Archive for the ‘Health Insurance / Medical Insurance’ Category
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
A health overhaul provision meant to encourage healthier lifestyles by allowing companies to give insurance discounts to workers who meet certain milestones has found unlikely opposition, The (Wilmington, Del.,) News Journal reports...
Thursday, December 10th, 2009
Kaiser Health News staff writer Phil Galewitz writes about the findings of a new report. "Despite the economic downturn that's busting state budgets from Sacramento to Tallahassee, 26 states this year made it easier for low-income children, parents or pregnant women to get health coverage, according to a report released Tuesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation" (12/8). Read entire article...
Thursday, December 10th, 2009
Kaiser Health News staff writer Phil Galewitz writes about the findings of a new report. "Despite the economic downturn that's busting state budgets from Sacramento to Tallahassee, 26 states this year made it easier for low-income children, parents or pregnant women to get health coverage, according to a report released Tuesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation" (12/8). Read entire article...
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
PhillyBurbs.com examines the cost of caring for undocumented immigrants and whether it really is cheaper to exclude them under a health care overhaul. Despite widespread support for requiring people to prove their citizenship to receive government health benefits, PhillyBurbs.
Thursday, July 9th, 2009
"[E]xplicit indicators to measure progress in reducing heart diseases, stroke, diabetes, cancers and chronic respiratory diseases" are missing from the U.N.