The argument for limiting the tax exclusion is that the tax break on health insurance encourages over-spending, so limiting it could help in the process of “bending the curve”. More generally, since we think the United States spends too much on health for not-so-good results, it makes sense where possible to pay for expanding coverage from the health sector itself. Both arguments are reasonable.
Al-Bayrouni Hospital in Damascus successfully performed several esophageal stoma procedures, which involve surgical opening of the esophagus and installing a device known as a speech button to restore the ability to speak in patients who underwent laryngectomy because of laryngeal cancer.
The Ministry of Information, in cooperation with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) launched on Saturday the Media Campaign for Family Planning and Mothers Health at Sheraton Hotel in Damascus.
In a speech, Minister of Information Dr. Mohsen Bilal stressed that the campaign is a national and moral responsibility, and that it serves as the basis for the process of family planning and changing the typical concept of large families.
Gaza - A 56-year-old Palestinian woman from the Gaza Strip died on Thursday in a Gaza hospital of swine flu, doctors in the Hamas-run ministry of health in the salient said. Her death brings to six the number of Gazans who have died of the disease in the past six days.