There’s something missing from our current debate about national health care. Too few are talking about actual health. We lament the red tape, the gaps in insurance coverage and the costs that seem to escalate daily. But we often forget the central point: Our own individual health and well being. How can Americans be healthier, feel better and live longer?

My father-in-law, Bill, lay dying. He lived a remarkable 92-year life and we wanted to make his last days as comfortable as possible. Unfortunately, the medical insurance complex that combines the worst features of capitalism and socialized medicine did not care about Bill or his family. His final days are a case study on our broken health care system.

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Will physicians — particularly under a national health plan — provide aggressive treatment for the very old?

Chandler Regional Medical Center and Mercy Gilbert Medical Center are looking for volunteers between the ages of 14 to 18 interested in helping others, gaining work experience and making new friends at the hospital or one of the Catholic Healthcare West Urgent Care centers in Ahwatukee Foothills, Gilbert and Queen Creek. Applications are due May 1.

A growing number of Americans are finding themselves cut off from the nation’s health care system, so the need to change that system has never been more critical, according to Dr. Jerome Grossman, director of the Health Care Delivery Policy Program in the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

As a child, Melissa Richardson was bounced between foster care homes, group homes and her mother’s home. Stability was in short supply.

U.S. Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl, both R-Ariz., have taken a welcome first step to help resolve a looming health care crisis in our state: Huge losses sustained by hospitals and clinics serving large numbers of patients without health insurance.

The new health care reform has several provisions affecting the future of oral health for Americans. These various provisions in HR 3590 and HR 4960 will be going into effect from 2010 to 2018. The American Dental Association made a strong presence during the passing of the bill to ensure the House bill contains provisions to improve oral health nationwide. The 2010 oral health care provisions focus on oral health prevention, oral health workforce, health care quality, public health infrastructure, insurance fraud and abuse.

The new health care reform has several provisions affecting the future of oral health for Americans. These various provisions in HR 3590 and HR 4960 will be going into effect from 2010 to 2018. The American Dental Association made a strong presence during the passing of the bill to ensure the House bill contains provisions to improve oral health nationwide. The 2010 oral health care provisions focus on oral health prevention, oral health workforce, health care quality, public health infrastructure, insurance fraud and abuse.

Conservatives really wanted a fight about religious freedom. It appeared to be an easy win: turn an ObamaCare mandate that insurers cover birth control into a war on religion. The GOP, void of any ideas Obama hasn’t contaminated by agreeing with, finds itself in an election year frantically looking for a bold battle cry. That sweet hot button issue that can excite their party and (hopefully) win them the White House (or maybe the Senate).

Doctors at St. Joseph’s Peoria North Clinic believe the opening of their neighborhood clinic will change the public’s attitude toward health and wellness by encouraging individuals and families to routinely visit a primary care facility.

More than a year after President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, health care experts who gathered in Glendale Friday said the law continues to evolve. “This is a very fluid piece of legislation,” said Ruthann Laswick of Black, Gould & Associates. “HHS (the Department of Health and Human Services) is constantly making clarifications. What you’re told one day could be completely different a few days later because their interpretation has changed.”

More than a year after President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, health care experts who gathered in Glendale Friday said the law continues to evolve. “This is a very fluid piece of legislation,” said Ruthann Laswick of Black, Gould & Associates. “HHS (the Department of Health and Human Services) is constantly making clarifications. What you’re told one day could be completely different a few days later because their interpretation has changed.”