Seniors in Poor Health May Pay More in Medicare Advantage Plans
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Seniors in Poor Health May Pay More in Medicare Advantage Plans
What is Medicare achieving with billions paid to Advantage plans
May 19,2006 - Beneficiaries in poor health can pay more out of pocket for care in Medicare Advantage (MA) managed care plans than in traditional Medicare with Medigap supplemental coverage, a new Commonwealth Fund report finds. The report says beneficiaries in poor health can spend up t…
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Budget cuts draw bleak predictions, calls for veto
Local aid, healthcare, social programs hit hard
Governor Deval Patrick has 10 days to sign, veto, or offer modifications to the $27.4 billion budget proposal. Governor Deval Patrick has 10 days to sign, veto, or offer modifications to the $27.4 billion budget proposal.
Schools will close, municipal employees will be laid off, and waits for a new driver’s license will grow under a $27.4 billion state budget approved yesterday by House and Sena…
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Veterans Affairs wrestles with growing number of claims
By Richard Danielson, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Saturday, June 20, 2009
The Department of Veterans Affairs is closing in on a dubious distinction: Soon it will have 1 million claims from veterans waiting for someone — anyone — to act on their applications for benefits.
That might not surprise the 330,000 veterans in the Tampa Bay area. As the home office for Florida's 1.8 million veterans, the VA's benefits office at Bay Pines in St…
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The Genzyme Corp. plant in Allston will remain closed through July while it is decontaminated. (Jonathan Wiggs/ Globe Staff) By Erin Ailworth and Robert Weisman Globe Staff / June 17, 2009 In an unprecedented move for Genzyme Corp., the state’s largest biotechnology company has halted production of two drugs for rare genetic disorders after a virus was discovered in production equipment at its Allston plant.
The drugs are used by 8,000 people worldwide and cost about $200,000 per patient annual…
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Outrage
Our soldiers go to protect our country and they come back and get mistreated by our country and get medical treatment unstairalated and get things like hiv and other things. THIS AS GOT TO STOP! Why does are government not protect All our citizens? we can not sue for malpractice yet we have these things happen!
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H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu)
H1N1 Flu
* General Info
o H1N1 Flu & You
o What to Do If You Get Symptoms
o Antiviral Drugs
o Taking Care of a Sick Person
o Facemasks & Respirators
o PSAs
o Background on Swine Flu
* Info for Specific Groups
o Parents and Caregivers
o Pregnant Women
o Child Care Programs, Schools, Colleges and Universities
o Travelers and Travel Industry
o Clinicians
o Laboratorians
o Adults with HIV Infection
o Businesses and Employers
o Deaf and Hard of Hearing
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Obama Offers More Health-Care Savings Through Limits on Payments
THE WASHINGTONPOST
Posted at 6:00 AM ET, 06/13/2009
Obama Offers More Health-Care Savings Through Limits on Payments
By Scott Wilson and Lori A. Montgomery
President Obama proposed today to rein in spending on federal health programs for the elderly and the poor by an additional $313 billion over the next decade, bringing his total proposed savings to nearly $950 billion -- enough to cover the full cost of sweeping health refo…
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WHO declares swine flu pandemic
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a global flu pandemic after holding an emergency meeting.
It means the swine flu virus is spreading in at least two regions of the world with rising cases being seen in the UK, Australia, Japan and Chile.
WHO chief Dr Margaret Chan said the move does not mean the virus is causing more severe illness or more deaths.
The swine flu (H1N1) virus first emerged in Mexico in April and has since spread to 74 countries…
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Novel influenza h1n1 (swine flu) update June 9.
Novel influenza h1n1 (swine flu) update June 9.
June 9
WHO - situation update 45 as at June 8. Three updates a week have become the WHO norm~graham
My roundup of the current situation after the jump.
Reports of cases doubling and tripling in less than a week in countries around the world, continue. Total confirmed infections increase towards 26,000 with over 140 deaths.
The impact is being felt with travellers from the USA being quarantined…
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Swine flu total 'may be double'
Page last updated at 14:09 GMT, Sunday, 7 June 2009 15:09 UK
BBC NEWS
The number of swine flu cases in the UK is probably double the official figure, a leading bacteriologist has said.
The official total stands at well above 500 after more cases were confirmed on Saturday, but Prof Hugh Pennington told BBC 5 Live the real figure is higher.
"I think it would be very reasonable to say we've got at least twice as many cases as we know about," he said.
