Topic: Nevada
After flipping New York's 26th District in a special election two months ago, national Democrats were sure they would come up with a surefire formula to win back the House next year: Medicare.Democrats thought they won that heavily Republican district because they ...
An ongoing Las Vegas Sun investigation paints a bleak portrait of hospital care in Southern Nevada. But according to a federal government study released Tuesday, the situation may be much worse. A nationwide study of the medical records of 780 randomly sampled ...
Former casino owner and Republican nominee Sue Lowden, running against Harry Reid for the Nevada Senate seat this November has revealed once again how prosaic Republicans are for offering genuine, honest remedies to serious complex problems. In her epiphany on this expressed ...
Did you know that the State of Nevada has a program to help residents save money on prescription drugs? It's true - through the Nevada Canadian Pharmacy Program, you can order medications from Canadian pharmacies licensed by the Nevada State Board of ...
The SunÕs reporting on patients being harmed while hospitalized is based on the newspaperÕs analysis of Nevada hospital data collected in 2008 and 2009. Nevada law requires that the data, which are based on hospital billing records, be collected for analysis. Nevada ...
A CLOSER LOOK AT THE NUMBERS 518,000 Number of uninsured Nevadans under age 65 last year, according to The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a health care advocacy organization in Princeton, N.J. In a worst-case scenario, the foundation estimates that had Congress failed ...
Howard Dean has been chairman of the Democratic National Committee, a governor and presidential candidate. Yet the physician has had some unflattering things to say about his partyÕs health care reform bill.Still, Dean will defend it and DemocratsÕ positions on other issues ...
State GOP says senator hasnÕt brought enough pork; national complains of Nevada favoritism WASHINGTON As Republicans ramp up their campaign against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the partys Nevada and Washington operations cant seem to get their stories straight on a line ...
THE SUNS MOSTREAD STORIES*1. GOP victory in Massachusetts signals trouble for Democrats. Carl Icahn to take ownership of Fontainebleau. Henderson places stricter regulations on massage parlors. ThursdayCHOICE COMMENTSOn Reid, Democrats consider health care reform options after losing supermajority in Senate, from stingraynm: ...
The 57-41 roll call Friday by which the Senate turned back a Republican effort to restore $120 billion in cuts to Medicare Advantage, the private insurance plans within Medicare that provides seniors with better benefits than the traditional program.A " ; Webb, ...