Did the Boston Herald Botch Its Illegal Immigrant Health Story?

Happy Halloween! Don't eat too much candy, or you'll wind up like this poor pumpkin. Here's what we're checking out today:

Immigrant Health: CommonHealth's Carey Goldberg reports on a controversy over the Boston Herald's coverage of the health care costs of illegal immigrants. Did the paper get its facts wrong?

Breast Cancer: The Baltimore Sun's Janet Gilbert gets the "lede of the day" award for this start to her very personal column on breast cancer awareness: " Please stop reading this if you are not interested in my breasts. (Now there's a topic sentence that might not make it past an editor.)"

Medicare Fraud: Walecia Konrad of the New York Times offers some illuminating backstory and context to the recent arrests of alleged Armenian-American crime syndicate members accused of a massive Medicare scam.

Health Reform: Kaiser Health News offers a roundup of news on how health reform issues are shaping the midterm elections.

Health Insurance: It was bound to happen. Now a Florida company is offering specialized insurance to guard against the possibility of "catastrophic" complications from surgery, playing off consumer concerns about medical errors.

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