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Health Highlights: Jan. 8, 2009
Title: Health Highlights: Jan. 8, 2009 Category: Health News Created: 1/9/2009 2:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 1/9/2009

Daschle, With Congress, To Overhaul Health Care
The Senate kicked off the confirmation process for President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet picks Thursday. First to go before a Senate committee was former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle. He's been tapped to head the Department of Health and Human Services. Daschle says his first and largest task will be to work with Congress to overhaul the nation's health care system.

Bradley says health not an issue in '09
Bradley says health not an issue in '09

Daschle: Health care flaws threaten economic security
President-elect Barack Obama's point man on health care reform wasted no time in portraying a sense of urgency on the issue at his confirmation hearing Thursday.

Westfield pulls plans to discuss free health clinic
Westfield City Council today pulled from next week's meeting agenda the discussion of plans to set up a free health clinic in a city-owned building.

Health Insurance CEOs Get Big Raises
Team 5 Investigates Janet Wu has learned that CEOs of the state's three biggest health insurance non-profit companies have all received double-digit raises in recent years, while patients face eight to twelve percent annual premium increases.

Laid-off workers can't afford to continue health insurance
Most laid-off workers can't afford to keep health insurance, according to a study from a Washington consumer group released Friday morning.

County prepares for health assessment
The Rockingham County Healthy Carolinians Partnership and the Rockingham County Department of Public Health will host a public forum to discuss the 2008 community health assessment.

Children in Gaza facing health epidemics
Polio, measles, hepatitis - as well as Israeli bullets - are threatening Palestinian children in Gaza because doctors have stopped vaccinating kids, health officials said Friday.

Why porridge could help improve the health of diabetics
Why porridge could help improve the health of diabetics

Health Care's Catch 22 for Laid Off Workers
Health care coverage is available for laid off workers, but it?s too expensive.

Pet health insurance can help save cash, but plans have restrictions, require careful research
NEW YORK - It's a common remark for those devoted to their pooches: "I spend more on my dog's health care than I do on my own!" Dog owners can expect to pay a few hundred dollars a year for routine veterinary care, but a serious illness could send the bills soaring into the thousands.

City health chief's food fight targets meat
He encourages vegetarian diet for January Chicago health commissioner Dr. Terry Mason has a message for Chicagoans who enjoy devouring meat in all its fat-dripping, artery-clogging glory: Don't do it.

Unemployed squeezed on health insurance
Newly unemployed Americans will have to spend about 30 percent of their jobless benefits on average to pay for health insurance through their former employer, according to a new report.

Public Mental Health Could Go Private
News that mental health care may be privatized is putting some mental health advocates up in arms. A commission studying mental health services in Georgia says officials need to confront a handful of questions before launching efforts to privatize mental health services across the state.

Daschle Pledges Bipartisan Effort in Bid to Enact Health Care Reform
During a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday, Health and Human Services nominee Tom Daschle pledged to lead bipartisan health care reform, based on evidence and not ideology. Experts discuss the challenges he will face if confirmed.

Jobless Utahns priced out of health care
With the cost of continuing health care coverage amounting to three-fourths of unemployment insurance benefits, most newly unemployed Utahns are also newly uninsured, or are about to be.

USF offering health degree on SR campus
Educators at the University of San Francisco say they're trying to fill a community need with a new bachelor's degree program that will help advance and keep health professionals in Sonoma County.