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Consumer protections lost in health care debate (AP)

By Yahoo! News: Health News on August 9, 2009

FILE -- In this July 29, 2009 file photo, President Barack Obama listens to a question during a town hall meeting on health care at a supermarket in Bristol, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)AP – It’s one issue in the health care debate that nearly everyone — even the insurance lobby — seems to agree on: Better consumer protections are needed to end the nightmare of not being able to get covered for a treatable, if costly, illness.


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Obama: Health overhaul key to economic recovery (AP)

By Yahoo! News: Health News on August 9, 2009

President Barack Obama smiles as he arrives to speak on the economy, Friday, Aug. 7, 2009, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)AP – Using better-than-expected jobs numbers to press his top domestic priority, President Barack Obama is arguing that overhauling the health care system is essential to the country’s economic well-being.


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China lifts blockade around plague-stricken town (AP)

By Yahoo! News: Health News on August 9, 2009

In this undated image made from video and released by China's Central China Television, CCTV via APTN on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2009, a policewoman stands guard outside a hospital where patients are being treated for pneumonic plague in the town of Ziketan, in China's Qinghai province. Public buses were ordered off the roads of the remote Chinese town to control the possible spread of the highly infectious lung disease that has killed three people and seemed poised to claim a fourth victim Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2009, residents and authorities said. (AP Photo/CCTV via APTN)AP – A blockade around a remote northwest Chinese town where deadly pneumonic plague killed three people and sickened nine was lifted after no new infections were reported, an official said Sunday.


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Good Planning Paves Way for Kid’s Operation (HealthDay)

By Yahoo! News: Health News on August 9, 2009

HealthDay – SATURDAY, Aug. 8 (HealthDay News) — To ease the anxiety of a
child undergoing surgery, it helps if parents and children are
well-prepared, advises the American Society of Anesthesiologists.

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Drug industry backing Obama’s health care plan (AP)

By Yahoo! News: Health News on August 9, 2009

FILE - In this Aug. 4, 2009 file photo, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. talks to reporter after lunch with President Obama, outside the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, FILE)AP – The nation’s drugmakers stand ready to spend $150 million to help President Barack Obama overhaul health care this fall, according to numerous officials, a staggering sum that could dwarf attempts to derail his chief domestic priority.


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