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  • Ex-hopeful for governor starts health benefits firm

    01/15/2009 7:47:59 PM PST · by Coleus · 2 replies · 244+ views
    bergen record ^ | Saturday, October 18, 2008 | LINDY WASHBURN
    Doug Forrester, the Republican businessman who lost the governor's race to Jon Corzine in 2005, has launched a new health benefits company for public-sector employees, unions and small businesses in New Jersey.   Called Integrity Health, it is designed to fix the problems Forrester and his wife encountered when their teenage daughter suffered a traumatic brain injury and soon after was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma. "I had to hire somebody to figure out the bills," said Forrester, who, as state director of pensions, ran the state's employee benefit program for six years until 1990. "The bills are impenetrable. A lot...
  • Australian Doctor Dies After Refusing Cancer Treatment in Order to Save Her Unborn Child

    09/15/2007 8:14:34 PM PDT · by monomaniac · 17 replies · 986+ views
    http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/sep/07091405.html ^ | September 14, 2007 | Hilary White
    Australian Doctor Dies After Refusing Cancer Treatment in Order to Save Her Unborn Child Refused high-level chemotherapy that might have saved her from Hodgkin's lymphoma By Hilary White MELBOURNE, September 14, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Another woman has saved her unborn child's life at the expense of her own. In a case similar in many ways to that of Gianna Beretta Molla, the Italian doctor recently canonized by the Vatican for a similar act of self-sacrifice, an Australian GP, Dr. Ellice Hammond, 37, refused high-level chemotherapy that might have saved her from Hodgkin's lymphoma. The treatment would have endangered the life...