Getting Health Care Polling Right In my recent post on the issue of quality in health care, I spoke a little about how public opinion can be a poor guide when it comes to understanding the full scope of our health care problems. I noted that, according to Gallup polls, ...Steve Jobs health mystery clarified After insistence from executives that Steve Jobs is fine, it turns out he's had surgery to help his digestion following his cancer treatment four years ago. AOL expands health site More content and tools--and advertising opportunity--comes to AOL Health from Caring.com, Health.com, and Healthcare.com. Crossing the line on Steve Jobs' health Apple CEO Steve Jobs' appearance at WWDC in June prompted all sorts of speculation that his cancer had returned... but is it any of our business? Jobs Reassures Colleagues on Health Front Steve Jobs has been reassuring associates and colleagues about the state of his health, according to the New York Times. After undergoing treatment four years ago for a rare form of pancreatic cancer, Jobs is “cancer-free,” according to ... Your Health Care May Decide The 2008 Election People worry a lot about affording health care. Workers accept lower wages with employers that offer health care. They hang onto lousy jobs to keep their health care. Most labor negotiations and disputes center largely on the costs of ... Rushing NOT! to Protect Workers’ Health “It’s is good news that the Labor Department is proposing new rules for evaluating different health risks. …Some OSHA rules have more stringent standards than do American trading partners, with the result that businesses have an ... Health savings accounts HSAs take one market segment -- usually a relatively wealthy and health care-satisfied segment -- and introduce one marginal improvement of incentives. This doesn't seem to help much in terms of lowering aggregate costs. ... Statement by Delegates For Platform to Guarantee "Health Care for All" John Conyers, a leader for health care reform on Capitol Hill, is the first Democratic National Convention delegate to sign a new statement urging that the convention adopt a plank in the 2008 party platform to "guarantee accessible ... Parsing Obama’s Promise to Lower Insurance Premiums by $2500 Barack Obama says his plan to re-tool American health care would “bring down premiums by $2500 for the typical family.” In a page one story this morning, the New York Times digs into the details behind that promise. ...
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