A health insurance advocate group, Florida Health Insurance Web, reports more bad news for Florida residents. Florida has hit a new low, ranked close to the bottom of a new national survey on healthcare; just a spot above Oklahoma. The first-ever state-by-state health system report focused on children’s health care and finds Florida’s kids have [...]
The economic slowdown has swelled the ranks of people without health insurance. But now it is also threatening millions of people who have insurance but find that the coverage is too limited or that they cannot afford their own share of medical costs.
Even many of the 158 million people covered by employer health insurance are [...]
WASHINGTON - President Bush took his proposals to slow Medicare and Medicaid spending to a new scale in his proposed 2009 budget even though previous, more modest efforts to trim the entitlement programs went nowhere.
Over the next five years, the president would reduce by $196 billion the two entitlement programs that provide most of the [...]
While Pennsylvania no longer will reimburse hospitals for medical costs related to some preventable errors, it appears the new rule will initially apply to one-third of the more than 40,000 Bucks County residents receiving medical-assistance benefits.
As part of Gov. Ed Rendell’s �Prescription of Pennsylvania� health reform package, the new policy is designed to improve patient [...]
TRENTON, N.J. - The volume of claims by Vioxx patients hoping to get a piece of a $4.85 billion settlement makes it appear likely that the deal will go forward, according to lawyers and drug maker Merck %26amp; Co.
Thousands of people have sued Merck, claiming they were injured before the painkiller was pulled from shelves. [...]
