The relative health of people in different countries, races, social classes, etc.; factors in determining availability of services, role of U.S. government in equitable distribution in the country and the world.
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9/8/08
Inauguration of "telepharmacy" operations in local stores in North Dakota is improving rural peoples' accessibility to pharmacy services and prescription drugs obtained locally.
http://www.grandforksherald.com/articles/index.cfm?id=86122§ion=News&freebie_check&CFID=51343355&CFTOKEN=46326258&jsessionid=883054533b4386d5e324
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5/17/08
System of premium emergency medical care for those who can afford it is being launched in a Copenhagen suburb to the protests of critics, who claim it will create discrimination in the national health care system.
http://www.cphpost.dk/get/107252.html
6/8/07
Health ministry in U.K. admits that one in eight patients have to wait a year for medical treatment, contradicting a government promise of service within 18 weeks.
http://society.guardian.co.uk/health/story/0,,2098276,00.html
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National Coalition on Health Care: http://www.nchc.org/
American Academy of Family Physicans: http://www.aafp.org/
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9/8/08
Inauguration of "telepharmacy" operations in local stores in North Dakota is improving rural peoples' accessibility to pharmacy services and prescription drugs obtained locally.
http://www.grandforksherald.com/articles/index.cfm?id=86122§ion=News&freebie_check&CFID=51343355&CFTOKEN=46326258&jsessionid=883054533b4386d5e324
2/23/08
Shortage of vaccines for childhood diseases is forcing Massachusetts health authorities to limit free vaccinations to younger children only, parents of older kids must pay.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/02/23/states_vaccine_supply_rationed/
1/16/08
Advocates of health care access for poor and elderly are outraged by decision of Franklin County NC health facility to move toward a "richer" location near an adjacent county.
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/health_science/story/883016.html
10/5/07
A glass half-full or half-empty? Gannett News agency's run-down of the state of community health centers in America.
http://hattiesburgamerican.gns.gannettonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070717/CHC/707120301
8/14/07
Competition between Microsoft and Google promises web and medical consumers more control over their own health care plans:The two web giants have launched efforts to computerize medical records and make them more easily accessible to patients as opposed to the doctors and hospitals that treat them.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/technology/14healthnet.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&th&emc=th
7/12/07
Alaskan dental organizations give up on their long-term effort to stop individual therapists from providing dental services in rural areas.
http://www.adn.com/front/story/9125440p-9041670c.html
3/16/06
New study reports medical care in America is equal for all: equally bad, that is: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/15/AR2006031502120.html?referrer=email
2/23/06
Uninsured poor can't get medical care in facilities-strapped New Orleans: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/K/KATRINA_HOSPITALS?SITE=CADIU&SECTION=
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2/12/06
Locally and nationally, VA health care system overloaded by war, aging veteran population and rising health care costs: http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060212/WIRE/202120359/1078
2/2/06
President's Health Care Tax Cut Proposals Are Likely To Weaken Employer-Based Health Insurance, Primarily Benefit High-Income People, And Worsen Deficits
http://www.cbpp.org/1-31-06health.htm
2/1/06
Primary health care about to collapse, physicians warn: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060130/hl_nm/usa_dc
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Gainesville:
4/25/08
Shands Hospital in Gainesville, a "safety net" facility intended to serve medical needs of the relatively poor, is facing a 10% cut in Medicaid re-imbursement as a result of action in Florida legislature.
ttp://www.gainesvillesun.com/article/20080425/NEWS/804250334
Volusia Co.:
1/21/08
Struggle to provide dental services to needy children in Volusia County flounders as a dental clinic closes 4 months after it opened, as the dentist resigns after having been paid $200,000 before he had seen a single patient.
http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Headlines/frtHEAD01012108.htm
Miami:
10/21/07
``Somebody dropped the ball on Liberty City " says a Miami health care advocate, referring to the fact that Jackson Memorial Hospital, having been given $6.7 million by the Florida legislature in the early 1990s to build a state-of-the-art medical clinic in this poor section of Miami, never completed the project, in fact intended to divert the funds to a clinic in a biotech park, a project also abandoned after a Miami Herald expose of corruption in that development. Now the hospital is "quietly" returning the money (with interest) to the state, believed to be the first instance ever of such a return of appropriated money by a public hospital.
http://www.miamiherald.com/457/story/278969.html
Miami:
6/23/07
Miami-Dade County gets a bad report card on health care. Health Care of South Florida issues its grades for health care in the county and grades are generally low, with a flat-out F in the area of access to health insurance.
http://www.miamiherald.com/460/story/148857.html
St. Augustine :
6/2/07
A small town medical clinic in Hastings FL (near St. Augustine) could provide a model for better medical services for the poor in urban settings as well.
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/060207/met_174303581.shtml
Tampa:
2/13/06
Heart disease treatment programs proliferate in Tampa Bay area: http://www.tampatrib.com/MGBJR885MJE.html
Gainesville:
2/12/06
Locally and nationally, VA health care system overloaded by war, aging veteran population and rising health care costs: http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060212/WIRE/202120359/1078
Gainesville:
2/7/06
Director of Alachua County's health care program for working poor to ask for loosed eligibility, boosting current low enrollment: http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060207/LOCAL/202070322/1078/news
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