Subject: Health Care Issues

• Gone to Pot: The Phoenix Global Marijuana March

  May 4, 2008

• SECOND HELPINGS

  July 7, 1994

• A Three-Pronged Probe

  State's AHCCCS program under investigation by trio of federal agencies

  November 9, 1995

• The Health-Care Mirage

  GOP boosters say Arizona's medical system for the poor should be a model for national health-care reform. But three federal investigations question whether Arizona's system is any less expensive than traditional Medicaid plans.

  December 28, 1995

• 20/20 Hindsight

  As network news shows begin investigating alleged AHCCCS abuses, the Arizona Republic finally takes notice

  February 22, 1996

• Some Hacked-Off Smokers

  The struggle to undo Mesa's antismoking law ranges from the reasonable to the hysterical

  October 3, 1996

• Tokin' Resistance

  Proposition 200 -- the Drug Medicalization Act -- is causing high anxiety among politicians and lawmen

  December 12, 1996

• Mrs. Good Retch

  The state's antitobacco ads get more nauseating--and popular--by the week

  April 24, 1997

• Tax Rebels With a Cause

  October 8, 1998

• Doctoring the Bills?

  FBI investigates possible Medicare fraud in county health-care system

  May 13, 1999

• Where there's smoke, there's ire

  Letters from the week of July 4, 2002

  July 4, 2002

• Where There's Smoke...

  Letters from the week of November 14, 2002

  November 14, 2002

• BEST VENUE FOR LOCAL ACTS

  Long Wong's

  September 18, 2003

• Letters

  Letters from the week of April 15,2004

  April 15, 2004

• The Deal sisters bring back the Breeders with Mountain Battles

  May 1, 2008

• UPDATE: County Attorney Andrew Thomas Says Final Exit Network "Assisted Suicide" Case on Front Burner

  County Attorney Andrew Thomas didn't answer many questions at his press conference a few hours ago about Phoenix's "assisted suicide" case, the story we broke in an August 2007 piece entitled "Death Wish." What he did tell those assembled in the crowded conference room of his eighth-floor suite was that investigators from his office had assisted other agencies in the arrest -- on still-unspecified charges--of Baltimore, Maryland, Dr. Larry Egbert, medical director of the Fina

  February 25, 2009

• Waiting to Exhale

  October 30, 2008

• A legal battle with Wal-Mart over injury benefits broke this elderly store greeter’s spirit

  June 5, 2008

• Death Wish

  The Final Exit volunteers call it assisted suicide. Prosecutors may call it manslaughter

  August 23, 2007

• The Last Word

  Perspectives on suffering

  August 23, 2007

• Up in Smoke

  Looking for a place to puff

  July 19, 2007

• Mail Order Joe

  The cranky cockatoo criticizes Sheriff Joe's new jail mail policy, and agitates the agitators at last week's kooky counter-protest

  May 10, 2007

• Puff Piece

  Satire falls short of incendiary

  March 23, 2006

• Lactose Intolerants

  The taloned one sucks up to breast-feeding MILFs, observes that Smoke Free Arizona ain't no pot initiative and squawks at union boss Billy Shields

  November 10, 2005

• Waiting to Exhale

  July 29, 2004

• Naive Gringo Pill Popped Below Border

  July 22, 2004

• Blowing Smoke

  Mark Brnovich stands up and opposes the smoking ban

  March 11, 2004

• BEAT IT:

  Quitting for dummies

  January 22, 2004

• Smoke Rings

  Long Wong's is still a smoky dive, but the smoke is on the patio

  July 31, 2003

• Winging It

  Marla Wing is a political activist and a lot of other things. You figure it out.

  September 5, 2002

• Up in Smoke

  Having a drink - but not a smoke - with the number one enemy of Proposition 200

  June 27, 2002

• Branded Man

  Fifty years into his career, Merle Haggard is still stubbornly going against the grain

  May 9, 2002

• Big Bong Theory

  Arizona's pro-pot advocates cast first stone in latest national effort to legalize marijuana

  September 13, 2001

• Gone in a Puff of Smoke

  Is secondhand cigarette residue responsible for blues legend David Trippy's inoperable cancer?

  May 17, 2001

• On the Beach

  Dialectrics' main man readies an intimate solo effort

  June 22, 2000

• War of the Wards

  Phoenix Children's Hospital, for years hidden inside Good Samaritan hospital, seems to have been misplaced by the federal government

  September 30, 1999

• Second Helpings

  March 14, 1996

• Mayoral Smoke Screen?

