ADVISORY/Consumer Reports and Consumers Union Introduce Two Reports On Widening Gap in Health Care Access, Quality and Cost for Uninsured, Poor and Sick Americans.Business and Consumer Editors ADVISORY...for Thursday Thursday: see week. (Aug. 10) --(BW HealthWire)-- New National Information Released on People Lacking Health Coverage and on Consumer Health-care Expenditures -- WHAT: Consumer Reports will release "Second-class sec·ond-class adj. 1. Of secondary status: second-class issues. 2. Of or relating to travel accommodations ranking next below the highest or first class. 3. Medicine," a major report on how America America [for Amerigo Vespucci], the lands of the Western Hemisphere—North America, Central (or Middle) America, and South America. The world map published in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller is the first known cartographic use of the name. treats the uninsured, in the September September: see month. issue. Consumers Union Washington Office will release "The Health Care Divide," an evaluation of the burden health-care spending places on various segments of society. WHO: Trudy Lieberman, Director, Consumers Union Center for Consumer Health Choices Gail Shearer shearer person whose occupation is shearing sheep. , Director, Health Policy Analysis, Consumers Union Washington Office Bob Cosby, Executive Director, Non-Profit Clinic Consortium, Washington, D.C. WHEN: THURSDAY, AUGUST 10th: 9:30 - 11:00 A.M. EASTERN TIME WHERE: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB, 529 14TH ST., N.W., MURROW ROOM WASHINGTON, D.C. Consumer Reports' "Second-class Medicine" discusses: -- How many Americans lack health coverage today? -- How does quality of health care differ for the uninsured? -- How have some people's lives been impacted? -- How are the uninsured cared for in clinics and emergency rooms? Consumers Union's "The Health-Care Divide" will reveal: -- What percentage of American families American Family is a photographic artwork exhibition by Renée Cox. See also
percent of their income on health care? -- What do the sickest and poorest Americans spend on health care compared to the average American? -- Why don't marketplace solutions and piecemeal piecemeal patchy, e.g. necrosis of the liver in which groups of hepatocytes are separated by small groups of inflammatory cells and fine, fibrous septa following extension of the inflammatory process beyond the limiting plate. attempts at reform work? -- What should the government do? WHY: -- At a time of unparalleled prosperity in the richest country in the world, millions of people still go without health insurance. -- The number of uninsured consumers continues to grow. -- The burden of paying health-care costs falls upon those who can least afford it. Materials embargoed Embargoed is a UK based human rights organisation campaigning to bring an immediate and unconditional end to all embargoes against the people of Northern Cyprus. Embargoed does not proscribe any political remedy, but considers the embargoes on the people of Northern Cyprus to be until 11:00 A.M. Eastern Time on Thursday, August 10th. To register for the press conference call Joan Eve Tripi at 914-378-2436 or David Butler at 202-462-6262 |
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