Labor promises free health care
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Australia&#39;s opposition Labor party has promised free health care for anyone over 75 as it launched its campaign for the 9 October federal elections.
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The generous health benefits paid by automakers will be a crucial sticking point in pivotal union negotiations.
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For a monthly fee as low as $50, working-poor residents of Howard County would get access to health services ranging from immunizations and checkups to mental health and hospital care under a plan that county officials say could provide a template for jurisdictions across the nation.
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The U.S. President has said that the problem with health care is the lawyers. He doesn't seem to think that there are any other problems we should be concerned about, and the free market is the best way to determine how much you would be willing to pay for health care. The President is pushing our current system, and his challenger is doing the same.
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To reduce costs, a number of employers are giving away drugs to help workers manage chronic conditions.
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WASHINGTON -- Executives from Wal-Mart and three other major U.S. employers on Wednesday joined hands with union leaders in setting a goal of providing "quality, affordable" health care for every American by 2012.
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(1010 WINS) (NEW YORK) A strike by more than 2,500 home health care aides has been averted. The union and the health care provider that employs them have agreed to take their dispute over hourly wages to binding arbitration.
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Candidates in both parties are promising to work to cover more Americans without health insurance.
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A PROMISE of free hospital care for Australians 75 and over is the cornerstone of Mark Latham&#39;s $3.7 billion bid for the hearts and minds of older voters - and the keys to The Lodge.
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Striking health workers aim for Labour support in their bid to a block the sell-off of the NHS supply agency.
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Labor leader Mark Latham&#39;s plans for older Australians has received a mixed reaction from interest groups. At Labor&#39;s campaign launch yesterday, he promised to pay for the hospital costs of all Australians
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Bloomberg - May 29 (Bloomberg) -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is set today to announce a plan providing universal health care in the U.S. by 2012, to be paid for chiefly by employers and through tax increases on wealthy Americans.
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In an attempt to extend health coverage to uninsured workers, 60 large employers are joining together to sponsor an array of low-cost health insurance options.
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Hundreds of workers gathered at the Lincoln Memorial on Sunday to demand health care, better wages, guaranteed Social Security benefits and an end to the war in Iraq.
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A group of the largest commercial hospital chains plans to propose that individuals be required to have basic health coverage.
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NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 28 -- Hundreds of people still without health insurance in areas hit hard by Hurricane Katrina lined up before dawn Sunday for the start of a week-long event offering free medical care.
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Gov. Blagojevich and state officials breathed a sigh of relief Tuesday as they announced Illinois will get $430 million in federal health care money that should keep hospitals from cutting services for the needy.