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Sebelius Backs Public Health Care Plan 3/3/2009 9:48:32 AM ' WASHINGTON -- Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, President Obama's choice to head the Health and Human Services Department, said Tuesday she backs his call for giving Americans the option of government-run health insurance as an alternative to pr' Read More
Insurers Offer to Stop Charging Higher Premiums to the Sick 3/24/2009 9:48:32 AM ' WASHINGTON -- The health insurance industry offered Tuesday for the first time to curb its controversial practice of charging higher premiums to people with a history of medical problems. The offer from America's Health Insurance Plans' Read More
HHS would become federal giant under Senate plan 11/26/2009 9:48:32 AM ' By: Susan Ferrechio Chief Congressional Correspondent - - A quick search of the Senate health bill will bring up "secretary" 2,500 times. That's because Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' Read More
Do You Really Need a PSA Test? 3/30/2009 9:48:32 AM ' Do You Really Need a PSA Test? Many men who've been having PSA tests for prostate cancer must have been surprised to hear last August that men age 75 and older should not be screened. That advice made headlines because it came from the i' Read More
Do You Really Need a PSA Test? (cont.) 3/30/2009 9:48:32 AM ' Surgery to remove the prostate and radiation are standard; but both treatments may produce such complications as impotence and incontinence. Fortunately, newer techniques are less likely to damage the nerves essential for erections and urinary c' Read More

Sebelius Backs Public Health Care Plan

3/3/2009 9:48:32 AM

' WASHINGTON -- Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, President Obama's choice to head the Health and Human Services Department, said Tuesday she backs his call for giving Americans the option of government-run health insurance as an alternative to pr'

Insurers Offer to Stop Charging Higher Premiums to the Sick

3/24/2009 9:48:32 AM

' WASHINGTON -- The health insurance industry offered Tuesday for the first time to curb its controversial practice of charging higher premiums to people with a history of medical problems. The offer from America's Health Insurance Plans'

HHS would become federal giant under Senate plan

11/26/2009 9:48:32 AM

' By: Susan Ferrechio Chief Congressional Correspondent - - A quick search of the Senate health bill will bring up "secretary" 2,500 times. That's because Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius'

Do You Really Need a PSA Test?

3/30/2009 9:48:32 AM

' Do You Really Need a PSA Test? Many men who've been having PSA tests for prostate cancer must have been surprised to hear last August that men age 75 and older should not be screened. That advice made headlines because it came from the i'

Do You Really Need a PSA Test? (cont.)

3/30/2009 9:48:32 AM

' Surgery to remove the prostate and radiation are standard; but both treatments may produce such complications as impotence and incontinence. Fortunately, newer techniques are less likely to damage the nerves essential for erections and urinary c'

Seventy-six percent of individual LTC insurance buyers in 2008 chose coverage for a claim lasting five years or less compared to 71% of buyers in the previous year, according to a study by AALTCI.

California Broker, April, 2009