The economic crisis has produced a tsunami of newly unemployed Massachusetts residents seeking financial help with health insurance coverage.
Over the past three months, so many people have signed up for the Medical Security Program, a lifeline that helps middle-and lower-income unemployed residents pay their health insurance premiums, that participation is 73 percent higher than a [...]
Results of a new US study released by the Commonwealth Fund, find that more and more young Americans are living without any form of health insurance.
The report, entitled Rite of Passage? Why Young Adults Become Uninsured and How New Policies Can Help, used census data to calculate the numbers, that show that 13.79 million Americans [...]
A public hearing is to be held on May 30, by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) focusing on the growing health care costs in the United States. The hearing will be part of the NAIC’s Summer National Meeting in San Francisco and is hosted by Health Innovations (B) Working Group.
Members of the Working [...]
How big might the change be? Well, you might be taxed on what your employer pays for your health insurance coverage, for instance. (Right now, you’re probably not, if you work for a big company.) Or you might be guaranteed health insurance, with the government picking up the tab.
Indiana and North Carolina Democrats are to [...]
Business groups support the purpose of the law but worry about the unintended consequences that may ensue from the restrictions on information about genetic information. The bill leaves open the possibility that employers can be sued for just receiving — not acting upon — a worker’s genetic information.
The bill President George W. Bush will sign [...]
CLOSE TO to half a million Jamaicans with health insurance can still expect to pay indirectly for services and items in public health facilities from which user fees are to be removed come Tuesday.
Speaking with The Gleaner yesterday Health Insurance, Minister of Health Rudyard Spencer says while insured persons would not be required to [...]
Folks, a week or so ago my wife and I watched a segment of the “60 Minutes” show on CBS. It was about an organization that gave free medical help to anyone who showed up at their two-day, free health clinic.
This organization, Remote Area Medical (RAM), was established to bring medical services to very remote [...]
“If you look in recent decades, you will find that life expectancy has been increasing, which is good, but when you split this out by better-educated groups, the life expectancy gained is really occurring much more so in the better-educated groups,” said lead [...]
RENO, Nev. (AP) - Five working-age Nevadans die each week
because they lack health insurance coverage, according to a report
released Thursday.
“The uninsured are less likely to have a usual source of care outside of emergency rooms,” said Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA, a Washington, D.C.-based consumer health care group that released the report. “They [...]
CARSON CITY – The Nevada Supreme Court has ruled that governments must provide a subsidy to help pay for health insurance coverage of their retired workers and retired school teachers.
The court’s decision overturned District Judge Mark Denton’s ruling that the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department does not have to subsidize health benefits for 150 retired [...]
