The News Review:
- The Questions
- Australia urges calm after child flu death
- Michelle bama visits health care center
- The Italian Job: What the 2009 G8 Summit Must Deliver on Health …
The Questions
FXNews
MTHER: I actually have to work for a company so that we can get coverage because my older daughter is an automatic decline and we’re just too small of a business to be able to absorb the cost. How can health care reform help us?Question 4 (from live audience): I work for a group called Health Care for America NW.
Australia urges calm after child flu death
AFP
Health Minister Nicola Roxon said the death of a three-year-old boy with A(H1N1) influenza was a “tragedy” but emphasised that the virus was mild in most cases. “I want to assure people that they should not be unduly alarmed” Roxon said. “This is a serious disease and it can be severe in some people but it is mild for most people” she added. Roxon said police and the coroner were investigating the case of the boy who was reportedly found dead by his mother in their Melbourne home last Friday morning.
Michelle bama visits health care center
Chicago Sun-Times
And I’d also like to thank Administrator Mary Wakefield who I just got to meet — administrator who was able to join me here today. Mary thank you so much for your work. As you all know we’re at a critical juncture in the debate about health care in this nation. The current system is economically unsustainable and I don’t have to tell any of you that. And despite having the most expensive health care system in the world we’re not necessarily healthier for it. As the President and Congress begin to tackle health care reform the flag is being raised on the costly effects of preventable diseases that burden our health care system. And community health centers like Upper Cardozo Unity Health Care are a vital component for this discussion.
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The Italian Job: What the 2009 G8 Summit Must Deliver on Health …
Huffington Post
As chair Italy has placed the global economy environment and Africa at the top of the agenda for two days of discussion that at different points will bring together the leaders of major middle income economies African nations and international institutions. With a further G20 summit in Pittsburgh in September and UN climate talks in Copenhagen at the end of the year the summit outcomes will be judged partly on whether they can usefully set the scene for these subsequent meetings. Yet it is on Africa and the focal issue of health where Italy in particular and the G8 collectively face their greatest credibility test. In 1995 when they met in Gleneagles the G8 heralded a major breakthrough when they announced a doubling of aid to Africa by 2010 as part of a wider package of measures designed to accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals on poverty hunger education and health. Four years on what was dubbed a ‘Marshall Plan’ for Africa in 2005 risks disintegrating into a partial plan:While non-G8 donors responsible for a quarter of the total aid increase are delivering on their side of the deal aid from the G8 countries has actually fallen. So far G8 countries have raised aid by just one third of the total they pledged in 2005. Italy the host nation continues to slash its aid spending and now gives less than a fifth of one per cent of its national income to poverty reduction.
