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There is a huge difference between a state-based voluntary exchange, and a national health insurance exchange ... The national health insurance exchange combined with the public plan creates a scenario where the government plays regulator and competitor. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Bolgatanga Town Hall Meeting was very interactive Oct 13, 2009
Mr. John Akaribo, former assembly member for Nyariga-Doone wanted to know whether health workers and employees of the National Health Insurance Scheme, could be held accountable to the public and if yes. The specific areas they could be they called to account for their stewardship. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
* Labor body accuses the government of exploiting workers Oct 10, 2009
According to labor and contract laws, an employer is required to pay part of an employees labor and national health insurance premiums, as well as contribute to the employees retirement fund. But when the firm X or a government agency X chooses to contract out the job, it does not have to worry about these payments. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Moore takes us inside capitalist system Oct 10, 2009
But when we finally get national health insurance, Michael Moore will deserve credit for helping make it happen. In his new movie Capitalism: A Love Story, Moore takes on the economic system we've all been programmed to love. (Herald Online, SC -- Opinion)
Ten NHIS managers, accountants and five service providers interdicted Oct 10, 2009
Accra, Oct. 9, GNA - A special audit exercise undertaken by the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), has found 10 national health insurance scheme managers, accountants and five service providers in the Ashanti Region culpable of misappropriating funds. They have been interdicted and asked to report to the Ashanti Regional Serious Fraud Office (SFO) in Kumasi for further investigations. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Local health care leaders agree on need for reform Oct 10, 2009
Health economist and consultant Albert Lowey-Ball: Some version of national health insurance ; that will expand coverage to (millions) of uninsured ; would be of tremendous help to California nonprofit clinics, nonprofit hospitals, nonprofit primary-care providers and nonprofit heath plans. Envision chief executive officer Kevin Nagle: I see this is going to be a love fest about universal health coverage. (Sacramento Business Journal, CA)
Legal and operational issues identified in NHIS Oct 9, 2009
Accra, Oct. 8, GNA - The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) on Thursday said 59 legal and 108 implementation and operational issues have been identified in the operations of the Scheme. In a presentation to the Parliamentary Select Committee on Health in Accra on the theme, "Change We Must and Yes We Can", a consultant, Dr Raymond Atuguba, said the research was conducted among stakeholders across the country. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
* Eleven more people hospitalized with swine flu: center Oct 8, 2009
Five hospitals said they would decline patients requests to be quarantined in rooms covered by the National Health Insurance. A single room, however, would cost approximately NT$4,600 a day and the fee would not be covered by the National Health Insurance. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Instil discipline in subordinates - urges KATH CEO Oct 8, 2009
Prof Ohene Adjei said with the increasing complexity and enormity in health care delivery, coupled with the advent of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), which was exerting tremendous pressure on service delivery, there was the need to draw up effective strategies to respond to the emerging challenges by improving efficiency through waste reduction and productivity enhancement. "Our patients deserve better services than what they are getting now and I will like to entreat all of you to... (Ghana Web, Ghana)
NHIA reviews medicines list Oct 7, 2009
Accra, Oct. 6, GNA - The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) on Tuesday said it had revised the medicine list of the National Health Insurance Scheme with effect from October 1. The Standard Treatment Guidelines (STGs) are also under review and new medicines that are more efficacious would be introduced after the review, Executive Secretary of NHIA, Mr. Sylvester Mensah said at a press conference in Accra. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Your views: Healthy debate Oct 7, 2009
Dont allow feds more health controlSundays editorial, Stop the nonsense, states as a given that national health insurance reforms on the table will cut costs and expand medical coverage. It states these plans are good for us and we should go along with what the federal government has in store for us. (Florida Today)
Read more ... Oct 7, 2009
THE ANC has listed on its website key features of the proposed national health insurance (NHI) scheme, which it says will ensure that every citizen has access to the same level of quality health care irrespective of their employment status or income. The ruling party speaks of social solidarity, which means that those people who can afford treatment will subsidise those who can't. (Business Report, South Africa)
