The News Review:
- Bellow Moseley: Maximize health insurance for kids
- Gupta Withdraws Name From Consideration for Surgeon General
- Ill. panel seeks advice preventing youth suicide
- Program seeks to improve dental education care
- President bama Hosts Health Reform Summit
- Self-reliance is no health-care solution
Bellow Moseley: Maximize health insurance for kids
Houston Chronicle
At 22 percent Texas leads the nation in the rate of uninsured children. 5 million children with no health care coverage. They are predominantly the children of the working poor. Compare Texas’ rate with that of Western Europe Japan and Canada at zero percent and you’ll see that we have a huge problem on our hands. Although more than half of our state’s uninsured children are currently eligible for Medicaid or Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) they are not enrolled. We cannot let the system continue failing our children.
Gupta Withdraws Name From Consideration for Surgeon General
FXNews
“He is a practicing neurosurgeon. He also wants to spend more time with his family — his wife is expecting another child right now and of course he does want to continue as our chief medical correspondent here at CNN” Blitzer said. The head of the group that represents the surgeon general’s health team earlier told FXNews. com that Gupta was known to have withdrawn his name. Jerry Farrell who heads the Commissioned fficers Association said hopeful candidates have been calling his organization’s office since last week expressing their interest in the post after word got out that “the bidding process was open again. ” Farrell’s group represents the Commissioned Corps of the U.
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Ill. panel seeks advice preventing youth suicide
The Associated Press
Family members blamed bullying in at least two of those deaths. Bullying also may have been a factor in two of the recent suicide cases in Illinois Moore said. She did not elaborate but Moore said bullying can cause chronic stress that can lead to mental health disorders and suicide. “So it’s actually a very serious issue” she said. The vast majority of young people who commit suicide also have psychiatric disorders Moore said so it’s possible the three Illinois children who killed themselves could have had conditions that were undiagnosed. There needs to be more public awareness of mental health and emotional issues and suicide prevention experts said. “We have to educate and empower our youth and break down the stigma surrounding mental illnesses and suicide in order to save lives” said Carol Wozniewski executive director of Mental Health America of Illinois.
Program seeks to improve dental education care
San Jose Mercury News
American Dental Association President John Findley joined officials from the U Health Sciences Center on Friday to announce the creation of the Community Dental Health Coordinator program. The five-year program will study the use of a new type of health professional called a community dental health coordinator. The coordinator would work in parts of the country that don’t have easy or regular access to routine dental care. “We have a huge problem in this country and that is access to care” Findley said. “We in dentistry believe that we have some good answers.
President bama Hosts Health Reform Summit
U.S. News & World Report
Judging by the cast of thousands that attended President bama’s health reform summit today the same might be said of nurturing national health reform (though now Secretary of State Clinton was conspicuously absent from this event as she has been in general on healthcare reform since joining team bama). The purpose of the event was ostensibly to bring various stakeholders together to discuss ideas about how to reduce healthcare spending and improve health insurance coverage. And indeed representatives of many interest groups were present from insurers to private companies to patient advocacy groups as well as dozens of elected officials. (Even the single-payer advocates got an invite to the summit albeit a tardy one I’m told.
Self-reliance is no health-care solution
Daily Breeze
Relief based on “just get it over with already” tends to be short-lived. Now comes the great unknown — two parents in their late 40s scratching around for employment competing against thousands and thousands of other terrific catches without enough fishermen to catch them. At least CBRA allows them to extend their group health insurance policy for a while. Such a deal — at $1000 per month. ne parent has diabetes; one child has asthma. Where they obtain health insurance down the road and for how much remains to be seen. That’s why letters like the one I received from Bonnie Advertisement yld_mgr.
