Health Care News

GOP Budget Proposal Would Increase Health Cost for Future Retirees

Apr 6, 2011 - 11:05 AM |AP

WASHINGTON -- Most future retirees would pay considerably more for health care under the new budget proposed by House Republicans, according to an analysis by nonpartisan experts for Congress that...

Congress Votes to Repeal Small Part of Health Law

Apr 5, 2011 - 2:12 PM |AP

WASHINGTON -- The Senate has voted to send the White House its first rollback of last year's health care law, a bipartisan repeal of a burdensome tax reporting requirement that's widely unpopular...

Senate to Vote to Repeal Part of Obama's Health Law

Apr 5, 2011 - 3:27 AM |AP

WASHINGTON - Congress is poised to send the White House its first rollback of last year's health care law, a bipartisan repeal of a burdensome tax reporting requirement that's widely unpopular with...

Medicare Rise Could Mean No Social Security Cost of Living Adjustment

Mar 27, 2011 - 5:00 PM |AP

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WASHINGTON - Millions of retired and disabled people in the United States had better brace for another year with no increase in Social Security payments. The government is projecting a slight...

Forget 'Death Panels' -- Poll Says Most Want Better Life, Not Longer

Mar 8, 2011 - 12:23 PM |AOL News

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WASHINGTON -- A large majority of Americans say the quality of life, not the length, is more important when their days are numbered. But more than half also say the health care system should spare no...

Five Budget Cuts That Could Be Harmful to Your Health

Mar 4, 2011 - 11:49 PM |AOL News

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Hard-fought-for laws and regulations to save lives and the environment will be gutted or eliminated in budget cuts passed by the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives or ordered by...

Man Accused of Prank Calling 911 More Than 18,000 Times

Feb 27, 2011 - 8:35 AM |AOL News

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A Los Angeles man has been arrested after allegedly making more than 18,000 prank calls to the 911 emergency hotline. Maurice Cruz, 43, was arrested Friday on suspicion of misusing 911 emergency...

Searchers Find Body of 4th Amish Child Swept Away in Ky. Creek

Feb 25, 2011 - 1:31 PM |AOL News

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Authorities in Kentucky today found the body of the fourth Amish child who was swept away when the horse-drawn buggy in which she was riding overturned in a rain-swollen creek Thursday, drowning her...

Man Seeks Help to Find Stolen Prosthetic Leg

Feb 25, 2011 - 9:44 AM |AOL News

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Missing: One artificial leg with an Oakland Raiders design on it. Question: Why would anyone steal such a profoundly personal health care item? That's what Darryl Turner wants to know as he pleaded...

Polls Show Public May Not Know What It Wants on Health Care Law

Feb 16, 2011 - 5:05 PM |AOL News

WASHINGTON -- Another day, another health care poll. The latest CBS News poll shows 55 percent oppose Republican efforts to cut funding for the new health care law. Democratic rapid-response teams...

X-Ray Reveals Scissors Left in Patient's Abdomen

Feb 16, 2011 - 2:22 PM |AOL News

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A word to the wise doctor: After you perform surgery, please double-check to see if you've left any instruments behind -- say, inside the patient you just operated on. After a woman, Anne, in Lyon,...

Arizona May Require Hospitals to Check Citizenship

Feb 14, 2011 - 10:35 PM |AP

PHOENIX - Republican lawmakers want to widen Arizona's illegal immigration crackdown with a proposal to require hospitals to check on whether patients are in the country legally, causing outrage...