Read the 'JER' transcript Oct 6, 2009
FUND: The only way 000005B2 the European countries have been able to afford national health insurance is by all of them imposing a hidden tax, and that is the next step after we pass this massive entitlement program. GIGOT: Kim, the momentum in Washington is still pretty strong in favor of this bill passing, is it not. (Fox News)
Abuse of National Health Insurance Scheme Oct 5, 2009
Rather, this paper seeks to focus on the forms of exploitative and profiteering schemes of service providers to the National Health Insurance scheme often at the blind side of patients ... The National Health Insurance Scheme after just a few years of operation have seen its resources almost sublime through fraudulent payments being made to unscrupulous service providers ... There was also support for and training of traditional birth attendants and the main streaming of herbal medicine and the... (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Our views: Stop the nonsense Oct 4, 2009
Youd think the shocking statistics would have Florida lawmakers supporting national health insurance reforms designed to cut costs and expand medical coverage to many more Americans. Instead, some are seeking to block the change and needlessly waste Floridas taxpayers dollars to boot. (Florida Today)
* National health insurance deficit going up: minister Oct 4, 2009
National health insurance deficit going up: minister. MATTER OF TIME: Department of Health Minister Yaung Chih-liang says the national health insurance system can not be maintained without raising some premium rates STAFF WRITER, WITH CNA Sunday, Oct 04, 2009, Page 2 ... The nations national health insurance system will face a bigger deficit next year than the NT$55. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Gold Fish Has No Hiding Place. Oct 3, 2009
Do not forget the contributions of our donor countries into the NPP laudable programmes like the School Feeding Programme and the National Health Insurance Scheme ... Amongst them The National Health Insurance Scheme, Capitation Grant, School Feeding Programme, The National Youth Employment Scheme and the Metro Mass Transit Programmes. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Bulgaria—September 2009 Staff Visit, Concluding Statement Oct 2, 2009
Reform of the health sector is needed not only to rebalance the public finances of the National Health Insurance Fund but also to deliver more effective and efficient health care services. 12. (IMF News)
* DOH under fire over premiums Oct 2, 2009
The National Health Insurance Civic Surveillance Alliance (NHICSA) yesterday denounced the Department of Healths (DOH) plan to raise National Health Insurance (NHI) premiums ... Legislators from across the political spectrum also unanimously voiced opposition yesterday to the plan to raise the national health insurance premium rate from next year, saying the time was not right for such a move ... Wang said the proposed premium hike should not be introduced until the Taipei City government... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Asahi Kasei Launches 'Reveal DX' Insertable Cardiac Monitor Oct 1, 2009 * Seniors to get integrated medical care Sep 26, 2009 Obamacare: Buy insurance or go to jail! Sep 26, 2009 Sight Savers and Hohoe Hospital builds eye centre Sep 26, 2009 Letters to the Editor Sep 25, 2009 10 comments Sep 25, 2009 Africa: Groups Oppose Fees for Healthcare [analysis] Sep 25, 2009 Ghanaian civil society welcomes national insurance reform Sep 25, 2009 Liberal Lies About National Health Care, Part 5 Sep 24, 2009 DCE appeals to Muslims to use Ramadan to end Bawku conflict Sep 24, 2009 tireless environmentalist Sep 23, 2009 Obamacare and the $13 rule Sep 23, 2009 Ghana should provide free health care- NGO Sep 23, 2009 Health Reform Is Just Subterfuge; Dream Is Democratic Dictatorship Sep 23, 2009 Obama: Health insurance mandate no tax increase Sep 21, 2009 South Africa: Ruling Party Calls for Urgent Alliance Meeting Sep 21, 2009 Read the story Sep 21, 2009 Where Do our policymakers get their ideas Sep 20, 2009 How U.S. compares Sep 19, 2009 Outstanding Arrears Choke NHIS Sep 19, 2009 More fights ahead in Congress over health care Sep 19, 2009 Study links deaths to lack of insurance Sep 19, 2009 National health insurance Sep 19, 2009 WHITTAKER: A final wish is a caring gift Sep 19, 2009 Jack Bernard: Selfish people block health reform Sep 18, 2009 Richest country can fund adequate care Sep 18, 2009 Public sector no longer has monopoly over healthcare - Sosi Sep 18, 2009 Shocked, shocked to find socialism in America Sep 17, 2009 Utility service providers urged to be polite to clients Sep 16, 2009 Dan Botwe visits Toronto Sep 16, 2009 Nine Months Of Ndc Rule In Ghana -My Perspective Sep 16, 2009 Medical Imaging Equipment Finds Significant Uptake in Ghana, Finds Frost & Sullivan Sep 15, 2009 Defence Minister inspects Diagnostic Imaging Machine Sep 15, 2009 Food vendors want their medical screening to be covered by NHIS Sep 15, 2009 Obama expects 'good health care bill' Sep 14, 2009 * BNHI set to raise some premiums Sep 13, 2009 American-Canadian relationship is close -- but complex Sep 13, 2009 NHIS essential drug list to be released in October Sep 12, 2009 NHIS- The Missing Link! Sep 11, 2009 Distortions -- or Truths? Sep 10, 2009 Ashanti Region needs a regional hospital Sep 9, 2009 Health workers call for new policy on health insurance Sep 9, 2009 Docs’ orders where costs escalate Sep 9, 2009 * Structural threats facing Taiwan Sep 9, 2009 Ghana, A Religious Zoo? Sep 9, 2009 Our attitude is haunting us....