10/12/2008 News For: Care Quotes Health InsuranceInmate health-care issues make budgeting difficult Lauderdale County Sheriff Ronnie Willis quickly acknowledges that budgeting for inmate health care is a hit-or-miss process."You don't ever know from year to year what to expect," the sheriff said.Law enforcement and the courts never know what medical issues might surface in a criminal suspect or defendant once they're placed in jail. Fewer Florida workers have health insurance The number of Floridians covered by health insurance provided through their employer continues its slide. Pennsylvania health care reform effort expires Health care reform in Pennsylvania appears dead. The Rendell administration has rejected Republicans' offer of funding that would add 14,000 people to adultBasic, the state program for people who can't afford health insurance, according to an administration spokeswoman. Study: NC children are losing health insurance A new report by the Washington-based Economic Policy Institute shows North Carolina workers are losing employer-based health insurance at a greater rate than all but one other U.S. state. Looking for Free or Low-cost Health Insurance? - It's no secret that accessing health care is a challenge for the 47 million Americans who are uninsured. Lack of health insurance forces many Americans to choose the health care they receive based on what they can afford, not what they actually need. Census: 388,000 in Utah without Health Insurance Census figures show that 388,000 people in Utah don't have health insurance. Those figures include about 100,000 more people than state agencies have estimated and 40,000 more than advocates for the uninsured have forecast in the worst-case scenario. Census figures released Wednesday showed that Daggett County has the highest percentage of uninsured residents at 27 percent in the state and ... Some health insurance abbreviations FSA: Flexible spending account; pre-tax fund for medical expenses. HSA: Health savings account; tax-free fund, accompanied by a high-deductible health plan, generally set up through employee contributions otherwise paid as monthly premiums. HMO: Health maintenance organization; health plans in which people see network providers through a primary care physician. POS: Point of service plan; more ... Seniors Feel Health Care Will Improve under Obama FORT WORTH, Texas----DSS Research, the largest research and analytics firm dedicated to the market information needs of health insurance organizations, released today the latest wave of its quarterly, national SeniorTrax? Survey of the 65 and over population. My Yahoo! Years, Part 2: Health Insurance and Workers Rights Without national health insurance, companies like Yahoo! use health insurance to chill free speech. You might ask why I stayed so long. For a while, it was that I believed in Yahoo! as a brand and as a company and then later, I just needed to have health insurance. Health insurance was later used as a bargaining chip during the layoffs. In this respect, Yahoo! wasn?t unusual, but it does point ... Study: Health insurance bills outpace earnings The cost of health insurance premiums for Connecticut families whose coverage was provided through the workplace rose more than eight times faster than their earnings between 2000 and 2007, according to a new report. |




