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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Summaries of several recent developments related to health care issues in the presidential election appear below.Health care as election issue: The Washington Times on Tuesday examined how "voters seem to be focused on the general state of the economy rather than improving health coverage" in the presidential election.
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Mercury Rising 鳯女 (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Judith Graham writes a blog about health issues for the Chicago Tribune. She asked Uwe Reinhardt, the James Madison professor of political economy at Princeton University, to assess the Presidential candidates’ proposals for health care. Is Sen. Barack Obama’s health reform plan affordable, I asked one of the nation’s most distinguished health care economists [...]
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GraniteGrok (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
... — it won’t be Congress writing the checks — the ten-year cost is projected at only $3.4 billion . (Judith Graham, “Triage”/Chicago Tribune, Oct. 3). Next week lawmakers will go back to complaining that health insurance has become prohibitively expensive and that much of the population is priced out of buying it altogether. Mickey Kaus remembers where we’ve seen this sort of feel-good...
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Guide to Midwestern Culture (Free subscription) | 09/27/2008
Chicago Tribune reporter Judith Graham calls it the law of unintended consequences . I call it the law of government overextension: Parents are abandoning teenagers at Nebraska hospitals, in a case of a well intentioned law inspiring unintended results. Over the last two weeks, moms or dads have dropped off seven teens at hospitals in the Cornhusker state, indicating they didn’t want...
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Poverty News Blog (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
from the Chicago Tribune By Judith Graham A groundbreaking bill extending hospital discounts to people without health insurance has become law after the legislature overturned Gov. Rod Blagojevich's amendatory veto. The Illinois House voted 97-0 Tuesday to endorse the original measure, which was passed unanimously in June. The Senate's vote Monday was 55-0. The legislation requires hospitals...
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Schwitzer health news blog (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
... as effective as regular colonoscopy for detecting colon polyps that can lead to cancer.Jeer to Judith Graham of the Chicago Tribune for failing to note Johnson’s ties to GE in her story on the colon cancer screening study.Jeer to Liz Szabo of USAToday, who quoted Harvard Medical School emeritus professor Robert Fletcher touting the availability of new and better colon cancer screening...
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One Old Vet (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Undocumented immigrant in coma dies at West Side hospital before deportation Mexican man in U.S. 11 years had brain hemorrhage in July, sister says By Judith Graham and Deanese Williams-Harris | Chicago Tribune reporters A 30-year-old Mexican man who was in a coma, and whose treatment for a brain hemorrhage at the University of Illinois Medical Center at [...]
