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Why we choose health insurance We all tend to buy health insurance for the same reasons. We want to bypass the NHS waiting lists and receive treatment when we need it. Going into hospital is a stressful occasion and as a patient you want to be as comfortable as possible, private health cover will often [...]

Few decisions are more personal — involving both health and death — than those embodied in an advance health care directive or a living will, or a similar document. Some individuals want their lives prolonged by any means necessary, while others want medical treatments withheld, allowing for a natural death. An advance health care directive [...]

JANUARY 22, 2010 This Week in Health Care Reform After months of public debate and private negotiations, health care reform discussions stalled following Tuesday’s Senate vote in Massachusetts. The Democratic Senate lost its 60th vote supermajority when Republican Scott Brown was elected to the United States Senate in the Massachusetts special election. Health Care Reform [...]

When it comes to the president’s health-care reform, both of Southern Arizona’s congressional representatives are seen as “in play,” uncommitted votes that could go either way. Which is putting both under intense pressure to get off the pointy end of the fencepost they’re perched on, one way or the other. Congressman Raúl Grijalva, who doesn’t [...]

Most Americans are aware that buried somewhere in the 2,000-page health care reform bill are provisions for cutting the already- strapped Medicare program by billions of dollars. Few are aware that the bill also cuts expenditures on county hospitals currently serving the poor. In Chicago, for example, those without health insurance go to the county [...]