The News Review:
- Few individual health policies cover maternity
- China county accused of child virus cover-up
- Growers Establish Foundation To Help Farmworkers With Child Care …
- Your health is not negotiable
- Profiles of metro people lacking health coverage
- Health Agenda
- Monroe County could ban smoking in cars with kids
Few individual health policies cover maternity
San Francisco Chronicle
tmpl –>The number of individual health insurance policies that do not include maternity coverage has risen dramatically in recent years prompting concern among consumers and a legislative effort to require California insurers to include the benefit. tmpl –> Video.
China county accused of child virus cover-up
Reuters
There were possibly more than 2000 children who had been infected by the disease contradicting the official number of 277 since January the report added citing two doctors in Minquan People’s Hospital. Several officials had been punished for "failing to act" to contain the disease the official Xinhua news agency said. Calls to the Henan Health Bureau and Minquan local government went unanswered. Xinhua said two toddlers died from hand foot and mouth disease in neighbouring Shandong province. There were more than 502 cases in the city a "high increase" from the same period last year it said. Earlier this year a 17-month-old boy died of the disease in Lixin county in neighbouring Anhui province. More than 40 Chinese children died in the spring of 2008 and thousands were infected when the illness was linked with enterovirus 71 which can cause a severe form of the disease characterised by high fever paralysis and meningitis.
Growers Establish Foundation To Help Farmworkers With Child Care …
PR Newswire (press release)
In addition to Hester an rlando attorney other members of the foundation’s board of directors are Bob Spencer vice president of sales and marketing for Palmetto Fla. -based West Coast Tomato; Wes Wheeler a Winter Haven attorney; and Reggie Brown executive vice president of the Florida Tomato Growers Exchange. About FCSFBased in Maitland Fla. the FCSF is a non-profit organization that provides child care health care and educational opportunities to farmworkers and their families living in Florida. About CHSCollier Health Services (CHS) is a private not-for-profit “safety net” health-care provider with 12 health and dental care facilities located throughout Collier County including the Ronald McDonald Care Mobile. It offers basic primary and preventive medical and dental health care services. It provides services to approximately 45000 patients (around 29000 of whom are children) which comes to about 186000 patient visits every year.
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Your health is not negotiable
Daily Sundial
We consider these institutions important enough to society as a whole to “socialize” them. We all pay taxes to provide these services to everyone regardless of income or class status. Should a firefighter ask for a fire insurance card when someone’s house is on fire? Should the local librarian kick a poor child out of the library because they don’t have library insurance? As ridiculous as these things sound it’s even more ridiculous to kick a less fortunate child out of a doctor’s office for not having health insurance. According to the World Health rganization’s exhaustive survey from 2000 France is ranked No. 1 for providing the best overall care. ther western and northern European social democracies like Norway the Netherlands and the United Kingdom follow closely behind in the rankings as would be expected. What’s abominable is that poor countries like Chile and Costa Rica rank above us.
Profiles of metro people lacking health coverage
Detroit Free Press
Michelle Pettypool 40 is a single mother from Warren with two children who lost her job and benefits at a Chrysler dealership last year. She does not have CBRA temporary health insurance available to unemployed people because she considered the coverage unaffordable. Now she hopes to find enough money in her $1200 a month unemployment check to pay 35% of CBRA; the government would pay the rest. She’s cut back on family expenses needs a root canal and has gone without medicine for acid reflux and migraine headaches. • Self-employed no insurance. Kela Cobb 30 of Inkster is a home child care provider who has been uninsured nearly six years.
Health Agenda
Emporia Gazette
April 18 in the Continuing Education classroom. Those who want to take the class may register in person at the Marketing and Education Department on the second floor. For more information call 343-6800 ext.
Monroe County could ban smoking in cars with kids
Chicago Tribune
- The Monroe County Board of Health isconsidering a proposal to prohibit smoking in vehicles carryingchildren. The board will hold a public forum Thursday in Bloomington andcounty commissioners will consider the proposal on Friday. County health department administrator Penny Caudill said theboard of health has been considering proposing the change to thecounty’s smoking ordinance for some time and held a forum on theissue in December 2007. The proposed ban would carry a fine of $100 for a person caughtsmoking in a vehicle carrying a child age 13 or younger. Policewould not be able to stop a car just to enforce the ordinance.
