The News Review:
- Child health bill would benefit and cost Texas
- Health Tip: Easing a Croupy Cough
- Nation briefs: House Ks expanding child health care
- Nothing to fear but no health care
- Benefit seen in passage of child health-care bill
- Take an easy shot at good health for kids
- Bill boosts health care for children
Child health bill would benefit and cost Texas
Fort Worth Star Telegram TX
At issue is a plan approved by the House and pending before the Senate to boost federal taxes on a pack of cigarettes from 39 cents to $1 to give 4 million more children health insurance. That would raise the price of a single pack of cigarettes in Texas to around $6. “As a parent who cares deeply about the health of my two young sons I can think of few things this Congress could do that would be more important than to see that millions of children receive the kind of healthcare we would want for our own children” said Rep. Chet Edwards D-Waco whose district stretches from suburbs south of Fort Worth to east of College Station. Texas which has the highest percentage of uninsured children of all the states should be poised to get the largest share of help through the enhanced State Children’s Health Care Insurance Program. At the same time Texas has countless smokers many of whom may be low-income themselves and have a hard time paying the extra 61 cents per pack.
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Health Tip: Easing a Croupy Cough
Washington Post United States
It is most commonly identified by a hoarse voice tight breathing and a low-pitched cough that sounds like a seal’s bark. The Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital offers these suggestions to help soothe your child’s croupy cough:Let your child stand in a hot shower and absorb the steam (be careful that the water is not hot enough to burn). While the child is in the shower hold a wet washcloth near your child’s face and have the child breathe in. Add warm water to a humidifier in your child’s room. To avoid pneumonia it is important that your child cough up mucus that has built up in the lungs. So the idea is to promote a "productive" cough the hospital says not prevent a cough entirely.
Nation briefs: House Ks expanding child health care
Newsday NY
Bush leaves office. bama hailed the 289-139 vote and nudged the Senate to act with the "same sense of urgency. Bush vetoed similar bills in 2007 objecting to a tax increase and expansion of government health care.
Nothing to fear but no health care
Seattle Post Intelligencer
PTNothing to fear but no health careBy AMY GDMANSYNDICATED CLUMNISTFifty million Americans are without health insurance and 25 million are “underinsured. ” Millions being laid off will soon be added to those rolls. Medical bills cause more than half of personal bankruptcies in the U. Desperate for care the under- and uninsured flock to emergency rooms often dealing with problems that could have been prevented.
Benefit seen in passage of child health-care bill
DesMoinesRegister.com IA
The money would be used to expand Hawk-I the joint state and federal insurance program for children of moderate-income families. The increase would mean about $68 million in extra money in the current fiscal year which ends Sept. 30 said Carrie Fitzgerald a senior health policy associate for the Child and Family Policy Center in Des Moines. Part of the new money would be used to loosen eligibility rules for Hawk-I. The Iowa Legislature last year voted to increase the income limit for a family of four from about $50000 to about $63000 starting in July 2009.
Take an easy shot at good health for kids
ElmLeaves IL
Not so in the rest of the world. In 2001 the Measles Initiative was started a joint venture of the Red Cross the UN Foundation the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) UNICEF and the World Health rganization (WH). According to the WH’s World Health Report in the year 2000 514000 children in Africa died of measles in Asia 258000 died. ne in 3000 who gets the disease dies. In contrast an allergic reaction to the vaccine is seen in less than 1 in 1000000 children. Statistics on other vaccines also show that the benefits far outweigh the risks. Millions of lives have been saved by the vaccines given to prevent polio measles chicken pox rubella diptheria pertussis and other diseases.
Bill boosts health care for children
Anchorage Daily News AK
htmlFont size : A | A | A The expansion of the State Child Health Insurance Program (CHIP) known in Alaska as Denali KidCare could provide new health care coverage to more than 4 million uninsured kids nationwide roughly half of all uninsured American children. Almost half of the estimated 19000 uninsured children in Alaska could be covered by the legislation too according to an analysis by Families USA a national nonprofit organization that advocates for high-quality affordable health care for all Americans. But that assumes that Alaska legislators in Juneau would be willing to provide the 35 percent matching funds for a program that would expand Denali KidCare coverage to families that earn up to 300 percent of the federal poverty level. Currently Alaska only provides coverage to families that earn up to 175 percent of the poverty threshold. Created in 1997 CHIP provides health coverage to children in working families with incomes that are too high to qualify for Medicaid but too low to make private insurance affordable.
