Conn. gov. urges lawmakers to adopt her health plan
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Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell on Wednesday urged lawmakers to back her initiative to help the state's lower-income residents pay for their health insurance and reduce the number of uninsured.
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Gov. M. Jodi Rell has breast cancer and underwent surgery today at Danbury Hospital, her office announced. It said the breast cancer was diagnosed last week after a routine mammogram.
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Smokers in Massachusetts would face a 20-cent increase in the tobacco tax under a health care reform plan by Sen. Richard T. Moore to provide health insurance to Bay State families unable to afford it.
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NEW YORK --Virginia Governor Tim Kaine plans to sign legislation mandating use of Merck &amp; Co.'s Gardasil cervical cancer vaccine for school-age girls.
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Governor Mitt Romney has signed a bill that requires health plans to provide coverage for prosthetic limbs.
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The state wants to charge low-income residents too much for health insurance coverage, says state Senator Richard T. Moore , a key architect of the healthcare overhaul law.
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Give the government&#39;s flu plan time to work, US Secretary of Health Tommy Thompson told local physicians and patients Monday during a Bradenton visit to stump for medical liability reform and the re-election of President Bush.
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The nation's health care system should be overhauled through plans tailored to individual states, not through a federal government takeover, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Friday.
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In the absence of federal action, governors and state legislators are transforming the health care system.
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Michael O. Leavitt, the secretary of health and human services, called Tuesday for sweeping changes in Medicaid.
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One of New England's top business leaders says companies should contribute more to employees' health insurance than is required by the state's healthcare revamp law.
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By John Moritz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb. 6--AUSTIN -- State Sen. Jane Nelson, a Lewisville Republican who heads the Senate's committee on health policy, urged Gov.
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A state official yesterday proposed sweeping changes to the state's safe driver insurance plan that he said would slightly lower the rates of good drivers, sharply increase the rates of bad drivers, and remove surcharges from driving records faster.
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BOSTON -- There is a lot of talk about overhauling health care in the United States, but Massachusetts is actually trying to do it -- again.
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Governors from both parties appealed yesterday for the Bush administration and Congress to provide more money for a health-care program that insures millions of children.
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Connecticut Gov. Jodi Rell underwent breast cancer surgery yesterday after doctors discovered the disease in its very early stages, the governorâs office said.
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CONCORD, NH -- Federal health officials posed several questions to the state Thursday about proposed Medicaid changes. Health authorities want to know how the state would set limits on care, how it would decide