(2) Sep 8, 2009 Letters for Monday, September 7, 2009 (828) Sep 8, 2009 Bailout Nation: Obama and Congress Get F in Economics Sep 7, 2009 Sangomas want part in NHI scheme Sep 7, 2009 After long decline, state's welfare rolls surge Sep 7, 2009 Letters for Saturday, September 5, 2009 Sep 6, 2009 Public health nurses should focus on nutritional goals Sep 6, 2009 White House NOT working on health bill? Sep 6, 2009 Swampscott Democrats rally for healthcare reform Sep 5, 2009 * Taipei clarifies stance on land swap to repay debts Sep 5, 2009 80% of Okwahuman South on Health Insurance Scheme Sep 5, 2009 South Africa: Haste Won't Solve Anything [editorial] Sep 5, 2009 Britain rejects report calling for health cuts Sep 4, 2009 US Congressional Delegation Visits AfDB's Key Projects in Rwanda Sep 4, 2009 UK doctors question treatment of terminally ill Sep 4, 2009 U.K. doctors question treatment of terminally ill Sep 4, 2009 Ghana on track to halving poverty before 2015 Sep 4, 2009 Reverse Nazism And The Healthcare War Sep 4, 2009 Guest opinion: Single-payer is best option Sep 3, 2009 Teens picket for women's Rx Sep 3, 2009
Tokyo, Oct 1, 2009 (JCN) - Asahi Kasei begins sales of the Reveal(R) DX insertable cardiac monitor in Japan on October 1, the date the device will be applicable for coverage by Japan's National Health Insurance. Asahi Kasei acquired the exclusive rights for domestic sale of the monitor from Medtronic Japan in July 2008. (JCN Network, Japan)
After long decline, state's welfare rolls surge Sep 30, 2009
Attorney Vince Brown said the group is concerned the state may be illegally discouraging needy families from applying not only for welfare, but federal entitlement programs such as food stamps and Medicaid, the national health insurance program for the poor. "We are really trying to balance the budget on the backs of the people who are most vulnerable," Brown said. (Yahoo News -- Welfare Reform)
Starting on Dec. 1, integrated outpatient services are to be made available for senior citizens with chronic diseases at participating hospitals, the Bureau of National Health Insurance announced on Thursday. The bureau hopes the plan will save more than NT$3 billion (US$90 million) a year. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
is in all likelihood dropped; both the Bacus and Wyden-Bennett bill contain all of these items: (a) Federal Regulation aka HEALTH CZAR/DEATH PANELS/RATIONING (b) Employer/Individual Mandates aka NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE (c) Government Subsidies aka MIDDLE CLASS MEDICAL WELFARE With the Federal Government setting the rules, forcing everyone to participate, and is paying the bills for most of the middle class through subsidies how is this anything other than Nationalization ... is in all... (The Drudge Report)
He said for clients under the National Health Insurance Scheme are covered except for the optical service. Dr Danoo called on members of the public to report all cases relating to the eye in earnest and refrain from self-medication to avoid causing irreparable damages to the eye as an organ. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Pending proposals for national health insurance reform will increase the services available to children with special needs ... Pending proposals for national health insurance reform will help families of children with special health care needs and disabilities. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
Carter wanted to impose a national health insurance system. His plan: regulated minimum health insurance paid for by businesses; public coverage for the poor and elderly; and a public option to sell coverage to the uncovered. (Human Events Online)
Sierra Leone's free-care policy will be part of a two-pronged approach, with a national health insurance scheme to be introduced in the coming years, according to Health Ministry officials. Burundi. (allAfrica.com)
Accra, Sept 24, GNA - The Essential Services Platform, a Ghanaian civil society group, on Thursday welcomed President John Evans Atta Mills' announcement at the UN General Assembly meeting in New York to reform the National Health Insurance payment system and provide payment exemptions for some of the most marginalized in society ... " The statement praised Ghana's commitment to move from annual premium payments, to a one-time premium payment system with registration-fee exemption for the... (Ghana Web, Ghana)
(b) Employer/Individual Mandates aka NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE. (c) Government Subsidies aka MIDDLE CLASS MEDICAL WELFARE. (Townhall.com)