Meanwhil…
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Redemption from scandal? Ill. ethics reform mixed
Redemption from scandal? Ill. ethics reform mixed
By JOHN O'CONNOR – 1 day ago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois politicians running for office next year can say something virtually unheard of in the state's long, shady history: We put limits on the size of campaign contributions.
But they won't actually have to abide by the limits until after the 2010 elections. And when the limits do kick in, they'll contain plenty of loopholes so that in…
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Promising Results in Stomach and Breast Cancer Drugs
New York Times
By ANDREW POLLACK
Published: May 31, 2009
Scientists also announced that a new class of drugs called PARP inhibitors has shown promise against hard-to-treat forms of breast cancer and that a cancer vaccine for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma that struck out twice might have succeeded on a third try.
In a study sponsored by Roche, which sells Herceptin, stomach cancer patients who received Herceptin in addition to standard chemother…
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Air France Jet Disappears on Flight From Brazil to Paris
Published: June 1, 2009
“We have received no news from Flight AF 447,” said an Air France spokeswoman in Paris, Brigitte Barrand.
The plane was carrying 228 people — 216 passengers and 12 crew members. Among the passengers were 126 men, 82 women, seven children and one infant, the airline said. There were nine cabin crew members and three pilots.
One hour after the flight took off at 7 p.m. local time on Sunday, the plane encountered…
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GM Files for Bankruptcy Protection
By Peter Whoriskey
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, June 1, 2009; 8:11 AM
The Obama administration said yesterday that the purpose of the bankruptcy is to restructure the storied automaker, as the government has been attempting do with Chrysler. Officials said their hope is that GM would emerge from the process smaller, with fewer workers and brands, less debt, but also more viable.
The bankruptcy filing came at 8 a.m., according to the Associated Pres…
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N Korea 'prepares missile launch'
Page last updated at 12:20 GMT, Monday, 1 June 2009 13:20 UK
Anti-missile poster in Seoul
North Korea is reportedly moving closer to launching another long-range missile, despite international concern.
South Korean media say the North has moved its most advanced missile to a new launch site on the west coast.
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said there were signs of work being done on a long-range missile, but he said the North's intentions were not yet…
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US & International Cases of Swine Flu Map and Chart
Latest information and news regarding locations of swine flu cases and outbreaks including world death statistics by country.
Swine Flu is also known as swine fever, swine influenza A, H1N1 virus, pig flu, and because pork is banned under Jewish law, Israel is calling it the "Mexican flu."
The World Health Organization (WHO) is not recommending travel restrictions related to the outbreak of the Influenza A(H1N1) virus.
The chart below…
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First Swine Flu Death Reported in New York
By A.G. SULZBERGER and ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS
Published: May 17, 2009
The assistant principal of a Queens school who had been hospitalized with swine flu died on Sunday evening. It was the first death in New York State from the outbreak and came as city officials announced that five more Queens schools had been closed.
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Mitchell Wiener, the assistant principal of Intermediate School 238 in Hollis, Queens, died Sunday.
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Swine flu latest from the NHS
Page last updated 18.00 BST
Agreements have been signed between the UK Government and vaccine manufacturers to secure supplies of up to 90 million doses of pre-pandemic H1N1 (swine flu) vaccine before a pandemic begins, the Department of Health announced today.
The deals signed between Secretary of State for Health, Alan Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline, and Baxter, will enable production of pre-pandemic vaccine to begin as soon as possible.
The agreements could provi…
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Data breach ensnares many in Mass.
Credit and debit card numbers compromised
By Todd Wallack Globe Staff / May 13, 2009
Tens of thousands of Massachusetts consumers have been forced to get new credit or debit cards after cyber thieves hacked one of the nation's largest payment processors and accessed consumers' account information.
Since the security breach at Heartland Payment Systems Inc. was disclosed four months ago, 17 Massachusetts banks have reported that the thieves potentially gaine…
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U.S. NATIONAL DEBT AND
U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK
The Outstanding Public Debt as of 13 May 2009 at 10:55:01 AM GMT is:
$ 1 1 , 2 6 6 , 3 1 8 , 0 5 7 , 3 5 4 . 9 8
The estimated population of the United States is 306,173,218
so each citizen's share of this debt is $36,797.20.
The National Debt has continued to increase an average of
$3.81 billion per day since September 28, 2007!
Concerned? Then tell Congress and the White House! The war and jobless our dragging our country down and if we do…
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