Archive for the 'Public Health' Category

H1N1 Vaccinations Are Now Open To All Iowans

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

All Iowans are eligible to receive an H1N1 flu vaccination. The announcement was made by the Iowa Specialty
of Public Health (IDPH) last week.
“Local public health agencies have done a tremendous job during this vaccination campaign, and in getting those at highest risk vaccinated,“ said IDPH Director Tom Newton. “We feel confident that it is [...]

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Health care’s ‘public option’ would cover little of population

Monday, December 21st, 2009

A proposed government-run health indemnity
program, among the most discordant
issues in the health care debate, would take in
less than 1.5% of the population, new estimates show.
The latest version of the “public option,” included in the 10-year, $848 billion health care bill headed toward an initial Senate vote Saturday, would take in
up to [...]

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Health Care Bill To Be Passed By Christmas? Millions of Americans still uninsured

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

Many people are simply unaware what the current health care debate is even about. It all started with President Obama’s promise of health care for every American. Since then he has been attempting to get the Senate to pass a health care bill that went
quickly through the house. A few foremost
things happened that [...]

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Public Health Preparedness

Monday, May 11th, 2009

First there was 9/11, then Katrina and Rita. We’ve all seen the pictures, and heard the horror tales
of what happened when people were caught unable to keep their families operating even for a few hours. Some of this was unavoidable.
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