Want to talk about the obesity epidemic that doesn’t get as much press as Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s supersized soft drink ban? It’s the bloated waistline, and bottom line, of the health care industry itself. Spending on health care now running at roughly $3 trillion per year — is on its way to 34 percent of GDP by 2040, according to the federal government. Continue reading
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Bill Maher Bashes Rand Paul & Paul Ryan for ‘Ruining Libertarianism ’
Maher lib HBO Bill Maher on Friday trashed the current wave of libertarianism, singling out Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and Wisconsin Rep. Continue reading
Talented Freedom High girls chase hoops title
By BEN HENDERSON | Special correspondent Published: January 23, 2013 Updated: January 23, 2013 – 12:00 AM It has been quite the season for the Freedom girls basketball team. After going 18-11 last season, the Patriots are 19-3 with two games left in the regular season before the district tournament next week. Head coach Laurie Pacholke, in her fourth season as head coach, has a senior laden squad, with six seniors led by Georgetown University commit Faith Woodard. Continue reading
Voters Voices: Kentuckians, like candidates, grapple with health care issues
O-ba-ma-care those four syllables form a fighting word during this presidential campaign. Some 42 percent of Kentuckians say the future of the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) is one of their top two issues in the presidential election, according to a poll by the non-profit Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky Continue reading
Pierson scores 17 as Liberty cruise past Mercury
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New York jumped out to a big lead and coasted to a needed win against the injury-plagued Phoenix Mercury. The Liberty were also able to rest their starters and give the reserves some valuable playing time Continue reading
Liberty rip Mercury, move into playoff spot
The Liberty jumped out to a big lead and coasted to a needed win against the injury-plagued Phoenix Mercury on Wednesday night. The Liberty were also able to rest their starters and give the reserves some valuable playing time. Plenette Pierson scored 17 points on 8-for-13 shooting to lead a balanced attack as the Liberty beat the Mercury 87-59 Continue reading
Poll: Economy, health care top issues in 3 battleground states
(CBS News) A majority of voters in the crucial battleground states of Florida, Wisconsin and Ohio say the economy and health care are “extremely important” issues with regard to how they will cast their votes this fall, according to a new Quinnipiac University/CBS News/New York Times poll. Continue reading
Hospitals for Poor May Struggle Further Under Health Care Reform
By Randy Dotinga HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, July 17 (HealthDay News) — A new study finds that so-called “safety-net” hospitals that serve the poor do a worse job overall than other hospitals, a potentially big problem as health care reform boosts the number of people who have insurance and more choice about where they can go for care. Medicare used to give these hospitals extra payments for taking care of poor people Continue reading
Has the Health Care Ruling Upped the Ante for Election Contenders?
JUDY WOODRUFF: Now to American politics. Ray Suarez has two different takes on what yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling on health care policy will mean in the presidential contest. Continue reading
Libertarian weekend In Reno and Las Vegas, a third way advances.
Keegan Steele adds more stock to a sales rack of Romney buttons at the Nevada Republican Convention. His brother Collin also worked the booth. Continue reading
Health research: Cure for economy?
By Ben Sutherly The Columbus Dispatch Monday May 7, 2012 5:23 AM Dr. Michael Grever, chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at Ohio State University, gives a tour of the cancer research laboratories on the eighth floor of the Biomedical Research Tower at OSU. Ohios health-care sector increasingly sees medical research as a way to help heal not only patients but the states economy Continue reading