Going Global With Concerns on Health Costs
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Calls are deepening for the government to assume more of the costs of medical care through nationalized health care.
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National and local health care experts meet in Waikiki this week to consider the soaring cost of health care and the soaring number of people who have&#39;t got any health coverage, which in Hawaii is 10 percent of the population.
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Cancer, diabetes, obesity and heart disease, already common in rich countries, are a growing problem in the developing world, where they are likely to become the main causes of death by 2015, the World Bank said on Wednesday.
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As wealthy countries spend more on health care, and as poorer countries put new emphasis on prevention, many companies are jumping into vaccine innovation.
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The most authoritative report on the cost of health insurance came out Tuesday, and itÂs sure to cause some new outrage.
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With the first ministers meeting in Ottawa, governments at last seem to be heading down the right track. For the first time in years, the tough questions about the true costs associated with specific health
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By Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Feb. 14--There is a slope. And it is slippery.   Especially, it seems, regarding issues of public health.   Lawmakers in North Dakota and Minnesota have spent lots of time on health  proposals -- bills that protect us from ourselves.
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With the rising cost of health care and over 45-million Americans uninsured, many believe America&#39;s healthcare system needs work.
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Projections for 2005 show that most Americans and businesses should be worried about what is becoming the most costly aspect of their daily lives - paying for health care.
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WASHINGTON -- Routine failure to provide needed health care in the United States came with the price tag of $1.8 billion in additional medical costs and up to 79,000 avoidable deaths, according to a new study.
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Lack of access to routine, quality health care led to as many as 79,000 deaths and $1.8 billion in avoidable medical costs in 2003, according to a new report from a private health care advocacy group.
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With health care the top domestic issue among voters as the nation heads into the 2008 elections, the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease asked presidential candidates Tuesday to focus on ways to prevent, treat and manage chronic diseases that account for more than 75 cents of every dollar spent on health care.
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Our position is: Expansion of government control isn&#39;t the answer to US health-care problems. Soaring health care costs are taking an ever-larger share out of employee paychecks and eating into employer profits.
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ATLANTA - A new study has found that 15 medical conditions accounted for about half of the US$200 billion (S$342 billion) rise in US health spending from 1987 to 2000.
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A system linking the some of the globe's best doctors with the developing world is saving lives.
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While spending on health has tripled over the last 20 years, poor countries are not reaping the benefits, experts warn. BY MICHAEL O BOYLE/The Herald Mexico.
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It&#39;s beginning to look a lot like Canada as far as Americans&#39; opinions about health-care reform and their prescription shopping habits.