PORTSMOUTH, N.H. – President Obama traveled to a town hall meeting in a high school gymnasium here yesterday to counter what he called “wild misrepresentations’’ about his proposed healthcare overhaul… Read more »
Year: 2009
At N.H. forum, Obama hits back at ‘wild’ criticism of health bill (MS)
Health fund for jobless runs low (MS)
A unique state program that helps pay most health insurance costs for 27,000 unemployed Massachusetts residents is on the cusp of going broke, setting off a debate between healthcare advocates… Read more »
CDC Novel H1N1 Vaccination Planning Q&A Aug 11 2009
See the link to the CDC Q&A on H1N1 vaccination planning below:
State to designate providers to give H1N1 vaccines Aug 11 09
States to designate providers to give H1N1 vaccines Robert Roos News Editor Aug 10, 2009 (CIDRAP News) – State health departments will decide which providers will administer the pandemic H1N1… Read more »
Technology Push in Hospitals Puts Stress on Workers (Labor Notes) (DS)
When it opens this fall, the gleaming corridors of the Shands Healthcare cancer center in Gainesville, Florida, will contain far more than meets the eye. Invisible veins of wireless and… Read more »
Region One Members Continue to Fight for Single Payer
Within health care hides massive, avoidable death toll (DS)
By CATHLEEN F. CROWLEY and ERIC NALDER HEARST NEWSPAPERS Aug. 7, 2009, 5:22PM Richard Flagg drowned in his own blood. Stanley Stinnett choked on his own vomit. Both were victims… Read more »
Foes’ decibels replace debate on healthcare (MS)
MARDELA SPRINGS, Md. – Repeated heckling and shouted interruptions – “Answer the question!’’ “We’re your employers!’’ “You don’t get it!’’ – overtook a town hall-style meeting in rural Maryland this… Read more »
The state’s fraying health safety net (MS)
AS NATIONAL policy makers fashion a healthcare bill modeled in no small part on Massachusetts’ landmark health reform law, they need to address a major flaw that has emerged here…. Read more »
DPH: Seasonal flu standing orders August 10 2009
Click on the links below to read the Model standing orders:
