10/12/2008 News For: Careamerica Health InsuranceMore join state plan on health Nine communities and other municipal groups, including some in this area, have decided to join the state group health insurance plan this month, bringing to 23 the number that have taken the option in the two years since it was permitted. Health insurance and YOU Insurance expert Harsh Roongta on all you MUST know about health insurance policies. Elizabeth Edwards Speaks To College Students On Health Care With millions of Americans lacking health insurance, healthcare reform has emerged as an important issue in the 2008 presidential campaign. I-155 seeks to expand kids' health insurance HELENA - Montana voters are being asked to support a measure to fund health insurance for up to an additional 30,000 children. Initiative 155, the Healthy Montana Kids plan, seeks to set aside an estimated $22 million in state funding each year t ... 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 ... Pa. health-care battle shows states struggle alone HARRISBURG, Pa. - It has been nearly two years since Gov. Ed Rendell first proposed an ambitious plan to expand subsidized health insurance to uninsured Pennsylvania adults. Senators Propose Health Insurance Disclosure Bill A group of bipartisan senators proposed legislation Tuesday that would compel employers to tell employees what their health insurance costs -- a step, the senators said, toward getting a handle on the spiraling cost of medical care. Insurance costs worry York City official York City Business Administrator Michael O'Rourke laid out an uncertain future for the city's employee benefits situation on Thursday, requesting about $940,000 more for health insurance in 2009 than the city budgeted in 2008. Employers Look To Raise Out-Of-Pocket Costs For Employee Health Plans, Rather Than Increase Premiums With the open enrollment period for health insurance beginning and employee wages remaining static, many employers are hesitant to significantly increase health care premiums and instead are opting to increase the amount employees pay for out-of-pocket items such as deductibles and copayments, the Wall Street Journal reports. Census figures say 32% in Harris Co. lack health care The oft-quoted statistic that one in three Harris County residents lacks health insurance gained further credence this week with new county-by-county census figures. |




