TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Two doctors who perform abortions in Kansas filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday to block a new licensing law and regulations that abortion rights advocates fear will make Kansas the first state in the country without an abortion provider. Dr. Herbert Hodes and his daughter, Dr. Traci Nauser, argue that the new [...]
Tag: Health care
June 29, 2011
June 29, 2011
June 28, 2011
Recession Forces States to Rethink Tourism Funding
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Like a business trying to sell a product, Washington state has for years attracted visitors by promoting stunning images of some of the nation’s most majestic scenery — from the snowcapped peaks of the Cascades to the rainforests and thundering waterfalls of the Olympic Peninsula. That marketing is now coming to [...]
June 23, 2011
June 23, 2011
June 19, 2011
June 18, 2011
Obama Admin to End Health Care Waivers
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration says it will end a controversial health care waiver program in September. Officials announced Friday that all applications for new waivers and renewals of existing ones have to be in by Sept. 22. That would remove a potential political distraction in the 2012 elections. The waivers deal with a [...]
June 17, 2011
June 10, 2011
WashPost Fact Check: Tune Out Political Medicare Ads
Perhaps voters should just make a refrigerator run when political ads involving Medicare appear on their televisions. Both parties are waging war with “half-truths, misleading claims and outright lies,” The Washington Post concluded in a fact check of competing ads. The Post derideded ads from both the Democrats and Republicans four Pinocchios for the whoppers [...]
June 3, 2011
May 31, 2011
CBS: Vermont Enacts Single Payer Health Law
This past week, Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin signed a bill creating a single-payer healthcare plan for the Green Mountain State – making it the first state to do so, according to a report by CBS News. At the signing ceremony, Shumlin announced: “This law recognizes an economic and fiscal imperative – that we must control [...]
May 30, 2011
VA Infection Issues Lead to 13,000 Veterans’ Tests
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — About 13,000 veterans have been warned over the past two years that they should be tested for possible exposure to dangerous germs from poor infection control practices at hospitals run by the Department of Veterans Affairs in Ohio, Florida, Georgia, Missouri and Tennessee. So far, there have been eight confirmed HIV-positive [...]
April 8, 2011
April 6, 2011
Top Five Fails By Obama…
From healthcare to closing Guantanamo to defending labor rights, US President Barack Obama promised many things, but has failed to deliver. Brought into office on a cloud of hope, change and positive thinking, voters lifted Obama into the White House with high expectations. Two years into his presidency and as he enters his reelection campaign [...]