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Most Californians are in favor of the new health care bill recently approved by the Assembly.
A Field Poll found:
By a nearly three-to-one margin (64 percent to 23 percent), California voters are inclined to favor a major health care reform plan backed by Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Democratic Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, which is now making its way through the state legislature.
(See the post, "Assembly passes health reform legislation.")
These findings...
You can get gift cards to almost any store or Web site, for almost any good or service, so I suppose it was only a matter of time before someone created a gift card for something that leads to half of all bankruptcies — health care.
A Pittsburgh health insurer is selling Healthcare Visa Gift Cards.
Cards range from $25 to $5,000 and can be used for "co-pays at doctor's and pharmacies; dental care including braces and teeth whitening; vision care including eye exams and...
MRSA has been given a pretty scary nickname: superbug.
But MRSA — otherwise known as methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, which also doesn't sound too fun — shouldn't keep parents up late at night worrying, state and local officials said today.
Several of these officials gathered for a mid-morning press conference Wednesday at Downtown Elementary School to talk about MRSA in schools. (Read "Germ hasn't hit Kern schools" in Thursday's paper.)
Kern County...
California just got one step closer to health care reform.
Legislation that would provide coverage to a lot of uninsured Californians was approved today by the state Assembly.
The $14.4 billion health care reform plan has the support of Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, but will not become law this year because Sen. President Pro Tem Don Perata, D-Oakland, wants to determine its impact on the state's $14 billion deficit before putting it to a vote of the Senate, according to the...
It looks like the Kern High School District board isn't the only one debating freedom of choice in public schools.
The San Diego Unified attorneys are taking a second look at a policy that requires school staff to tell parents and guardians if they learn a teen is pregnant.
Some schools say the parents have a right to know to protect the health of the teen and baby, according to a story posted on the Voice of San Diego's Web site Friday.
Civil libertarians and pro-choice advocates...
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It looks like Kern Medical Center's beleaguered OB/GYN department will grace the pages of The Californian yet again. A former KMC OB/GYN resident has filed a claim against the county, the hospital and several other medical residents for damages she says she suffered after the residents inappropriately accessed her medical records. (Read "Former KMC resident files invasion of privacy claim," which was posted to Bakersfield.com a few minutes ago.) Dr. Nicole Sharkey, who was...
If you were dying and Dr. Gregory House was a real person — and not the main character in Fox's "House" — would you want him treating you?
Would you excuse his reckless, sometimes illegal actions and terrible bedside manner for his lifesaving diagnosis?
That question is at the heart of an article in the Medical Board of California's recent newsletter, written by Bakersfield native Dr. Cesar Aristeiguieta, the board’s vice president. (To read the report, open...
If 80 percent of people with West Nile virus have no symptoms, that means at least 690 Kern County residents were infected by the mosquito-borne virus year.
This figure assumes that every person who felt sick went to the doctor, who then reported the case to the state, so this number is probably much higher.
Now that the season is pretty much over, how do you feel about Kern's response to having the most cases of any county in the country?
(Read "A year's lessons in fighting...
Most of you probably won't admit it within earshot of an employer, but you know you've played hooky from work by calling in sick a time or two.
CareerBuilder.com recently released its annual survey on absenteeism and found that 32 percent of workers admitted to calling in sick when they were well at least once in the last year.
The good news: 75 percent of employers said they typically believe their employees' excuses.
The survey, which included 5,989 workers and 2,929 hiring...
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