The News Review:
- Is the health insurance industry serious about reform?
- Iowa to seek expansion of children’s health care
- Auto Workers: Rescue Them or Not?
- Scholarship Addresses Shortage of Child Mental Health Providers
- Health Watch: Keep allergies from ruining child’s fun
- Choice And Security
- Hundreds attend Syosset school district’s health fair
Is the health insurance industry serious about reform?
Los Angeles Times
In December the health insurance industry’s trade group AHIP (for America’s Health Insurance Plans) said it had decided for the first time to support the principle of universal healthcare — insuring everyone in America regardless of health condition. And what I found by reading AHIP’s. americanhealthsolution.
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Iowa to seek expansion of children’s health care
Forbes
The Senate will take up a plan to boost health care spending by $10 million to cover 30000 more children from low-income families. That would mean the vast majority of Iowa children would have health coverage. com%2Ffeeds%2Fap%2F2009%2F03%2F09%2Fap6142463.
Auto Workers: Rescue Them or Not?
New York Times
In its struggle to stay afloat. But any resolution may depend on the bama administration as it figures out how to keep G.
Scholarship Addresses Shortage of Child Mental Health Providers
Media Newswire (press release)
According to the National Institutes of Mental Health one in 10 children in the United States suffers from a mental disorder severe enough to cause some level of impairment. Yet in New York state almost 50 percent of counties do not have a practicing child psychiatric provider. The situation is particularly dire in rural and underserved communities where there is limited access to child psychiatric providers and mental health services. ften people in these areas rely on their primary care providers to assess and manage child mental health problems. Unfortunately many primary care providers feel ill equipped to manage these problems especially the more complex psychiatric disorders that can emerge in childhood.
Health Watch: Keep allergies from ruining child’s fun
Utica bserver Dispatch
The guide created through a partnership between Playgroups USA and The Clorox Company provides information on common allergens statistics on allergies among children and tips for minimizing allergy triggers. — ARA Study: Republicans report better health than DemocratsA new study from the Harvard School of Public Health finds that individuals who identify themselves as Republicans report lower rates of poor health than those who identify as Democrats. After controlling for demographic and socioeconomic factors the study found that Republicans were 26 percent less likely to report poor health than Democrats. Republicans were also 15 percent less likely to be smokers compared with Democrats. The authors note that Republicans may exhibit greater religiosity than Democrats which could lead to greater health-promoting conditions such as stronger social ties and networks. The researchers conclude that further research is required to determine whether a person’s political ideology is an independent risk factor or a marker of something else.
Choice And Security
Forbes
” And so most reform proposals promise to further restrict competition between medical insurers by for example mandating that all insurance plans charge the same rates to all subscribers. This approach called community rating has an intuitive appeal. Why should a family be punished because it has a child with leukemia? Why should a small business face punishing health care costs because one of its employees suffers from diabetes? It is easy to see why businesses large and small are increasingly agitating for a health care reform that will ease these burdens. bama’s call for a National Health Insurance Exchange is rooted in these concerns. By gathering everyone up in ever-larger pools you preserve the web of cross-subsidies and insulate the unhealthy and the unfortunate. Comment n This StoryAs Professor Cochrane argues however this “forced-pooling” has a serious downside. As in any industry reduced competition leads to higher costs lower-quality service and less innovation.
Hundreds attend Syosset school district’s health fair
Newsday
“To see the visual it really opens up your mind to it. Children munched on whole wheat pizza bounced on exercise equipment and found out just how much sugar is in a cup of vanilla ice cream (six teaspoons) at some of the booths set up throughout the school. “I learned that there are so many things you have to make sure of to be healthy” said Brett Levine 12 of Syosset. “I feel like I’m doing a good job.
