Thursday, March 22, 2007

Individual health insurance - A solution to towns' soaring health costs

Boston Globe - CITIES AND TOWNS in Massachusetts are facing a crisis of skyrocketing increases in employee health insurance with no letup in sight. Annual double-digit health cost increases put pressure on the property tax by absorbing a larger share of revenue
Pan American Health Organization - TB sickens some 352,000 people, and kills 50,000 each year in the Region of the Americas. There are 40 new cases of TB every hour. One person dies of TB every 10 minutes. TB strikes children, young people, and the elderly; men and women alike. Lower