Wednesday, February 21, 2007
U.S. President George Bush visited a hospital in Chattanooga, Tenn., last week to push his planned package of reforms for more reasonable health insurance.
Bush also held closed-door talks with state officials on his program, which calls for tax reforms to make personal health insurance more reasonable and to level the playing field so those who purchase health insurance on their own get the same tax benefits as those who get health insurance through their jobs.
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Thursday, February 15, 2007
New Zealanders are changing from public sector health insurance to private in record numbers, putting a sum on getting the hospital care they require when they want it, says TVNZ.
Consider:
Consider:
Latest data from the Health Funds Association shows the sum of people covered by health insurance augmented by 15,500 last year.
Overall, approximately 1.4 million people are by now covered in New Zealand.
Overall, approximately 1.4 million people are by now covered in New Zealand.
The government is featuring the gigantic increase to surgery cuts; the party's health spokesman Tony Ryall thinks people are reacting to the dumping of thousands of patients from non-urgent surgery waiting lists.
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