Employees were evacuated from a building at the JFK Medical Center complex Wednesday morning after a suspicious package was found near an entrance of the facility, police and hospital officials said.
Edison police and the New Jersey State Police responded to the James Street campus to investigate the package, which they ultimately determined was no risk to patients and staff, hospital spokesman Steven Weiss said.
The small wooden box, about the Read the rest of this entry »
Health care reform is still on the agenda this year in Congress, despite the departure of President Barack Obama’s point man on the issue.
Tom Daschle’s withdrawal as Obama’s health czar and nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services is a glitch, not a fatal blow, to the push for comprehensive health care reform, according to most observers.
The chairmen of the two Senate committees with jurisdiction over health care Read the rest of this entry »
President Barack Obama hasn’t yet presented his official health care reform plan to Congress. But already, new health spending is spinning out of control. Obama and congressional Democrats have included more than $150 billion for health care in the $819 billion stimulus package.
Two-thirds of that $150 billion is intended to help states with budget deficits fund Medicaid, the government health insurance plan for the poor. Another $30 billion will Read the rest of this entry »
This is the latest in a series of topical feature packages PRN will carry
as part of its regular Feature News Service. Coming up in 2008 are features
on:
A look at many of the spending programs and tax cuts included in the stimulus legislation approved tonight by Congress.
• $87 billion for Medicaid health care coverage for the poor.
• $19 billion to accelerate the use of health information technology systems.
• $53.6 billion in direct aid to states, including $40.6 billion for local school districts, $5 billion in bonus grants for meeting key education performance measures and Read the rest of this entry »
care in the United States. Now each party is interpreting the package differently.
Congress passed the stimulus package on February 13, 2009, with only the support of three Republicans and a majority of Democrats. To be spent is:
$1.1 billion on research comparing which treatment work best for a particular disease.
$1 billion for a “preventive and wellness fund.”
$300 million for additional immunizations.
$17 billion in higher Medicare and Read the rest of this entry »
The government unveiled a new economic stimulus package on Thursday whose main objective is to hasten a recovery from an economic crisis that could require three years to cure completely. Prime Minister Taro Aso also declared that he would raise the consumption tax after the economy rebounds and submit the new stimulus package to the Diet before the end of the year. There is no doubt that package goes a lot further than any previous package. He has Read the rest of this entry »
North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System is delaying the construction of a $132-million pavilion at Schneider Children’s Hospital. It lost $180 million to $200 million in investments last year, and the pavilion’s major donor, the Blumenfeld family of Old Westbury, was burned by
’s alleged financial scam. Catholic Health Services lost $44 million in investments.
Nassau Healthcare Corp., facing $22 million in state cuts, is postponing a $55-million Read the rest of this entry »
Health care reform is still on the agenda this year in Congress, despite the departure of President Barack Obama’s point man on the issue.
Tom Daschle’s withdrawal as Obama’s health czar and nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services is a glitch, not a fatal blow, to the push for comprehensive health care reform, according to most observers.
The chairmen of the two Senate committees with jurisdiction over health care Read the rest of this entry »
Health care reform is still on the agenda this year in Congress, despite the departure of President Barack Obama’s point man on the issue.
Tom Daschle’s withdrawal as Obama’s health czar and nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services is a glitch, not a fatal blow, to the push for comprehensive health care reform, according to most observers.
The chairmen of the two Senate committees with jurisdiction over health care Read the rest of this entry »