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• Friends create medical fund for West Virginia woman with colon cancer

  Published: August 3, 2007, 7:37 am

  Tags: Healthcare Debate, Healthcaredebate

  Filed under: Research, Fundraisers, Politics, Opinion, Daily newsMary Ann Kelly, an employee of a West Virginia hospital who has been battling colon cancer for the past six years, was informed last week that her insurance benefits for the current year have run out. Due to her illness, she is unable to continue working. A medical fund has been

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• Patients on Medicaid or uninsured are more likely to have advanced laryngeal cancer at diagnosis

  Published: August 26, 2007, 12:21 pm

  Tags: Healthcare Debate, Healthcaredebate, Laryngeal Cancer, Laryngealcancer

  Filed under: PoliticsIndividuals with advanced-stage laryngeal cancer at diagnosis were more likely to be uninsured or covered by Medicaid than those with private insurance, according to a study led by Amy Y. Chen, M.D., M.P.H. of Emory and the American Cancer Society, Atlanta. Laryngeal (voice box) cancer is diagnosed in nearly 10,000 men and

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• Number of Americans without health insurance on the rise, according to Census Bureau

  Published: August 31, 2007, 4:26 am

  Tags: Healthcare Debate, Healthcaredebate, Uninsured

  number of children without healthcare coverage also rose to 8.7 million children up from 8 million. The main reason for the increase is that employment-based coverage rates continue to fall. According to the survey, almost 59% of the uninsured worked during 2006. Adults aged 18 to 34 make up the largest portion of the uninsured. I've watched

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• American Cancer Society to focus ads on the uninsured crisis

  Published: September 4, 2007, 1:26 pm

  Tags: Healthcare Debate, Healthcaredebate

  solutions to the U.S. healthcare crisis, but they are intended to raise awareness of this issue as we head into the presidential campaign of 2008.The TV ads for the campaign include one of images of uninsured cancer patients appearing fearful with a narrator saying, "We're making progress, but it's not enough if people don't have access to

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• "We are all uninsured now" says Boston Globe opinion piece

  Published: September 5, 2007, 9:09 am

  Tags: Healthcare Debate, Healthcaredebate

  O'Connor. Her topic was the healthcare crisis and her message was personal,according to Kotlikoff:The gist was that even she lives in constant fear of major uninsured health bills. Not her own -- those of her son. He can't afford insurance because his son -- her grandchild -- has a preexisting condition. As I listened, a light dawned: O'Connor

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• A lack of insurance does not mean a lack of medical care, says Baltimore Sun opinion piece

  Published: September 10, 2007, 9:40 am

  Tags: Healthcare Debate, Healthcaredebate

  Filed under: OpinionAccording to Thomas Sowell, in a recent Baltimore Sun opinion piece, the "biggest of the big lies in the health care hype is that a lack of insurance means a lack of medical care." Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a Stanford think tank. He then mentions how he paid for his own broken arm and jaw when he

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