News For Your Health - July 8th, 2009
Your health and wellbeing are important to us at William J. King & Associates. We have collected several articles that pertain to the health insurance industry which we thought you might find interesting.
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Small Businesses Wary of Health Care Legislation
John Fritze , USA Today
Monday, June 29, 2009
WASHINGTON - Like many small business owners, Pedro Alfonso struggles to maintain the health insurance he provides to his 85 employees - an effort he says is worth it partly because "it's the
right thing to do."
But rising costs and a weak economy have left workers at Alfonso's Washington telecommunications firm, Dynamic Concepts Inc., with higher out-of-pocket health costs. The company once paid 70% of health insurance premiums but now, he said, it can afford only half.
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Europe's Free Health Care Has a Hefty Price Tag
By Maria Cheng, USA Today
Monday, July 06, 2009
As President Obama pushes to overhaul the American health care system, the role of government is at the heart of the debate. In Europe, it's a given.
The concept of free, state-run health care has been enshrined in Europe for generations. Europeans have built health systems so inclusive that even illegal immigrants are entitled to free treatment beyond just emergency care. Europeans have some of the world's best hospitals, and have made great strides in fighting problems like obesity and heart disease.
But the system is far from perfect.
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Reality Check: Canada's Government Health Care System
By Dana Bash and Lesa Jansen, CNN
Monday, July 06, 2009
KINGSTON, Ontario (CNN) -- For Shona Holmes, simple pleasures such as playing with her dog or walking in her plush garden are a gift.
After suffering from crushing headaches and vision problems, she was diagnosed with a brain tumor four years ago. She was told if it wasn't removed, she could go blind or even die.
"They said to me that you had a brain tumor and it was pressing on your optic chasm and that it needed to come out immediately," Holmes said.
Holmes is Canadian, but the "they" she refers to are doctors at the Mayo Clinic in the United States, where she turned after specialists in her own government-run health care system would not see her fast enough.
"My family doctor at that time tried to get me in to see an endocrinologist and a neurologist," Holmes recalled. "It was going to be four months for one specialist and six months for the other."
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Medicare's Mixed Legacy
By Reed Abelson, The New York Times
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Should the government get in the health insurance business?
The question will be debated fiercely in coming months as President Obama and some Democratic lawmakers push for the creation of a government-run plan to compete with private insurance companies for the business of nearly 50 million people who are without insurance.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/weekinreview/05abelson.html?emc=eta1
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