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HEALTH bosses are today discussing key themes following recent public consultation on the future for health services – including Copeland and West Cumberland Hospital.

If you want to understand why we need to reform our health insurance system, you need to know about Americans like Natoma Canfield. Natoma is a 50-year-old cancer survivor from Medina, Ohio, who wrote to President Obama last December. Like a growing numbe

Urban Institute: The Cost Of Uncompensated Care With And Without Health Reform - This report analyzes various health bills. "The cost of uncompensated care will fall from $62.1 billion in 2009 to $46.6 billion in 2019 under the Senate bill, and to $36.5

Workers at a Portland, Ore., steel mill soon will be able to pick a new type of health insurance: one with financial rewards to use proven treatments and disincentives to use less-effective surgeries and diagnostic tests.

Ground Zero responders who developed health problems after working in the ruins of the World Trade Center and sued the city are being offered a settlement totaling $657.5 million. Glen Klein, a former police officer with the New York Police Department's