He urged them to invest in the education of their children and also register with the National Health Insurance Scheme. They prayed for the leadership of the nation, the regions and the districts. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
He honored his father by pushing for national health insurance and was chosen in 1965 to wield the gavel when the House passed Medicare. Then, as now, many members of Congress coveted seats on Ways and Means or Armed Services, but Dingell preferred to master the process outside the spotlight. (Harper's Magazine)
Remember, the most effective US senator in the past century - Edward Kennedy, who died last month at the age of 77 - spent most of his 46 years in the senate fighting for national health insurance and failed to achieve his goal. Bill Clinton boldly took up Kennedy's cause at the beginning of his first presidential term. (Asia Times Online)
It said at the end of 2008 only 54 per cent of the population registered under the National Health Insurance Scheme. The statement said failure to provide free public health care means that millions of Ghanaians were paying with their lives. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Another way the Democrats inadvertently reveal their own national health insurance dishonesty is through infidelity to a second objective cost control. Remember that one. (Investors Business Daily)
El Gabilon wrote on Sep 8, 2009 2:49 PM:" As we understand it, Medicare pays 80% and the remainder is paid for by ones supplemental insurance. Secondly in order to get the rich to pay their fair share of taxes, it is up to us as citizens to write, email, call, demand, etc. that the congress sees that it is done. When the demand is great you have a chance, when it is not forgedaboudit. We do not agree with fines for people who do not have health insurance. We believe it is in the best interests... (Longview Daily News, WA)
Other issues up for discussion are SA's response to the economic downturn, corruption, the proposed national health insurance scheme and the planning commission. Mantashe said that the ANC's top brass had ordered all party structures to stop the succession debate. (allAfrica.com)
"WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) - More than half of U.S. doctors now favor switching to a national health care plan and fewer than a third oppose the idea, according to a survey published on Monday.Of more than 2,000 doctors surveyed, 59 percent said they support legislation to establish a national health insurance program, while 32 percent said they opposed it, researchers reported in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.". by david393071 September 20, 2009 3:24 PM EDT. (CBS News -- Evening News)
Can our fragile National Health Insurance scheme be able to confront a rising tide of chronic diseases that are linked to unhealthy diet such the food we consume each day in the West. It is a fact; the chronic diseases we experience in the Western world are undoubtedly linked to poor diet that we consume wantonly. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
JapanUniversal coverage under a mandatory employer-employee based national health insurance system. MexicoMixture of private and public systems, with public care subsidized by the government. (MSNBC -- Health)
The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) and the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) are reeling under a shocking GH115 million arrears left behind by the erstwhile New Patriotic Party government (NPP) ... 60 to the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) ... As the Acting Chief Executive puts it, 'the precarious state of the National Health Insurance Fund, and the impending threat this poses to the NHIS as a programme to secure affordable healthcare services to residents of... (Ghana Web, Ghana)
We believe it is in the best interests of the country to have a MANDATORY NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM where all citizens regardless of income must belong and each pay the same percentage costs. As far as auto insurance goes we believe in NO FAULT INSURANCE. Under the social contract, each citizen should be entitled to BASIC HOUSING, BASIC CLOTHING,FOOD, HEALTH CARE, AND SECURITY. If one can afford housing, food and clothing one should pay for it, if not it should be a given. (Longview Daily News, WA)
"Gise is a member of Physicians for a National Health Program, a group that advocates the creation of a single-payer national health insurance program. Two of the study co-authors, Dr. Steffie Woolhandler and Dr. David Himmelstein, are co-founders of the 17,000-doctor group. The lead author of the work was Dr. Andrew Wilmer, who was at Harvard Medical School when the study was done.A single-payer plan is not among the ideas being considered on Capitol Hill as health care reform is... (Honolulu Advertiser)
Past Month's Most Commented Stories. Saturday, September 19, 2009 12:56 AM PDT. (Longview Daily News, WA)
She lived in Edinburgh, where British national health insurance made this possible. I thought of my mother when Pope John Paul II died and gave the world a very public example of the grace of a good death he too had advanced Parkinson s disease, and sought at the end to die in his own bed without unusual medical intervention. (Holliston Tab, MA)
