Cynthia Houston didn’t panic when she lost her job at the Mount Pleasant School District in 2008. She looked for another job and paid the extra money to keep
Joe Wright proves defining “uninsured” isn’t always easy. The 52-year-old Decorah resident works and can get medical insurance — except for the diabetes that has plagued his health for the 23 years. Insurance companies exempted coverage from the root cause of his health problems.
The Iowa Indigent Care Program was created in 1915 as a safety net for low income Iowans who were not eligible for other health care programs. While a compassionate reason,
State legislators are expected to consider a bill to ease parts of a controversial Iowa law allowing imprisonment of HIV-infected people for up to 25 years if they don’t reveal their condition before having “intimate contact” with another person.
Dementia is not a disease, but rather a collection of symptoms stemming from brain deterioration that occurs as people age. Alzheimer’s disease and small repetitive strokes known as vascular dementia are the most common illnesses leading to dementia.
