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Florida children without health insurance  Nearly 19 percent of Florida children do not have health insurance, the second highest percentage in the country.

Insurance battle ongoing  Attorney General Mike Cox continues to butt heads with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan over legislation in Lansing that would overhaul the insurance market for individual policy purchasers.

Now what? Things to know if you're switching health care systems  It's health insurance re-enrollment time, and many Ozarkers who are changing health plans may have to find new physicians, specialists and a different hospital.

Innovis drops health plan  FARGO - Innovis Health in Fargo is notifying 1,500 patients that it will no longer honor Medicare Advantage health insurance plans as of April 1.

Report: Nine percent of state?s children uninsured  LITTLE ROCK ? An estimated 66,000, or 9.2 percent, of Arkansas? children are not covered by any form of health insurance, according to a report released Monday.

Cutting health care costs?  Sjon and Lakisha Fisher both have jobs that provide health insurance ? he works for Chrysler, and she?s an employee of Grant County.

Many continue to rely on ERs  The vast majority of Bay State residents have health insurance and a primary-care physician, but many are still relying on hospital emergency rooms for care that could have been handled less expensively by their family doctors, according to a new survey.

214,000 Ohio kids uninsured  More than 300,000 children in Ohio and Kentucky are without health insurance, according to a report issued this week by Families USA. The advocacy group said the 214,000 uninsured Ohio children between 2005 and 2007 are the 11th most of any state, with 7.4 percent of children uninsured.

Medicare?s Too Costly Private Plans  Congress must remove unjustified subsidies to inefficient private health insurance plans that have added to the cost and complexity of the Medicare program.

Book Reviews: 'Medical Miracles,' '7 Wheelchairs,' and 'The Sun and the Moon'  Two books - by Jacalyn Duffin and Gary Presley - explore medical miracles; while Matthew Goodman revisits a 19th-century newspaper hoax that took in readers of The Sun in New York.

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