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In health care circles, people talk more and more about something called cost shifting.

Cost shifting happens every time a doctor treats a patient who has no insurance.

Some of those costs, get passed along to insurance companies, businesses, and other patients.

Yesterday in Manchester NHPR’s Exchange held a town hall meeting on the uninsured, and cost shifting was central to the conversation.

NHPR’s Dan Gorenstein reports.

New Hampshire citizens vote on school district issues this week in addition to their Town Meeting debates.

The school debates have taken place as rising local taxes increase the pressure on spending decisions.
But this week many communities will be debating under pressure from another direction.

There’s a teacher shortage, and officials say the need to retain existing teachers and recruit new ones approaches crisis proportions.

N-H-P-R political correspondent John Milne filed this report:

Voters in many places around the state will go to their annual town meeting tonight.

Those meetings can often be contentious. Battles over a new police cruiser or renovating the library sometimes carry on past midnight.

But that probably won't happen in New Hampshire's smallest town, Hart's Location. Fewer than forty people live in Hart's Location, and town meetings there tend to be short and peaceful.

NHPR's Trish Anderton visited town clerk Marion Varney and filed this report.