Gov. Christi addresses teacher health care costs, among other things, during this question and answer session held recently –
Editor’s Note: School teachers, god bless them, are unique individuals who have never left the classroom.
Gov. Christi addresses teacher health care costs, among other things, during this question and answer session held recently –
Editor’s Note: School teachers, god bless them, are unique individuals who have never left the classroom.
Health Care Blue Book provides consumers with transparent health care pricing. The cost differential among providers, whether they are PPO network providers or not, can be significant. Health Care Blue Book has the data to prove it.
Sheriffs in North Carolina want access to state computer records identifying anyone with prescriptions for powerful painkillers and other controlled substances.
The state sheriff’s association pushed the idea Tuesday, saying the move would help them make drug arrests and curb a growing problem of prescription drug abuse. But patient advocates say opening up people’s medicine cabinets to law enforcement would deal a devastating blow to privacy rights.
Allowing sheriffs’ offices and other law enforcement officials to use the state’s computerized list would vastly widen the circle of people with access to information on prescriptions written for millions of people. As it stands now, doctors and pharmacists are the main users.
Read more: http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/09/08/669723/lists-of-pain-pillpatients-sought.html#ixzz0z8dFcjbl