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Health reform’s taxation feared 1 hr ago | Add a comment Schoolteacher Kinzi Blair makes only $46,000 a year, but she has what many would consider a "Cadillac” health plan, now targeted for a big tax increase by reformers. She has $10 copays...
Senate vote doesn’t alter health care bill’s death wish 1 hr ago | Add a comment THE U.S. Senate’s vote Saturday on health care was a victory for Democrats and President Barack Obama. Obamacare lives — for now. Unfortunately for the White House and Majority Leader...
No 'lifetime' guarantee from Medicare 19 hr ago | Add a comment Q: Over the past three years, my mother has been in and out of the hospital for the treatment of a series of strokes, and then is sent to a nursing home for rehabilitation. In each instance, her...
Mammogram guidelines spark debate Sun, Nov 22, 2009 | Add a comment WASHINGTON — Lawmakers broke along party lines on a new aspect of the health care debate Sunday as a former National Institutes of Health chief urged women to ignore guidelines that delay the...
Sen. Tom Coburn will post bill views on Web Sun, Nov 22, 2009 | Add a comment WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans want to spend weeks debating the health care bill, but they didn’t want to spend days next week having the 2,074-page document read aloud, as U.S. Sen....
Mixed message: Breast cancer flap bad for White House Yesterday | Add a comment The Obama administration’s ping-pong last week on breast cancer screening got lots of folks’ attention — as well it should for what it suggests about the brave new world of health...
Health plan: budget buster in the making Sun, Nov 22, 2009 | Add a comment WASHINGTON — It’s simply not true that America is ambivalent about everything when it comes to the Obama health plan. The day after the Congressional Budget Office gave its qualified...
Letters to the editor: Monday, November 23, 2009 Sun, Nov 22, 2009 | Add a comment Bold visionNearly two decades ago, I served then Oklahoma City Mayor Ron Norick as assistant to the mayor. Frankly, things weren’t all that great in our city, but Norick had a bold vision for...
4 pilgrims die of H1N1 before reaching Mecca Sat, Nov 21, 2009 | Add a comment RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi health officials announced the first deaths from swine flu, or H1N1, during this year’s annual pilgrimage to Mecca, as four pilgrims succumbed to the...
Health Professionals Program helps troubled Oklahoma health care workers Sun, Nov 22, 2009 | Add a comment Just like everyone else, doctors need help when an addiction takes control of their lives, says Dr. Merlin Kilbury, who is associate director of a statewide program that provides that assistance....
Oklahoma sets goal to get workers’ heart rates up Sat, Nov 21, 2009 | Add a comment Efforts to get Oklahomans more physically fit and interested in participating in an American Heart Association walking event next spring started last Wednesday at the Central Oklahoma Start!...
Oklahoma’s health insurance costs rise faster than nation Sun, Nov 22, 2009 | Add a comment Health insurance costs and deductibles are increasing at a faster rate in Oklahoma than the rest of the country, and the state’s unhealthy lifestyles might be to blame. According to the...
Health care bill clears first Senate hurdle Sat, Nov 21, 2009 | Add a comment WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats have hit the magic number of 60 to move ahead on historic health care legislation. Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln said on the Senate floor that she will vote with...
Edmond parks board OKs smoking ban plan Fri, Nov 20, 2009 | Add a comment EDMOND — The Edmond Parks and Recreation Advisory Board unanimously approved a proposed ordinance banning smoking in the city’s parks and playgrounds. The ordinance now goes to the city...
Tamiflu-resistant swine flu cluster reported in North Carolina Fri, Nov 20, 2009 | Add a comment ATLANTA (AP) — Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, health officials said Friday. The cases reported at Duke...
OSU event illustrates smoking's deadly toll Fri, Nov 20, 2009 | Add a comment STILLWATER — Sixteen mannequins dotted the lawn near Oklahoma State University’s student union, representing the number of people in the state who die each day from tobacco-related...
Health plans call for injection of cash from procedure tax Fri, Nov 20, 2009 | Add a comment WASHINGTON — They call it the "Botax.” The White House and Senate Democrats have turned to a proposal to tax breast implants, tummy tucks, wrinkle-smoothing injections and other...
Senate bill masks threats to economy, taxpayers Fri, Nov 20, 2009 | Add a comment MAJORITY Leader Harry Reid unveiled Senate Democrats’ health care fig leaf Wednesday, and what a fig leaf it is — totaling $848 billion. We call Reid’s merging of competing Senate...
Republicans blast 'bait and switch' health bill Thu, Nov 19, 2009 | Add a comment WASHINGTON -- Digging in for a long struggle, Republican senators and governors assailed the Democrats' newly minted health care legislation Thursday as a collection of tax increases, Medicare cuts...
GOP Senator Tom Coburn backs off threat to read health bill Thu, Nov 19, 2009 | Add a comment WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Tom Coburn is backing off his threat to require that the Senate read the 2,074-page health care bill because some GOP colleagues aren't supporting the effort. The...
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