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Families Struggle With Health-Care Plans

Health care is a major issue for families today. Costs are rising for doctors' visits and treatments, and for insurance. "For insured people, payments have gone up and even more than that, people are paying more of their premiums," says Sherry Glied, chairman of the department of health policy and management at Columbia University.

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Rx for healthcare

Amid concern over steeply rising health-care costs, the top-tier Democratic presidential candidates are offering far-reaching proposals for the uninsured but stopping short of the system-wide overhaul that former President Bill Clinton sought a decade ago. Shortly after Clinton took office in 1993, he promised health insurance for millions of Americans who had no coverage. But before long, the plan was a shambles, derailed by concerns that it would cost too much and create a huge new bureaucracy

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Area women especially lack health care

Standing outside the clinic at the Community Family Center in Texas City last week, Teresa Morgan’s jacket pockets were stuffed with medical papers and documents — her mind racing through the numbers.

“They asked me for money, and I said ‘I am sorry I don’t have it,’” said the 45-year-old, who came to the clinic for stomach pains. “Usually when I get sick, I go to Mainland (Medical Center), and I owe them beau coups of money already.”

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Politics blamed for impeding health care

Health insurance for all Americans is again likely to become a presidential campaign issue, a problem that all candidates will be called on to address and an issue they'll be measured on later.

Pollsters who spoke at the National Health Policy Conference here Thursday said health care lags only the war and the economy in voter interest. Finally, it seems, the uninsured have arrived.

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Bush continues promoting election-year health care agenda

President Bush on Wednesday promoted his election-year plans to address rising health care costs, returning for the third time in a week to an issue that voters increasingly cite as a top concern.

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Bush, Daschle address health care in radio messages

President Bush, who has made health care a top item in his election-year agenda, used his weekly radio address Saturday to promote his plan to address rising medical costs and the growing ranks of the uninsured.

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Report Recommends Guaranteed Health Care Coverage

The United States must find a way to provide health care coverage to all Americans by the year 2010, the National Academy of Sciences recommended today.

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Heal Health Care System? Start Anew

Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, 52, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and an internist at Cambridge Hospital, wants to change the health care system. Soon, and not in the way Congress just did.

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