The Hill, a newspaper that covers Congress when it’s in session, lists U.S. Rep.. Heath Shuler, D-Waynesville, as undecided in its latest survey/tracking of House Democrats’ positions on health care reform legislation.
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City, Asheville Chamber talk about economic situation, new initiatives
Better health care, getting Google and taking tourism to “the viral world” were all topics of discussion at a meeting today between the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce and city officials.
City of Asheville moves toward same-sex domestic partner benefits for employees
City Council votes 4-2 to support benefits “in concept” and instruct city staff to research a potential ordinance.
Shuler opposes health care legislation, but says “we’ve got to have reform”
Rep. Heath Shuler was in Asheville yesterday, fielding questions from citizens on the radio and speaking to local businesspeople. He reaffirmed his opposition to health care reform legislation currently before the House of Representatives, but said “we’ve got to have reform.”
Sen. Hagan visits local leaders, pitches health-care reform
In a sit-down with Buncombe County Commissioners and Asheville City Council members on Friday, Sen. Kay Hagan endorsed public health care.
Local nonprofit wins grant to help minority cancer patients
African-Americans are roughly twice as likely as other Buncombe County residents to suffer from diabetes, prostate cancer and breast cancer, Elaine Robinson reports. And as executive director of the Asheville-Buncombe Institute of Parity Achievement, she’s trying to do something about it. Since its inception five years ago, the organization has worked to address such local […]
Buncombe Commissioners: Pitchforks and health care
At their March 3 meeting, the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners gave staff the go-ahead to work out the details of switching the county’s indigent health-care services over to a local nonprofit. Also: conservative activists wielded (cardboard) pitchforks.
Adding health care to the menu
Every restaurant server knows the verbal tipper—the customer who doles out extravagant praise and leaves behind a measly 15 percent. In the food-and-beverage biz, such stinginess isn’t just an aggravation: It makes it significantly harder for a server, who’s typically paid less than $3 an hour, to afford flu shots, prescription drugs and annual checkups. […]
Obama outlines health-care plan, attacks McCain at Asheville rally
Before a crowd estimated at more than 25,000 at Asheville High School this afternoon, presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama outlined a health-care plan he says will cover all Americans and attacked the campaign of his rival, Sen. McCain, as “out of touch, out of ideas and running out of time.”
Brain man
Depending on whom you ask, Fletcher-based neurosurgeon Michael J. Rosner is either a skull-shaving savior or a shameless opportunist who’s needlessly operating on patients desperate for a cure. Dr. Michael J. Rosner has operated on hundreds of patients to remove bits of bone at the base of the skull and along the spinal cord — […]
Health Net to forge links, fill in cracks
Buncombe County and Health Partners, an Asheville-based nonprofit, are gearing up to roll out an ambitious online system later this year called Health Net that will help safety-net providers better serve the county’s uninsured, low-income and impoverished residents. Nothing but Net: Health Net Director J. Nelson-Weaver says the system will connect all of the area’s […]
The Biz
Buncombe County and Health Partners, an Asheville-based nonprofit, are gearing up to roll out an ambitious online system later this year called Health Net that will help safety-net providers better serve the county’s uninsured, low-income and impoverished residents. Nothing but Net: Health Net Director J. Nelson-Weaver says the system will connect all of the area’s […]
Cause of death?
Lack of health insurance kills nearly 1,000 adult North Carolinians a year, according to Families USA, a nonprofit that advocates for high-quality, affordable health care.
