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Health Guide USA Pending health reform legislation could impose penalties on consumers with the wrong kind of health insurance coverage, as author Andrew Heinze explains in this recent article.
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Andrew Heinze writes in The Wall Street Journal that Congress wants the nation to adopt the same rules that have made health-care coverage expensive in New York.
Health Guide USA Recent surveys show further deterioration in the emloyer-based health insurance market as high costs push businesses, particularly smaller ones, to drop coverage for employees.
www.healthreform.gov
Insurance at Risk: Small Business Employees Risk Losing Coverage
Health Guide USA If covered by a group health insurance program, there is a good chance your open enrollment period is approaching. Here are some words of advice from the AHRQ about health plan options to consider during your open enrollment process.
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Brief, easy-to-understand advice columns for consumers helps them identify high-quality health care.
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24%
of respondents in a recent Kaiser Family Foundation poll report
problems with paying medical bills incurred in the last year.
Health Guide USA For fruit and vegetable recipes, try this CDC search tool - a nice feature is that most recipes come with nutritional fact sheets.
apps.nccd.cdc.gov
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Health Guide USA Here's a good graph that breaks down what has happened with family insurance premiums over the past ten years - and it isn't pretty.
Health Guide USA Big business warns that without reform, runaway healthcare costs will threaten the employer-based health insurance system that exists in the U.S. today.
money.aol.com
A new report released today by Business Roundtable, an association of chief executive officers of leading U.S. companies, finds that annual per employee health care costs will triple to nearly $29,000 ...
Health Guide USA Recent findings indicate being overweight is bad for your brain. Ugh!
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A look into the brains of obese and overweight people finds less than you might have thought.
Health Guide USA In recent days Health Care Co-Operatives are getting more attention in the health reform debate. Some overview and commentary about health care co-operatives is offered by The Heritage Foundation at the link below.
www.heritage.org
As the U.S. Senate begins final preparations to mark-up health care reform, some key Senators are considering cooperatives as an alternative to a public health plan. The aim is to provide a health plan ...
Health Guide USA For anyone curious about how much the U.S. spends on health care relative to other industrialized nations, the link below will take you to an OECD resource that provides a nice snapshot of the situation.
www.oecd.org
Health Guide USA The Kaiser Family Foundation provides a great online tool for comparing the various health reform proposals under consideration.
www.kff.org
Achieving comprehensive health reform has emerged as a leading priority of the President and Congress. President Obama has outlined eight principles for health reform, seeking to address not only the 45 million people who lack health insurance, but also rising health care costs and lack of quality. ...
Health Guide USA Americans without health insurance make up about 15% of the population and new data indicates that they account for almost 20% of emergency room visits.
www.hhs.gov
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today released new data from the Nationwide Emergency Department Sample -- the largest, all-payer emergency department database in the United States.
Health Guide USA We've updated most of our historical and projected national health expenditures charts. You can check them out via the link below to our National Healthcare Costs page.
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this is a compendium of National Healthcare Cost charts and tables
Health Guide USA The U.S. Food and Drug Administration provides a useful online resource for keeping abreast of health related product recalls and safety alerts.
www.fda.gov
This section includes the most significant product actions over the last five years based on the extent of distribution and the degree of health risk. In this section, you will find a listing of FDA and industry press releases regarding the product recalls.
Health Guide USA Observations about Canada's health system from a Canadian living in the U.S.
www.commondreams.org
As a Canadian living in the United States for the past 17 years, I am frequently asked by Americans and Canadians alike to declare one health care system as the better one.
