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- Australia urges calm after child flu death
- The Wrong Rx
- Budget fight may affect health-service providers
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.
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The Wrong Rx
kypost.com
Mitch McConnell (Getty Images)By Sen. Mitch McConnellLike millions of Americans I recognize the need for health care reform. Many Kentuckians I talk to are rightly worried about rising healthcare costs and far too many go without coverage at all. We can all agree that Congress should enact meaningful reform to address these problems. The question is: what kind of reform? Taking the wrong course would leave millions of Americans worse off by taking away the coverage they already have and like. America has watched nervously in recent months as the federal government has nearly taken over the banking industry major insurance companies and now the auto industry.
Budget fight may affect health-service providers
Philadelphia Inquirer
so cash flow is a problem. "The most affected provide services to the medical assistance population including hospitals nursing homes and doctors who help an estimated two million people who cannot afford to pay on their own. In addition organizations that provide mental health services and assistance for the mentally impaired along with counties that provide child welfare services also were notified that the state may have to issue them IUs until the budget is resolved. Services won’t be forced to shut down immediately. Some operations have reserves others can tap lines of credit. A notice advising providers that "some payments may be delayed" has gone out in each of the last seven years because the legislature and the governor have failed to reach agreement before July 1 the beginning of the new fiscal year. But the level of concern is heightened this year some advocates say because the governor and the Republican-led Senate are so far apart on how to solve the budget crisis.
