The News Review:
- Health care costs to top $8000 per person
- Report: Health of Waukesha County residents slips
- Pancake Day event to benefit child health care
- State to closely monitor daycare where toddler died
- Child Development Center staff students thank congressman for …
Health care costs to top $8000 per person
The Associated Press -
“It is bringing home more immediately the problematic dimensions of what we face” added Palmer who has served as a trustee overseeing Social Security and Medicare finances. “The picture was bad enough ten years from now but the fact that everything is accelerating gives greater impetus to be concerned about health reform. “The report found health care costs will average $8160 this year for every man woman and child an increase of $356 per person from last year. Meanwhile the number of uninsured has risen to about 48 million according to a new estimate by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The government statisticians estimated that health costs will reach $13100 per person in 2018 accounting for $1 out of every $5 spent in the economy. Policy makers would like to slow the rate of increase in spending but that has proven difficult because American-style medicine care relies on intensive use of costly high-tech tests and procedures. In a separate report also due out Tuesday private researchers looked at spending on medical conditions and found that the most costly were mental disorders — including Alzheimer’s — and heart problems.
Report: Health of Waukesha County residents slips
Bizjournals.com NC -
us Digg This Waukesha County residents scored a C+ on the 2009 Health Report Card released this week by the. The report card is based on six categories: maternal child and infant health; communicable diseases; cancer rate; heart disease and stroke; injury violence and substance abuse; and the use of preventative services. verall health of the county improved in two categories decreased in two categories and remained the same in two categories compared with the previous Health Report Card which was released in 2005. The grade for cancer went from a C+ to a C while heart disease and stroke saw major improvement going from a D+ to B-. The overall grade decreased slightly from a B- in the previous report card in 2005.
Pancake Day event to benefit child health care
Topeka Capital Journal KS -
Francis Health Center. The goal is to raise $1 million to benefit children’s hospitals and other charities throughout the United States. Last year IHP served 1. 5 million free pancakes — which would create a stack more than 12 miles high — on National Pancake Day 2008 and pancake lovers donated more than $875000 to children’s charities.
State to closely monitor daycare where toddler died
Arizona Republic AZ -
The elevated watch comes while the owners of Colorful Kids Preschool in west Chandler try to sell the facility to a new operator. The state health department revoked the preschool’s license earlier this month after two inspections found multiple safety violations. The child was Selenia Moreno who was found dead Nov. 5 in the school after children had been napping in the 2-year-olds’ room. Selenia never awoke from her nap and workers found her skin discolored and her body limp according to a Chandler police report. The child was last seen alive by long-time employee Candelaria “Candy” Bradford.
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Child Development Center staff students thank congressman for …
Chillicothe Gazette H -
SCHIP a partnership between the federal government and the states is designed to provide health insurance coverage for low-income children who are not eligible for Medicaid. Currently more than 140000 hio children depend on the program for healthcare services. The new bill signed into law by President Barack bama earlier this month allows states to use federal funds to provide healthcare coverage to children and pregnant women who are in the country legally amending current law that mostly bars legal immigrants from receiving State Children’s Health Insurance Program coverage until they have been in the United States for five years. This will allow expanded coverage to more than four million uninsured children by 2013 in addition to the seven million children already enrolled.
