Senate Chief: Cut number of state&#39;s uninsured in half by 2006
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Just before landing one of the three most powerful posts on Beacon Hill in 2002, Senate President Robert Travaglini underwent bypass surgery and battled thyroid cancer.
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The U.S. Senate on Tuesday approved legislation that would extend through March 2009 the State Children's Health Insurance Program that currently covers about 6.6 million poor children.
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Steps aimed at cutting Medicare fraud and payment errors in half over the next four years were announced by U.S. health officials on Monday.
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Steps aimed at cutting Medicare  fraud and payment errors in half over the next four years were  announced by U.S. health officials on Monday.
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Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry Monday said we need a fresh start on health care in America, and he outlined his plan to help middle-class families by cutting costs and expanding access to quality care.
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Michael Leavitt, President Bush&#39;s choice to be secretary of Health and Human Services, may have to cut billions of dollars from the government&#39;s mammoth health programs for
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WASHINGTON - A senator suggested Tuesday that money federal health officials have sought to upgrade flu vaccine production is on the way - an effort to avoid another year like this one, when the United States lost nearly half its supply of vaccine.
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The average uninsured Massachusetts resident could obtain health care coverage for as little as $175 a month under the state's insurance law, less than half of earlier estimates, officials said Saturday.
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October 22, 2004 -- ALBANY - The multibillion-dollar health-care program that helps fund everything from medical colleges to insurance for poor children may run a shortfall by the end of the state fiscal year, Comptroller Alan Hevesi warned yesterday.
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In Tennessee, nearly a half-million people are warned they could lose their government-supported health care. In Maine, the move is in the opposite direction &#151; the state is expanding its role and, with reliance on the private sector, aiming to provide affordable health insurance for all 138,000 residents now without it.
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BOSTON -- The average uninsured Massachusetts resident could obtain health care coverage for as little as $175 a month under the state's insurance law, less than half of earlier estimates, officials said Saturday.
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Republican presidential hopeful Mitt  Romney on Friday unveiled his plan for overhauling the U.S.  health care system with tax breaks and other incentives aimed  at helping the 45 million Americans without health insurance.
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Almost half of the states may have to choose in the years ahead between their pension obligations and other public programs.
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SACRAMENTO, California  - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday vowed to press on with legislation to provide health insurance to his state's uninsured, a day after a universal health care bill he backed died in a Senate committee.
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A doctors group expects a serious shortfall of family physicians in at least five states by 2020.
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Of 45 million US uninsured, 60 percent work in small businesses.
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Hospitals, doctors, and health centers last year provided $1.1 billion of medical care to Massachusetts residents without health insurance, according to a report that's part of a new push to cover the state's uninsured workers.