11/29/2008 News For: Athena Health InsuranceBraintree seems increasingly unlikely to join state health insurance plan Braintree���s chance to join a state health insurance plan may finally be dead. The police union���s president, leading a group of several unions, said the town���s offer fell far short. But the mayor said Wednesday that he remains optimistic an agreement can be reached. 19,000 Alaska kids lack health insurance One out of 10 children in Alaska has no health insurance, according to a new report by a national organization for health care consumers. Hospital explores insurance alternative Administrators, boardmembers and committees at Sonoma Valley Hospital are exploring the feasibility of establishing an alternative health insurance program through its joint powers authority with three other hospital districts. Repor says more than 250,000 N.J. children lack health insurance More than a quarter million New Jersey children lack health insurance and that number is likely to grow as the economy deteriorates, a report released today predicted. Entitled "Left Behind," the report by Families USA, a national consumer health care... Uninsured Likely Organ Donors, But Not Recipients FRIDAY, Nov. 28 HealthDay News -- Americans without health insurance are about 20 times more likely to donate a liver or kidney for transplant than to receive one, a new study says. Weymouth employees vote to join state health insurance plan A committee of town employees has voted to join a state health insurance plan, the next-to-last step in a process to remove the town from the self-insured model it has used for decades. Workshop set for employee health insurance Business owners not previously able to afford health insurance for their employees have a new tool available to them ��� government subsidies for employee health insurance. Sliver of good news in kids��� health care A new report shows the number of children nationwide without health insurance declined in 2007, but 8.6 million remained uninsured, and that number is poised to rise dramatically as this year���s economic downturn takes its toll. Florida second in number of uninsured children Nearly 19 percent of Florida children do not have health insurance. ABQ Health Partners unveils new signs ABQ Health Partners is replacing its old Lovelace signs in the City Different for its one-year anniversary of becoming an independant physician-owned medical group. |

