December 10, 2004

May 13,2004

Claiming Arizona has unique problems, Gov. Jan Brewer formally asked federal officials Tuesday for permission to scale back the state's Medicaid program.

Gov. Janet Napolitano said Tuesday that a ballot proposition aimed at preventing universal health care in Arizona could hurt medical coverage provided by employers as well as the state’s program covering indigent residents.

The Obama administration is offering states a chance to make their Medicaid programs more flexible -- but not the one thing sought by Gov. Jan Brewer.

The head of the state's indigent care system is warning that a ballot measure to protect individual choice could end up killing his program.

With cold and flu seasons coming, Scottsdale Community College wants to help students stay healthy by bringing low-cost health care to their doorstep. Starting Wednesday, Scottsdale Healthcare will lend the college its mobile health care unit once a week so students and their families can have access to on-campus medical services.

With cold and flu seasons coming, Scottsdale Community College wants to help students stay healthy by bringing low-cost health care to their doorstep. Starting Wednesday, Scottsdale Healthcare will lend the college its mobile health care unit once a week so students and their families can have access to on-campus medical services.

Sen. Jack Harper doesn’t think Arizona taxpayers should be helping poor men with their poor sex lives. The Surprise Republican has introduced legislation to ban the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System from providing coverage for any drug used to treat erectile dysfunction.

When my neighbor, who operates a small business, had a stroke, the first thing that came to mind as paramedics wheeled him away was, "Does he have health insurance?"

Regardless of what you think about the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also called Obama Care, the delivery of healthcare in the U.S. needs a major overhaul. The focus should be on patients and on high value healthcare. That means doing what it takes to get better outcomes, better safety, better service at lower overall costs — a focus on value, not on volume.

Business types (by exquisitely powerful social custom) detest lawyers, because we get paid for providing services but they claim to get paid only for results. But given the worldwide financial meltdown, wouldn't your 401(k) be better off if you had gotten rid of all the bankers instead?

Backers of a measure to bar universal health care in Arizona are asking a judge to block the director of the state's indigent care system from campaigning against it.

Q. A couple of months ago you answered a question about shutting down Windows Messenger. You said to click My Computer > Control Panel > Computer Management > Services & Applications. I’m using XP Home, but I can’t get beyond the Control Panel. Does this mean that Messenger has already been turned off?

WASHINGTON — For critical Senate races, Republicans are turning to the playbook that served them so well in the 2010 elections. They're saturating the airwaves with political ads detailing the perils of "Obamacare" and the nation's growing debt.

Freedom of choice or astronomical price tag? The sound bytes for and against Proposition 101 can paint a confusing picture for voters. Even the name of the proposed constitutional amendment - Freedom of Choice in Health Care Act - implies there isn't choice now.