  Rimsza blasts cigarette makers, then endorses tobacco-industry legislation

  January 18, 1996

• Where There's Smoke

  There are Friends of Tobacco. And antismoking advocates worry that behind-the-scenes machinations may water down a state campaign to discourage teen smoking.

  January 4, 1996

• DEAD AND FORGOTTEN

  THE STATE'S MEDICAL SYSTEM FOR THE POOR DOESN'T KNOW WHETHER ITS CLIENTS ARE DEAD OR ALIVE. AND THAT'S HARDLY THE WORST OF THE PROBLEMS AT THE ARIZONA HEALTH CARE COST CONTAINMENT SYSTEM.

  April 27, 1995

• A WORD TO THE WISE: DON'T GET SICK

  April 1, 1992

• THOSE "UNPROFITABLE" CANCER VICTIMS

  "CANCEL" IS ALSO A DEADLY WORD FOR MANY ARIZONANS WHO ARE LOSING HEALTH INSURANCE

  February 5, 1992

• Concealed Weapons in Arizona Restaurants?

  Did you catch this news? The Associated Press reported on SB 1113, a bill passed by a state Senate panel last week that would allow people to bring handguns into restaurants -- provided they have a concealed carry permit and do not consume alcohol. Governor Janet Napolitano vetoed a similar bill in 2005.

  June 15, 2009

• The Marijuana Militia's Been Activated to Bring Medicinal Dope to Arizona

    www.artfiles.comIn the 1997 Quentin Tarantino film Jackie Brown, Robert DeNiro's character walks into an apartment and finds Bridget Fonda's flakey blonde character watching television with bong in  hand. He says to her: "You know that shit will kill your ambition." She replies: "Not if your ambition is to get stoned and watch TV" Here in Phoenix our stoners are far more goal oriented. The Arizona Medical Marijuana Policy Project, a stoner support grou

  July 21, 2009

• "Electronic Cigarettes" Still Bad For You, FDA Study Finds; Scottsdale Company Preparing Counter-Study

  NJOY cigarettes   Cigarettes are bad for you and can cause cancer - even if they're electronic, according to an FDA report released earlier today. The study analyzed the chemicals contained in the electronic nicotine cartridges from Smoking Everywhere Inc., and NJOY, a Scottsdale-based company. "These tests indicate that these products contained detectable levels of known carcinogens and toxic chemicals to which users could potentially be exposed," the FDA said in a press release. NJOY

  July 23, 2009

• Basketball Courtship

  August 6, 2009

• One Stinkin' Republican Vote Seperates Arizona From a State Budget

  www.cama.com​At this point, there are three reasons Arizona still has a $3.4 billion budget gap: state senators Pamela Gorman, Ron Gould, and Carolyn Allen.Senate Republicans are one vote away from the 16 they need to pass a plan that would bridge the budget gap, and the three stubborn Republican holdouts aren't budging.Senate leaders are targeting Allen and Gorman as the two most likely to change their no votes, and get the legislation passed, but most Republica

  August 7, 2009

• If John Shadegg Wants People to Take Him Seriously, He Should Give Drug Companies Their Money Back

  August 20, 2009

• Arizona Blogger Fingered as Source of "Persistent Falsehoods" on Healthcare Reform

  An Arizona blogger is having a "Joe the Plumber" moment.​He's not quite Joe the Plumber -- but a local blogger named Peter Fleckenstein is still in the midst of something akin to his 15 minutes of fame. And as Joe the Plumber would learn, that's both a good thing and a bad thing.For one thing, he's famous.For another, he's getting attacked.Now, we'd never heard of Fleckenstein (despite being a regular reader of some of the bigger conservative blogs in town). But he's apparently a Phoenix-based

  September 1, 2009

• Now Hiring: Denver Newspaper Owned By New Times Parent Company Seeks Marijuana Critic

  www.demotivators.com​Any aspiring journalists looking for a great gig? Well New Times parent company, Village Voice Media, is seeking an energetic young writer for what may be the greatest job in journalism -- marijuana critic. You may have to move to the mile high city but when you're already high, what's a few more feet, right? Colorado has a medicinal marijuana law on the books and Westword, our Denver sister paper, is looking for someone to review medicinal marijuana parlors and pro

  October 23, 2009