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- Benefit auction set for Saturday 24 Jul 2008 12:48 GMT
... By Tonya McKiever Staff Writer // tonyam@nwanews.com width="300" height="250" ... Trying to treat a rare medical condition without health insurance is a monumental challenge. It's what faces ...
- Waiting Doom 24 Jul 2008 12:17 GMT
... those that profit more from boarding, particularly in poorer communities with high numbers of uninsured and Medicaid patients. Imagine you run a hospital. There are two competing sources for inpatient beds. The first ...
- Insuring the uninsured will be costly 24 Jul 2008 12:13 GMT
... if recommendations on reducing the number of uninsured Ohioans are adopted. The price tag, depending on ... involves allowing adults who are not on Medicaid to enroll in one of the seven ... executive officer of the Ohio Association of Health Plans and a member of the study committee, ...
- Health insurance push expands beyond schools 24 Jul 2008 12:00 GMT
... aimed at enrolling children in low-cost government health insurance added a new goal this year: getting ... Monroe, state schools Superintendent Suellen Reed and Medicaid chief Jeff Wells joined advocates from Covering ... critical that we work together to connect uninsured families to available services,” Reed said. The annual ...
- State of the Union Address 2007 24 Jul 2008 11:11 GMT
... those responsibilities. For all other Americans, private health insurance is the best way to meet their ... up with innovative ways to cover the uninsured. States that make basic private health insurance available ... need to help small businesses through Association Health Plans. (Applause.) We need to reduce costs and ...
- Protecting women and children Numbers underscore Virginia's commitment 24 Jul 2008 10:55 GMT
... announcement of a record enrollment in Virginia's health insurance programs for children and pregnant women is ... an initiative by Kaine to get more uninsured but eligible children enrolled in the Commonwealth's ... one can only wonder how low-income families without insurance are getting by. We commend Gov. Kaine ...
- Young adults live on financial brink: survey 24 Jul 2008 09:35 GMT
... Young adults live on financial brink: survey Young people are ... • • More than half have gone without health insurance at some point in the last five ...
- Insurers to cover drugstore clinic visits 24 Jul 2008 09:17 GMT
... Some of the state's largest health insurers say they will ... ailments. Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan have signed contracts with CVS Caremark, the ... ear infections, poison ivy, and minor burns. Without insurance, prices range from $59 to $69 at ...
- Universal health-care is no longer just a 'liberal' issue 24 Jul 2008 08:58 GMT
... One of those improvements is access. As many as 75 million Americans lack "adequate" health insurance, and many are flat-out uninsured. No matter how good a system, results will be compromised if patients' problems aren't addressed before ...
- Trade group launches national insurance education program 24 Jul 2008 08:57 GMT
... their inability to keep pace. A self-avowed uninsured graphic artist said the industry purposely makes it ... it's like to have inadequate or nonexistent health insurance coverage and what the industry could do ... Health Insurance Plans, a trade group representing health insurers. The initiative is aimed at gathering comments ...
- Lack of health insurance is costly 24 Jul 2008 08:20 GMT
... "/> "/> "/> Story Lack of health insurance is costly to Missourians A rising number of uninsured patients are going without necessary care and ... a revolving door of those with and without insurance. An estimated 1.46 million Missourians were uninsured ...
- S. Ariz. lawmakers do right by kids 24 Jul 2008 08:14 GMT
... Many Arizona leaders have shown that being uninsured is a children's health problem they are ready to cure. ... "yes" for a new budget that keeps health coverage strong for children in working families. These ... Arizona increase its rate of children with health insurance from 74 percent in 1997 to 83 ...
- America's Health Insurance Plans launches campaign in Ohio for nationwide universal health 24 Jul 2008 08:07 GMT
... a public meeting in Columbus, Ohio, between uninsured residents and AHIP President and CEO Karen ... to a release, AHIP's plan includes expanding Medicaid to all low-income, uninsured U.S. residents; expanding SCHIP to all ...
- Guest column - Civic, health care leaders support AARP's 24 Jul 2008 07:19 GMT
... support AARP's With the ranks of the uninsured continuing to increase each year in Oceana County ... that more people have access to affordable health coverage. The AARP project, “Divided We Fail,” dovetails ... in 10 Michigan citizens do not have health insurance. Nationally, fewer than half [47 percent] of ...
- Cover America Uncovering Health-Care Horrors 24 Jul 2008 06:59 GMT
... ranking for having the highest percentage of uninsured residents. Since setting out from New York in ... letters from people eager to voice their health insurance woes – and many of those have ... Integrated Eligibility Redesign System – that handles Medicaid cases. "I'm concerned this recent proposal could ...
- Free medical clinic cuts hours in wake of budget shortfall 24 Jul 2008 06:08 GMT
... A $150,000 budget shortfall has forced Volunteers in Medicine -- ... clinic, which treats low-income people and those without health insurance, relies on the community to survive, Maxwell ...
- Indian River Medical Center to reduce budget, positions 24 Jul 2008 05:37 GMT
... will maintain our quality of patient care." Susi attributed the hospital's budget deficit to Medicaid and Medicare not keeping up with inflation, a rise in the uninsured using the hospital for care and the skyrocketing cost of medical supplies and equipment. "More ...
- Obstacles for Obama in Meeting Health Care Goal 24 Jul 2008 05:21 GMT
... presumptive Democratic nominee, has promised that his health plan will be in place “by the end of my first term ... aspires to cover the country's 47 million uninsured by requiring insurers to accept all comers, regardless of ...
- The health care reform slugfest begins. 24 Jul 2008 04:32 GMT
... (which, if successful, might wipe out private health insurance altogether) or to regulate health insurers so closely that health insurance would become ... grown well beyond the problem of the uninsured; today even the insured are constantly discovering that their ...
- Health Records for the Poor Driven by the Indigent Care Collaboration 24 Jul 2008 04:29 GMT
... to a policy adviser for the State Medicaid Office. Kitchen now leads the ICC, a ... data for more than 700,000 low-income and uninsured patients. "We call them a shared health history ... via electronic interfaces, and the database is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act-compliant, she said. The ...
- ILLEGAL RX? BARACK OBJECTS 24 Jul 2008 04:29 GMT
... we criticized Barack Obama's plan to "give health insurance to 47 million Americans who are now without coverage." We ... is his pledge to cover 47 million uninsured people who live in the United States. The fact ...
- High costs of healthy people 24 Jul 2008 04:25 GMT
... from prevention savings to pay for the uninsured." Author of the book "Health Care Half Truths," ... employees' working years and pass it onto Medicare, when the taxpayers take over. A study reported in The ...
- Uninsured at greater risk from cancer 24 Jul 2008 02:17 GMT
... finds substantial evidence that lack of adequate health insurance coverage is associated with less access to ... Cancer Utilization and Outcomes”, also finds the uninsured are less likely to receive recommended cancer ... The problems are significantly worse for those without insurance. Cancer patients having no insurance or inadequate ...
- Presidential candidates differ widely on health care proposals 24 Jul 2008 02:16 GMT
... is broken, and 47 million Americans lack health insurance. Beyond that, the presidential candidates differ greatly ... care system. Their plans Obama proposes universal health coverage by giving individuals who aren't covered several ... new public health insurance program for the uninsured. The policies would be similar to those provided to ...
- Island clinic cuts hours in wake of budget shortfall 24 Jul 2008 00:26 GMT
... A $150,000 budget shortfall has forced Volunteers in Medicine — ... clinic, which treats low-income people and those without health insurance, relies on the community to survive, Maxwell ...
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