12/25/2008 News For: Celtic Care medicare Health InsurancePa. 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. Health insurance waiting list a record State says 145,800 have no coverage, an all-time high. The number of Pennsylvania adults on a waiting list for state-subsidized health insurance has reached an all-time high, a state Insurance Department spokeswoman said this week. Henrico-based company sells new health-care plan As president of Henrico County-based Streamline Timberworks, T.J. Daly looks for ways to save his company money. This year he saved more than $50,000?28 percent?by changing the company?s health insurance to nHealth. ?There are three things that are unique about nHealth,? he said. ?They understand more than just insurance, they take out the complexity of managing [health-care costs] from both the ... Bill: Give lawmakers state insurance CHEYENNE -- A Cheyenne lawmaker is pushing a bill to give full health insurance benefits to all members of the state Legislature. Effort under way to help with kids' insurance A local organization is trying to ensure that Del Norte County children will not be without health insurance due to the state budget shortfall. Disabled workers face health-care gap WASHINGTON ? Master toolmaker John McClain built machine parts with details so small they couldn't be seen with the naked eye. Then a lump on his neck turned out to be cancer. Health care costs hamper Bradford budget (Editor?s note: This is the third in a series of stories The Era will publish ... Health insurance for City of Bradford employees made up almost 13 percent of the 2008 budget of $7.3 million, said city Mayor Tom Riel on Friday, adding the costs are rising for 2009. Too Sick To Work? No Health Care? Take A Number Master toolmaker John McClain built machine parts with details so small they couldn't be seen with the naked eye. Then a lump on his neck turned out to be cancer. Shalonda Frederick managed a bakery, and decorated cakes for special occasions. One day her face and hands, and her arms and legs, started clenching up. Then she fell off a ladder at work. It turned out to be multiple sclerosis. Insurers ask for stricter laws on hospital medical testing HA NOI ? Excessive health care claims are straining insurers, who are now calling for stricter laws, said Hoang Kien Thiet, director of the Viet Nam Social Insurance?s Voluntary Health Insurance Department. Public suggests health-care fixes for Obama CHEYENNE -- No one disagrees that the national health-care system is broken. Health insurance premiums doubled in the past eight years. Large medical bills contribute to half of bankruptcies and foreclosures. |