How can anyone on Medicare, operated and funded by the federal government, believe the Constitution prohibits a national health insurance program. Obviously, Medicare is national health insurance ... Others can suffer, so long as you do not touch my national health insurance program. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Having a national health insurance would not bankrupt our country, but not having one most certainly will. We cannot rely on canisters located on grocery-store countertops to pay for medical treatments. (Anchorage Daily News)
He pointed out that the introduction of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) had broken the claim of monopoly public healthcare had over the private sector in treatment of diseases. "The poor and the rich can equally access healthcare in the public or private health facilities", he said, adding that what would now make the difference was the quality of service that would be provided. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Republicans apparently don't know that it was their beloved President Theodore Roosevelt who in 1912 proposed national health insurance for all ... As a foreign correspondent, I lived in Britain, Germany, Israel, and the Soviet Union and did not discover any sapping of a nation's vital essences because the public enjoyed publicly funded national health insurance ... As a US citizen who lived more than two decades abroad, I found socialized national health insurance programs are often more... (Christian Science Monitor)
Answering questions on why the delay in the production of the National Health Insurance cards, the District Manager, Mr David Samari said the processing of the cards had been centralized in Accra and explained that although the cards delayed, the district office had improvised a temporal one for people to access health care when they were sick. Mr Samari said a total amount of GHC3,055,036. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
In 8 years the NPP government more than halved inflation and interest rates, left office with Ghana having about $2 Billion in Foreign Reserves, stabilized the currency at an unprecedented level, resurrected Ghana's universal education system and improved education with the school feeding program and the 'capitation" program. He further mentioned that instead of the then existing cash and carry policy under the P/NDC governments, the NPP introduced the National Health Insurance Scheme, including... (Ghana Web, Ghana)
What must also be brought to light is that, in nine months of NDC rule, some workers of the National youth in Employment Programme(NYEP),The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) and some security officials have being sacked from work. It must be explained that, some other persons were sacked at the ministry of foreign affairs. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
The key drivers of growth include government investment into public hospital revitalisation and the National Health Insurance Scheme, which has made healthcare goods and services more affordable to Ghanaians. If you are interested in a virtual brochure, which provides a brief synopsis of the research and a table of contents, then send an e-mail to Patrick Cairns, Corporate Communications, at " target="_new">, with your full name, company name, title, telephone number, company e-mail address,... (PR Newswire)
Lt. Col. Kamanta said accessing the service of the facility was covered under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHRS). Lt. Col. Kamanta said the result of the MRI was normally captured on films or on CDs with about 30 slides on one image. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Sunyani, Sept. 14, GNA - The Ghana Traditional Caterers Association is negotiating with relevant authorities so that the medical screening of its members and other food vendors is covered by the National Health Insurance Scheme. Mr. Caseley Hayford, the Brong-Ahafo Regional President of the association who spoke at a workshop in Sunyani, said the negotiations were at an advanced stage and urged members and other food vendors to take advantage and register with the scheme. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
The United States is the only major democracy without a national health insurance system, with some 47 million citizens lacking coverage. Many Americans depend on workplace-linked health insurance partially subsidized by their employers, which they can lose if they lose their job. (MSNBC -- Politics)
The National Health Insurance premiums for 1 ... 9 million) per year, the Bureau of National Health Insurance (BNHI) said. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Canada's national health insurance program has become the bugaboo invoked by opponents of American health care reform, with one scary commercial featuring a Canadian woman who says she was told to wait for life-saving treatment for a brain tumor. (Canadian officials say she had a cyst that was not life-threatening and that she was scheduled for surgery in plenty of time to avoid complications. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Accra, Sept. 11, GNA - The National Health Insurance Council (NHIC) is to release the reviewed essential drug list October next month to meet the basic health care delivery of the average Ghanaian, Mr Sylvester A. Mensah, Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) said in Accra on Friday ... Mr Mensah was addressing a review meeting of the Greater Accra National Health Insurance Scheme service providers. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
