national heath-care reform high on the list of priorities for Democrats this election year, several leading health experts suggested Monday that insurance should not be the No. 1 priority.

Health Highlights: Aug. 25, 2008 (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay:

Fulton’s reopens after shut down by health inspectors (Chicago Sun-Times)
A popular Loop restaurant re-opened its doors Monday night after being shut down because city health inspectors found fruit flies in the kitchen and storage areas.

Uninsured Get Less Health Care Than Insured (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
MONDAY, Aug. 25 (HealthDay News) — Uninsured Americans will spend $30 billion out of pocket for health care, and receive $56 billion in uncompensated care in 2008, new research shows.

Health care stocks performing well (San Francisco Chronicle)
Health care stocks, which have been plagued by a variety of ailments in recent years, are emerging as one of the stock market’s few bright spots. Over the past three months, health care companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 are up 4.4 percent on average,…

Uninsured pay $30 billion for health care (CNN Money)
Americans without health insurance will spend $30 billion out of pocket on medical care this year, according to a new report by George Mason University and the Urban Institute.

Uninsured pay $30 billion for health care: study (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Americans who go without health insurance for any part of 2008 will spend $30 billion out of pocket for health care and they will get $56 billion worth of free care, according to a report released on Monday.

Health board candidate challenges foes (The Arizona Republic)
A candidate for the governing board of Maricopa Integrated Health System, which runs the county hospital, is trying to get her opponents disqualified from the November ballot, although it is unclear if she can legally hold the position herself.

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August 24, 2008

RisingHealthCare Costs: Sign of Wealth, Not Cause for Worry?

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RisingHealthCare Costs: Sign of Wealth, Not Cause for Worry?

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Look to Europe for health care model: CMA head (CTV.ca)

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Look to Europe for health care model: CMA head (CTV.ca)
The new president of the Canadian Medical Association says Canada needs to look to European countries that have restored their health-care systems by including private clinics and changing funding formulas.

Bupa in rude health: Bowden (The Australian)
FOR the past two months Richard Bowden, soon to be boss of health fund Bupa Australia, has been consumed with the smooth integration of MBF after a $2.41 billion takeover.

Afghan Health Ministry inks agreements with NGOs to improve service (People’s Daily)
Afghanistan Public Health Ministry, in a new move to improve health service for the war-torn nation, inked a series of agreements with a dozen non-governmental organizations (NGOs) on Sunday. "Signing these contracts proves the reality that the Ministry for Public Health prioritizes the quality and quantity of health services, especially in the rural areas of the country," Afghan acting minister …

Two Doctors, Nurse Charged With Health Care Fraud (FOX 2 News St. Louis)
Two St. Louis-area doctors and a nurse are indicted on multiple charges of conspiracy to commit health care fraud. They are accused of working together to defraud Medicare and Medicaid.

Monthly health and wellness magazine celebrates vitality (North Lake Tahoe Bonanza)
Spry, a new monthly health and wellness magazine dedicated to celebrating the vitality in all of us, will debut Sunday, Sept. 7 in the North Lake Tahoe Bonanza as an insert in the newspaper.

Health Highlights: Aug. 24, 2008 (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay:

Private health reforms ‘chaotic’ (The Australian)
THE ACT Government has broken ranks with its state peers to criticise the commonwealth’s "ad hoc reforms" to private health insurance.

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Health Highlights: Aug. 23, 2008 (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)

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Health Highlights: Aug. 23, 2008 (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay:

Presidential candidates’ health care plans (Dayton Daily News)
Key points: Candidates’ health care plans

‘Our health care system … is extremely messed up’ (Dayton Daily News)
KETTERING Hers is a typical story in America these days: a working mom with no health insurance who makes too much to qualify for government assistance but not enough to afford a health plan.

Can either candidate’s plan fix health care woes? (Dayton Daily News)
DAYTON Neither plan proposed by Barack Obama or John McCain will fix this nation’s health care system woes, local doctors say.

Row over health budget cut claim (BBC News)
A row breaks out between ministers and Labour, after the party claims health boards could lose 85m due to inflation.

Residents of Sun Valley Using Walking Program to Improve Health (FOX 11 News Los Angeles)
For the past year and a half, hundreds of people in the largely Latino community of Sun Valley have been the subject of a UCLA medical program. As part of the program, the residents are out walking in their neighborhoods to improve their health. And the program has become so popular that it has surprised the doctor who started it. Jeff Michael has the story in this video report.

New Huntley health center a ‘Godsend’ (Daily Herald)
Madonna Frankel, 45, Lake in the Hills, woke up Monday, Monday, Aug. 18 with a terrible earache and dizziness. As she drove her son to football practice, she noticed the sign proclaiming that Immediate Care at the Centegra Health Campus-Huntley was opening.

Public Health officials link Listeria outbreak to Maple Leaf products;PMO (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
OTTAWA - Public health officials have apparently linked a deadly nationwide bacterial outbreak to recalled meat products from Maple Leaf Foods.

Small business owner wary of presidential candidates’ health care solutions (Dayton Daily News)
KETTERING Small businesses feel health care costs in a big way.

Does Prevention Really Lower Health Care Costs? (Newsweek)
Cancer screening and other measures for heading off disease don’t always reduce health-care costs.

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