Health care overhaul taking root in divided nation
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated PressMon Mar 21, 6:40 am EThttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_health_care_at_one_year/print
March 21, 2011
A Panel Decides Washington State’s Health Care Costs
By ANDREW POLLACK
SEATTLE — The health care board was in session, and Deryk Lamb was pleading for them to continue paying for the spinal injections he receives to dull the pain from a workplace injury.
“My life would be a living hell without these injections,” said Mr. Lamb, a 44-year-old carpenter from Lake Stevens, Wash., who was crushed between two trucks in 1996. “I don’t deserve to be sentenced by a committee to a life of agony.”
Mr. Lamb was testifying on Friday before Washington State’s Health Technology Assessment committee. The committee has authority under state law to determine which medical devices and procedures Washington will cover for state employees, Medicaid patients and injured workers, about 750,000 people in all.
Who Will Be Uninsured After Health Insurance Reform?
By: Buettgens M and Hall MA
Publisher: Urban Institute
Published: Mar 10, 2011
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