It is difficult to believe that card bearing citizens under the National Health Insurance Scheme are being turned away from some public health delivery facilities especially in the Volta Regional capital, Ho if the newspaper publication of the Ghanaian Times, Thursday September 3, 2009 is anything factual. Equally disturbing is news that there is a selective treatment of patients under the National Health Insurance scheme citing unpaid claims by the Health Insurance Authority, over the past 12... (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Any national health insurance system put in place today is going to be swamped if we do not close the borders and halt immigration. Obama and the Democrats, who are almost all pro-abortion and pro-amnesty, are assuring us their health care bill will not advance these goals to which they are committed by ideology. (Human Events Online)
Mrs. Otuo-Acheampong made the call in Kumasi at a day's workshop on Strengthening Advocacy efforts on Reproductive Health supplies in the National Health Insurance Scheme budget line. It was organised by the Environmental Protection Association of Ghana (EPAG) in collaboration with the Plant Parenthood Association of Ghana. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Builsa District have suggested to the National Health Insurance Authority to. assign every subscriber of the scheme to one health facility to receive. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
But he ignores the fact that American patients already pay more out of pocket than residents of countries with national health insurance programs, and we spend much more than any of them. As another health economist, Mark Pauly, wrote years ago, patients go to doctors for one thing, their expertise. (Boston Globe -- Editorial)
National health insurance and medical affairs, the judicial system, and national defense and security are also showing signs of a looming disaster. With the Cabinet change, we need a national leader with a sense of mission and who is willing to take responsibility. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
But alas, this thing has been over with the advent of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in Ghana. So therefore, what consultation is being talked about here. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
From the incidence that happened in Tamale when suspected NDC thugs seized the National Health Insurance Scheme and National Youth Employment Programme offices to similar situations in Asuogyaman, Eastern Region, Cape Coast and Ashaiman should raise a serious concern before matters become inexorable. These are, indeed, an outstanding politics that is bound to plunge the country into further disasters. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
realitybites wrote on Sep 7, 2009 9:06 PM:" Oh, excuse me, Camp. Let's change it to Union Day, or better yet, call a spade a space and make it May Day as it most closely emulates that socialist celebration. No, Camp, I was merely making the point that the majority of hard working blue collars is non-union and they like it that way. Remember, its unions that have shut down numerous American companies and made so much of American (and European) manufacturing unable to compete with the rest of... (Lihue Garden Island, HA)
This is still cheaper than several European countries where they use the tax to pay for totally free national health insurance. No problem. (Human Events Online)
The National Professional Traditional Healers' Association would like to participate in the proposed National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme, and it hoped the mooted Traditional Healers' Council would engage in the NHI talks on its behalf, Sazi Mhlongo, the deputy chairman of the association, said last week. The NHI seeks to provide universal cover for all citizens in the country. (Business Report, South Africa)
Attorney Vince Brown said the group is concerned the state may be illegally discouraging needy families from applying not only for welfare, but federal entitlement programs such as food stamps and Medicaid, the national health insurance program for the poor. "We are really trying to balance the budget on the backs of the people who are most vulnerable," Brown said. (Yahoo News -- Welfare Reform)
Hirono for her support of single-payer national health insurance and the HR 676 amendment, as she affirmed at the AARP forum in Kapa a on Wednesday. Single-payer national health insurance is a system in which a single public or quasi-public agency organizes health financing, but delivery of care remains largely private. (Lihue Garden Island, HA)
