12/25/2008 News For: Brain Health InsuranceCity employees to see insurance relief City employees now have a one-time per year gap payment at their disposal to assist with the deductible amount on their health insurance. City officials approved the one-time payment of $750 during the last city council meeting. Boston Globe Examines Massachusetts Health Insurance Law As Model For National Health Overhaul Plan The Boston Globe on Friday examined how "[k]ey players in the debate over how to provide health care coverage for the nation's 47 million uninsured" residents believe that the Massachusetts health insurance law is "an important model for what Washington could do and how to get it done. Kennedy Cancer Doesn?t Dim Drive Toward Dream Health-Care Plan Dec. 22 -- Battling a deadly brain tumor, Senator Edward M. Kennedy is focusing on one last political goal: medical insurance for all Americans. Sainsbury's Travel Insurance Offers Award Winning Cover Sainsbury's Travel Insurance is urging winter holidaymakers to make sure that before they hit the slopes, they have their European Health Insurance Cards EHIC and comprehensive travel insurance. PRWeb Dec 24, 2008 Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/12/prweb1784804.htm Texas extends health coverage for children Texas officials are allowing more time for 34,000 children living in Hurricane Ike-affected areas to turn in their applications for Medicaid and other government health insurance programs. Rendell'S Top Health Care Aide To Step Down | The director of Gov. Ed Rendell's efforts to expand health insurance to low-income children and adults, help doctors pay their malpractice bills and modernize Pennsylvania's health care system is stepping down. Rendell?s top health care chief moving on HARRISBURG ? The director of Gov. Ed Rendell?s efforts to expand health insurance to low-income children and adults, help doctors pay their malpractice bills and modernize Pennsylvania?s health care system is stepping down. Pa. gov's top health care aide to leave HARRISBURG ? The director of Gov. Ed Rendell's efforts to expand health insurance to low-income children and adults and modernize Pennsylvania's health care system is stepping down. Ohio health program slow to reach children COLUMBUS - A health insurance program meant to help middle-income families who have youngsters with serious illnesses needs to be reworked to reach more people, officials said. Out of Work and out of Insurance With unemployment sharply on the rise, many people who find themselves out of a job also find that they are out a critical benefit: health insurance. ideastream? health reporter Gretchen Cuda examines what it's like to be one of the nations 45 million uninsured. |




