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  • Health reform ignores Catch-22 system 21 Nov 2009 01:11 GMT
    ... Don't expect the health care reform convulsion Congress is in right ... it's a needed start, a panel of Alaska health experts told Anchorage business and community ... bills that address the looming shortage of medical practitioners, he said. Another inconvenient truth: increasing ...

  • Gripes about H1N1 vaccine abound 21 Nov 2009 06:44 GMT
    ... flu vaccination program began in early October, health officials predicted it was going to be ... seven months ago. “You have a brand-new disease that gets identified in April. By October, ... at the state and local level. In Alaska, deliveries have lagged significantly, and other states ...

  • Across U.S., gripes about swine-flu vaccine abound 21 Nov 2009 08:59 GMT
    ... plagued with problems and information gaps: — Health officials have been terrible at predicting when ... seven months ago. "You have a brand-new disease that gets identified in April. By October, ... at the state and local level. In Alaska, deliveries have lagged significantly, and other states ...

  • Begich will be in the middle of health care reform fray 21 Nov 2009 01:11 GMT
    ... When health care reform finally hits the floor of ... Senate, most likely after the Thanksgiving holiday, Alaska Sen. Mark Begich plans to be in ... negotiate prices for drugs with pharmaceutcal companies. Medicaid and the Veterans Adminstration now negotiate prices ...

  • Moderate Dems pivotal in Saturday health care vote 21 Nov 2009 00:11 GMT
    ... Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., gestures during a health care reform news conference on Capitol Hill ... Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl of ... Congress had the potential to tame runaway medical inflation. Of the three centrists, Landrieu has ...

  • Historic health care bill nears key Senate vote 21 Nov 2009 20:53 GMT
    ... Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., speak during a health care reform news conference on Capitol Hill ... and curtail the growth of spending on medical care nationally. Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin ... R-S.D., left, accompanied by Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl of ...

  • LSN NewsBytes - Life Issues, Religion, Swine Flu, US Politics, Sarah Palin, Miscellaneous 21 Nov 2009 16:17 GMT
    ... the project, a statement from the Catholic Medical Association reported. It includes three videos that ... the entire brouhaha over Obamacare. I expected health care reform to be introduced. But I ... cite polls to demonstrate that the former Alaska governor is unpopular. Yet her book is ...

  • Dems snare 60 votes to move ahead on health care 21 Nov 2009 20:32 GMT
    ... Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., speak during a health care reform news conference on Capitol Hill ... Jon Kyl of Ariz., Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas. (AP Photo/Manuel ... allowed to deny coverage to people with medical conditions or drop coverage when someone gets ...

  • 59 and counting: Health care bill nears test vote 21 Nov 2009 18:51 GMT
    ... Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., speak during a health care reform news conference on Capitol Hill ... allowed to deny coverage to people with medical conditions or drop coverage when someone gets ... R-S.D., left, accompanied by Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl of ...

  • Health care bill faces a crucial Senate vote 21 Nov 2009 16:32 GMT
    ... Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., speaks during a health care reform news conference on Capitol Hill ... R-S.D., left, accompanied by Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl of ... allowed to deny coverage to people with medical conditions or drop coverage when someone gets ...

  • Initial Senate vote looms on health legislation 21 Nov 2009 09:00 GMT
    ... by Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., leave a health care reform news conference on Capitol Hill ... allowed to deny coverage to people with medical conditions or drop coverage when someone gets ... R-S.D., left, accompanied by Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl of ...

  • GOP: Health test recommendations could affect care 21 Nov 2009 00:10 GMT
    ... and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care - and to try to chip ... by women for President Barack Obama's proposed health care overhaul. "This is how rationing starts," ... the future." Said Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska: "Those recommendations will be used by the ...

  • $10 Million In Grants Aimed At Enrolling American Indian, Alaska Native Kids In Health Care To Be Awarded 21 Nov 2009 00:42 GMT
    ... grants to help reach American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) children who qualify for, but ... not yet enrolled, in and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). These new grants are ... enroll uninsured children who are eligible for Medicaid or CHIP but not enrolled. The Children's ...

  • Health test recommendations could affect care 21 Nov 2009 00:46 GMT
    ... GOP: Health test recommendations could affect care WASHINGTON - ... and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care - and to try to chip ... the future." Said Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska: "Those recommendations will be used by the ...

  • Health test recommendations could affect care 21 Nov 2009 00:55 GMT
    ... and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care - and to try to chip ... by women for President Barack Obama's proposed health care overhaul. "This is how rationing starts," ... the future." Said Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska: "Those recommendations will be used by the ...

  • $10 Million In Grants Aimed At Enrolling American Indian, Alaska Native Kids In Health Care To Be Awarded 21 Nov 2009 01:17 GMT
    ... grants to help reach American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) children who qualify for, but ... not yet enrolled, in and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). These new grants are ... enroll uninsured children who are eligible for Medicaid or CHIP but not enrolled. The Children's ...

  • GOP targets advisories in health care debate 21 Nov 2009 05:54 GMT
    ... GOP targets advisories in health care debate By Laurie Kellman - Associated ... and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care - and to try to chip ... the future." Said Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska: "Those recommendations will be used by the ...

  • GOP: Women's Health Recommendations Could Affect Care 21 Nov 2009 05:57 GMT
    ... and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care — and to try to chip ... by women for President Barack Obama's proposed health care overhaul. "This is how rationing starts," ... the future." Said Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska: "Those recommendations will be used by the ...

  • 1st Senate vote looms on health legislation 21 Nov 2009 11:31 GMT
    ... by Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., leave a health care reform news conference on Capitol Hill ... allowed to deny coverage to people with medical conditions or drop coverage when someone gets ... R-S.D., left, accompanied by Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl of ...

  • Pap, mammogram reports fuel GOP case against health bill 21 Nov 2009 12:32 GMT
    ... and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care — and to try to influence ... women to reject President Barack Obama’s proposed health care overhaul. “This is how rationing starts,” ... the future.” Said Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska: “Those recommendations will be used by the ...

  • GOP links new cancer-test advice to rationing 21 Nov 2009 14:51 GMT
    ... and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care - and to try to chip ... support by women for President Obama's proposed health care overhaul. "This is how rationing starts," ... the future." Said Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska: "Those recommendations will be used by the ...

  • Health Recommendations Could Affect Care 21 Nov 2009 16:10 GMT
    ... and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care -- and to try to chip ... by women for President Barack Obama's proposed health care overhaul. "This is how rationing starts," ... the future." Said Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska: "Those recommendations will be used by the ...

  • GOP: Health Recommendations Could Affect Care 21 Nov 2009 17:17 GMT
    ... and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care -- and to try to chip ... by women for President Barack Obama's proposed health care overhaul. "This is how rationing starts," ... the future." Said Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska: "Those recommendations will be used by the ...

  • GOP: Health test recommendations could affect care 21 Nov 2009 00:46 GMT
    ... the future." Said Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska: "Those recommendations will be used by the ... had nothing to do with the big health care bill. And besides, they said, the ... specter of the government making deeply personal medical decisions for millions of Americans - in ...

  • GOP: Cancer test advice may taint care 21 Nov 2009 06:24 GMT
    ... and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care -- and to try to chip ... by women for President Barack Obama's proposed health care overhaul. "This is how rationing starts," ... the future." Said Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska: "Those recommendations will be used by the ...


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