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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

  Filed under: PoliticsU.S. Census Bureau data released this week shows a rise in the number of American lacking health insurance. The Census Bureau data shows that 47 million people did not have coverage in 2006, up from 44.8 million in 2005. The number of children without healthcare coverage also rose to 8.7 million children up from 8 million. The

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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

  Filed under: Politics, Daily newsThe American Cancer Society plans to dedicate its entire $15 million advertising budget this upcoming year 2008 to the consequences of being uninsured in America, according to an article in The New York Times. According to the article, the group cites frustration at cancer rates not dropping as quickly as hoped and

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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

  Filed under: OpinionA recent opinion piece in the Boston Globe by Laurence J. Kotlikoff relates his experience at a recent conference where the keynote speaker was former Supreme Court justice Sandra Day 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

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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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