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Health savings accounts are becoming best option
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 4.28.2006
Imagine you're heading out to the pharmacy to pick up a prescription for a nagging cough. On the way, you stop by the ATM: You punch up your account for health expenses and take out $50 — no, make that $250. You'll pass the optician's on the way home, so you might as well stop in for the new pair of glasses you ordered.
We are responsible in fat fight — not lawyers, not courts
Submitted by Diana M. Ernst on 4.20.2006
SAN FRANCISCO - While millions of us are still struggling to shed those extra holiday pounds, food activists, personal injury lawyers and bureaucrats say we don’t have to make the effort — it’s up to Congress and the courts to produce a trimmer America.
Beware of Kennedy’s side effects
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 4.18.2006
Warning: Sen. Ted Kennedy’s prescription to “fix” Medicare Part D with cheap, government-approved drugs may cause dangerous side effects, including outdated medicine, stifled research and reduced life expectancy for Medicare recipients.
Proceed with Caution
Submitted by Grace-Marie Turner on 4.13.2006
The new Massachusetts health plan has dominated the policy conversation over the past week, causing more division among conservatives than liberals.
County to look into new health plan
Submitted by Ben Brown on 4.10.2006
The Mendocino County Health Planning Council is sponsoring an educational meeting, Tuesday, on a bill currently in the state senate that would create a single-payer health care system in California.
Massachusetts "health care" prelude to government takeover?
Submitted by Bruce McQuain on 4.10.2006
Individual health insurance is not always a good deal in Massachusetts, thanks to state-imposed community rating regulations that require companies to charge the sick and healthy the same rates. The result: Some people elect not to purchase it.
Massachusetts will fail
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 4.9.2006
Massachusetts' health care plan won't lead to universal care through private insurance. It just might, however, give the Bay State government-run single-payer health care.
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