As the health care debate raged onwards in 2009, the number of uninsured American adults rose by 3 million from 2008. Overall, approximately 46.3 million people in this country do not have health insurance covered. In Texas, over one out of every four people was uninsured in 2009, compared to the 15.4 percent...
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This past Friday July 16 at a press conference in Miami Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius announced that over 360 federal agents had raided the homes and offices of Medicare fraudsters accused of stealing over $251 million. Authorities say most of the thirty-six individuals arrested Friday...
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On May 13, 2009 the trustees of Medicare and Social Security released a report detailing the impending insolvency of our nation’s two biggest entitlement programs: Medicare in 2017 and Social Security in 2037. Projections have pushed these bankruptcy dates up from the previous report’s estimates of 2019 for Medicare and 2041 for Social Security....
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By 2014, each and every American will have an electronic medical record of their own. Electronic medical records (EMR) are “paperless paperwork,” or computerized copies of patient records, and the federal government hopes to make wide use of them to cut down health costs. The Obama administration’s health information technology program plans on...
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President Barack Obama announced on Monday that he plans on closing the gap in prescription drug coverage for senior citizens.
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According to a Wall Street Journal article, doctors are pushing for more scans in stroke cases because certain types of stroke can become worse even after treatment. The first few hours after a stroke are the most crucial because the clot-dissolving drug given to stroke patients may increase bleeding in the brain for certain...
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Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius was introduced yesterday by President Barack Obama as his nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services. As a Democrat in a Republican-dominated state, Sebelius has been frustrated in her attempts to expand health care coverage in Kansas. She has tried twice to raise Kansas’s cigarette tax to expand medical...
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