Health Insurance Coverage

State goal is to get every adult, child in Iowa health insurance

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:45:16 -0800

Despite a number of efforts in recent years to expand health insurance coverage, including creation of the state children's health insurance program (HAWK-I), an estimated 44,000 children and almost 230,000 adults in Iowa still have no health insurance of any

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Health insurance advocates urge tax

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:14:49 -0800

A broad group of health advocates working for coverage of the nearly 600,000 Kentuckians without health insurance is joining the growing chorus for a higher tobacco tax. The group, known as Kentucky Voices for Health, is pushing for a higher cigarette tax to reduce smoking, particularly among youth and pregnant women, with some of the revenue used to improve the health of Kentuckians. Tonya

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Voluntary health insurance regulations march into effect

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:53:00 -0800

HA NOI New regulations on voluntary health insurance will officially come into force next Monday, according to the Health Ministry. People can now register to buy voluntary health insurance through Viet Nam Social Insurance s agent

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Health Insurance Mandate For Comprehensive Coverage Not 'Good Idea,' Opinion Piece States

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:48:09 -0800

"Requiring catastrophic coverage (our parents called it major medical) probably is smart," but a requirement that "everyone have comprehensive health insurance, covering preventive and routine care," is not "really a good idea," Betsy McCaughey, a former lieutenant governor of New York and an adjunct senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, writes in a Wall Street Journal opinion

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Abu Dhabi warning on health insurance

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 09:06:13 -0800

07 January 2008 Authorities in Abu Dhabi have warned that firms that fail to renew health insurance policies for their employees will be fined Dh300 for each employee per month until the renewal of the policy.The Health Authority in Abu Dhabi (HA-AD) told all government and private establishments and individuals to renew policies each year as stipulated in the Health Insurance Law. The HA-AD

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LIC to launch health insurance products in February 2008

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 15:42:51 -0800

Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) has received nod of the regulator, Insurance Regulatory Development Authority (IRDA), for its health insurance product 'LIC Health Plus', which is planning to launch by February

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Abu Dhabi mandates health insurance

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:45:56 -0800

Sultan Al Daheri, an official at the Health Authority Abu Dhabi, said all expatriates residing in Abu Dhabi, whether working or living there, are entitled to health insurance coverage under the Abu Dhabi Health Insurance Regulation Bill, reported Gulf News. He said sponsors and employers will be held personally liable for the cost of all healthcare services that are provided to persons on their

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Bush extends children's health insurance program

Sun, 30 Dec 2007 16:04:21 -0800

CRAWFORD, TEXAS Bush extends children's health plan President Bush on Saturday signed legislation that extends a popular children's health insurance program after twice beating back attempts to expand

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Study: Having insurance improves health

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 12:38:43 -0800

People without health insurance experience a dramatic improvement in their health once they become eligible for Medicare at age 65, a U.S. study reveals.This study provides strong evidence about how health improves when people gain insurance coverage, Dr. John Ayanian, senior author and professor of healthcare policy and medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, said

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Health Care Pushed to Fore By Calif. Vote

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 10:10:30 -0800

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21 -- The universal health insurance package that one chamber of California's legislature passed this week looks a lot like the one Massachusetts not only passed but put in place a year earlier: Every resident will be required to have insurance, every employer must pitch in, and...

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Checkup on Health Insurance

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:24:22 -0800

Describes health insurance types, choices, and terms, from a consumer perspective. By the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of ...

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Health Insurance Issue Sparks Fight Among Democrats, Bogs Down Schwarzenegger

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:08:08 -0800

PALO ALTO, Calif. The issue of requiring individuals to purchase health insurance is triggering an escalating fight between the top contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination even as the same question is bogging down Governor Schwarzenegger's plan to make sure all Californians are insured. "It's all connected and the connection here is a push for an individual mandate," a critic of

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One couple's descent into health-insurance hell

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:31:59 -0800

WASHINGTON (Medill News Service) -- Denise and Marvin Shaw did everything right. They both had good jobs, a nice home in Virginia and excellent health insurance through Denise's Fortune 500 employer. In the middle of a national health-care crisis, the Shaw's were secure and unafraid.

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Ad targets health insurance coverage

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 09:34:49 -0800

MASON CITY An advertisement running in Monday s Globe Gazette and nine other Iowa newspapers asserts that Vice President Dick Cheney would probably be dead if he had the same health insurance that many Americans

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Rendell s health initiatives go beyond smoking ban, insurance

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 09:18:50 -0800

By ROBERT SWIFT Harrisburg Bureau Chief HARRISBURG Gov. Ed Rendell s proposals to provide health insurance coverage to 800,000 uninsured adults and mandate a statewide indoor smoking ban grab the most attention in legislative debate over the future of health care in

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