Dr. Dedzo said this at the 23rd Annual General Conference of Public Health Nurses Group (PUBHENG) held in Ho on the theme: "Quality Community Service Delivery, the Public Health Nurse as a Pacesetter." He said healthy living was inextricably linked to poverty reduction, adding that an effective public health system would reduce the burden on the health facilities and the National Health Insurance Scheme. Dr. Dedzo advised the nurses to respect the rights of patients and give care with smiles and... (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Bring on National Health Insurance which is in the best interest of the USA. Substantial reasons why Medicare Insurance for All should be the choice for all in America:* Makes the USA more attractive to NEW industry thus jobs thus new wealth for the USA. *Eliminates Politicians as shareholders:ht tp://www. washingtonpost. (TheHill.com)
Members of the Swampscott Democratic Town Committee were among those in attendance at a recent vigil in Salem to show support for national health insurance reform. Speakers at the vigil sponsored by described the current health system and its failure to provide both the quality and quantity of services corresponding to its high cost, they said. (Swampscott Reporter, MA)
INSURANCE SUBSIDIES: The city government said it would actually lose money in the land exchange deal to pay off part of its National Health Insurance debts By Mo Yan-chih STAFF REPORTER Saturday, Sep 05, 2009, Page 2. The Taipei City Government said yesterday it was determined to pay back its National Health Insurance subsidy debts within five years, dismissing allegations that it recently tried to take back several plots of land seized by the central government by exchanging them for 13 plots... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Mr Omari said the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) released GH 724,070. 29 to the Scheme, which enabled it to settle all its debts to its service providers. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
The national health insurance (NHI) is a good idea in principle, but not if it destroys what's good about our health system along with the bad ... But it has yet to release a substantive policy document on the subject, presumably because the subcommittee set up by the ruling party to look into the matter still hasn't figured out exactly what national health insurance will involve, never mind what it will cost taxpayers. (allAfrica.com)
Critics of President Obama s plan for national health insurance have used the British system as a negative example, saying it provided rationed care in which bureaucrats could make life-and-death decisions. Most Britons strongly support the NHS, which provides free medical care for all. (Boston Globe)
She said that the milk from her cow was an important source of nutrition and income for her family, adding that the income from the surplus production had enabled her to send her children to school, subscribe to the national health insurance scheme, upgrade her house and improve her living conditions. In addition, she is using the manure produced by the cow to increase her crop production. (allAfrica.com)
Britain's system has been at the center of debate at home and in the United States, where opponents of health care reform have used it to attack President Barack Obama's plan for national health insurance. U.S. conservatives have used the British system as a negative example, saying it provides rationed careand allows bureaucrats rather than doctors to make life-and-death decisions. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Britain's system has been at the center of debate at home and in the United States, where opponents of health care reform have used it to attack President Barack Obama's plan for national health insurance. U.S. conservatives have used the British system as a negative example, saying it provides rationed care and allows bureaucrats rather than doctors to make life-and-death decisions. (MSNBC -- Health)
Touching on education, the report recommended that higher enrollment rates be matched by increased attention to quality issues, while in the delivery of health services, efforts are required to ensure broad coverage under the National Health Insurance Fund, especially for the elderly, handicapped and the indigent. It said achieving the latter objective will require sustained efforts in issuing identification cards for those in the exempt categories. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Germany has had national health insurance since 1883. Okay, they went through a despotic phase, but it wasn't caused by health care, and they're a democratic country now. (CBS News)
Theodore Roosevelt, citing limited access to health care and rising costs, made a national health insurance a platform plank in his 1912 presidential campaign. Fear of national health plans is distinctly American. (Montana Standard, MT)
The organization is trying to ensure that reproductive health care is covered by any national health insurance plan. According to 17-year-old Angela Matthews, who was at the Hudson rally, she and many of her friends and family consider Planned Parenthood their primary health care provider and said that the sliding price scale there was key. (Hudson Register Star, NY)
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