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The Arizona Foundation for Medical Care is conducting a survey to gauge the attitudes of Arizona businesses during the economic downturn and how it will affect health care expenses in 2009.

But the White House left it up to the incoming Obama administration to determine how much sacrifice to demand from the hobbled automakers and their workers in the effort to nurse Detroit back to health.

Rhode Island Gov. Don Carcieri and the Bush administration reached an agreement Friday that could dramatically restrict the state's nursing home services for the elderly and adjust health care and prescription drug coverage for the poor and disabled. The deal...

A British yachtswoman taking part in a solo round-the-world race was tonight sailing to the rescue of a badly injured fellow competitor and close friend.Sam Davies, on board the yacht Roxy, was trying to get to French sailor Yann Eliès who broke a leg after a large wave smashed into his boat 800 miles off the coast of Australia during the Vendée Globe race.Speaking to the Guardian via satellite phone, Davies said it had been a huge shock to hear of her friend's injury.She said: 'There's no way we can get him off his boat and on to one of ours. The plan is to stand by and be moral and psychological support for him while he's waiting for the real rescue.'Obviously I'd do anything and if the worst came to the worst I'd leave Roxy and I could get on to his boat and take him to safety that way. I hope it doesn't work out that way. It would be a slower rescue.'A second competitor, Marc Guillemot, has already reached Eliès and is sailing a parallel course to him, though there is little he can

WALTHAM, MA (MARKET WIRE) Hart-Boillot, an advertising and public relations agency specializing in clean- and high-technology, medical and higher education markets, recently announced the completion and launch of two new web sites: The Marino Center for Integrative Health and Mollie Johnson Interiors. These sites join an expanding list of successful web design projects Hart-Boillot completed over the past year.

Brian McDermott, vice president of Supplier Management Robert Young, assistant vice president of Civil Aviation Lisa Goldberg, director of Environment, Safety and Health AIA President and CEO Marion Blakey said the new additions will improve the ...

Two new reports from the Congressional Budget Office outline 'more than a few fiscal challenges for lawmakers hoping to write legislation' to overhaul the U.S. health care system, CQ Today reports. According to CBO, 'serious concerns exist about the efficiency of the health care system, but no simple solutions are available to reduce the level or control the growth of health care costs' (Armstrong, CQ Today, 12/18).read more

The Boston Globe on Friday examined how '[k]ey players in the debate over how to provide health care coverage for the nation's 47 million uninsured' residents believe that the Massachusetts health insurance law is 'an important model for what Washington could do and how to get it done.' The state system requires that residents obtain health coverage, with subsidies available for eligible residents. In addition, employers must either offer coverage or pay into a state insurance fund.read more

The minutes of the meeting on 25 November 2008 are now available online.Motor Vehicle Repair Health and Safety Forum meeting minutes - 25 November 2008 [PDF 45KB]

Unemployment protection insurance has to be given some serious thought as there are three different types. All would protect your repayments against the possibility that you might lose your income to redundancy.