We didn't actually overspend our budget. The health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.

It offers an affordable alternative for health care.

There is a waiting list, but for those who qualify it will pay for their oral health services.

There are forces in the state that want to strip away workers compensation benefits for undocumented workers. Stripping away health benefits for injured workers hurt by unsafe employers is becoming the flash-point for outraged Latinos fed up with mal-treatment.

The comparison with PCBs suggests that toxic flame retardants have emerged as a major environmental health concern, ... PBDEs could be as potent a problem as PCBs, which are still polluting people and the environment decades after they were banned. In order to avoid the same outcome with PBDEs, we need to act quickly.

It's based on the honor system, but this is one way we have for helping keep our health-care costs down.