Deficit Worries Polk Health Care Providers (The Lakeland Ledger)

BARTOW | The projected $15.3 million deficit in Polk County's sales-tax-funded health programs for the uninsured will have ramifications far beyond the people whose jobs will be cut and the thousands enrolled in the Polk Health Care Plan who are losing coverage.

If Medicine Is So High-Tech, Why So Much Illness? (US News & World Report)

A fine new book by a former emergency doc asks tough questions gently.

VA care: American ‘socialized medicine' (Missoulian)

FORT HARRISON - Vietnam veteran William Smith, sitting outside Montana's only veterans hospital as he recovers from an appendectomy, has nothing but praise for the care he's received here.

New ER may mean faster, better, safer care at Parkland (Park Hills Daily Journal)

FARMINGTON — Doctors in white coats will soon replace workers in hard hats inside the new Emergency Department at Parkland Health Center. The public will get its first look at the $5 million facility during an open house from 4 - 7 p.m. Wednesday. A ribbon cutting will be held at 4:15 p.m.

Hospital seeks revenue from slots (Lebanon Daily News)

HERSHEY — The Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center wants $1.5 million from gaming revenues for a training system meant to improve the emergency care offered at the hospital.