 Los Angeles Times | California health insurers to raise average rates 8% to 14% Los Angeles Times Anthem is California's largest for-profit health insurer. (David McNew / Getty Images / February 22, 2012) By Chad Terhune, Los Angeles Times California's largest health insurers are raising average rates by about 8% to 14% for hundreds of thousands of ... |
 Baltimore Sun | Lesbian federal worker wins health benefits case CBS News A federal judge in San Francisco says the US government cannot deny health benefits to the wife of a lesbian court employee by relying on the 1996 law that bars government recognition of same-sex unions. US District Judge Jeffrey White ruled Wednesday ... Federal judge rules government cannot deny health benefits to same-sex spouses Gay spouse given health benefits in US court case |
 USA TODAY | Health Care's Coming Price Revolution Wall Street Journal Two years on, the major achievement of President Obama's new entitlement and its regulatory apparatus has been to heighten the contradictions and dysfunctions of the health-care status quo even as it creates multiple new problems. Feds loan $638M for health co-ops in 8 states Health care co-ops in 8 states get federal loans State insurance exchange awarded $11.6 million to adjust to Affordable Care Act |
Philly health official: Proposed state budget cuts "a recipe for disaster" Philadelphia Inquirer By Jennifer Lin and Miriam Hill Philadelphia Health Commissioner Donald F. Schwarz said Wednesday that Gov. Corbett's proposed cuts for human services were "alarming" and predicted a rise in the city's homeless population. |
 AFP | Chávez Health Struggle Stokes Political Uncertainties Wall Street Journal By KEJAL VYAS and José de Córdoba CARACAS—New uncertainties about Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's health are threatening to spur a power struggle to succeed him among the factions that make up his political movement, and boosting the hopes of a ... Chávez's health will impact Venezuelan elections Chavez health setback creates uncertainty in Venezuela Venezuelan Bonds Rally on Chavez Health Concerns: Caracas Mover |
 The Guardian | Health workers linked to CIA's Osama bin Laden assassination plot are sacked The Guardian Seventeen local health workers have been fired in Abbottabad for their part in a CIA scheme to try to confirm the presence of Osama bin Laden in the northern Pakistani town. The low-ranking health department employees were punished for helping Dr ... Pakistani health workers punished for helping US find bin Laden Pakistan health workers linked to CIA scheme fired |
 Fox News | 5 killed in possible murder-suicide at Georgia health spa Fox News A gunman shot four people to death inside a Korean health spa in Atlanta's suburbs and then killed himself in what police said may have been a case of domestic violence. Surveillance video showed a man walking into the Su Jung Health Sauna on Tuesday ... Police: Victims in Korean spa shooting near Atlanta were 2 married couples ... Police: Ga. victims related in Korean spa shooting Atlanta health club shooting stemmed from domestic dispute - police |
 Daily Mail | Animated clash on health care as candidates debate morality of birth control Daily Mail The most animated clash of the evening focused on health care. Santorum said that Romney had used government funds to 'fund a federal takeover of health care in Massachusetts,' a reference to the state law that was enacted during Romney's term as ... Fiery charges: Romney, Santorum assail each other GOP Debate to Rape Victims: Drop Dead Romney, Santorum go on attack in GOP debate |
 Portsmouth News | Balancing women's health and religious beliefs U-T San Diego By Nora Vargas As a Catholic woman, I applaud the Obama administration for its commitment to providing health care for all Americans while respecting the views of those who have religious objections to birth control. Last year, President Obama ... Should religion stand in the way of common sense when it comes to birth control? Obama's semantical change doesn't make insurance costs disappear Tom Cushing is a member (registered user) of San Ramon Express |
 BigPond News | Mental-Health Cuts by US States Risk Boosting Health Costs BusinessWeek 22 (Bloomberg) -- US states looking to balance budgets by cutting mental-health facilities and Medicaid payments risk increasing health-care costs by pushing psychiatric patients into emergency rooms. States trimmed 9.5 percent, or more than $1.6 ... 47% of youth hide mental ill health New website to help mental health patients |
Google News