10/13/2008 News For: Dependent Health Insurance In MinnesotaNew health insurance option offered for small businesses Typically only larger businesses risk paying employee medical bills with their own money rather than buying health insurance. Major health care reform likely, says Kaiser's CEO George Halvorson, CEO of Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente, recently talked with the Portland Business Journal about health reform. The vertically integrated health system operates the second-largest health insurance plan in Oregon, with 468,603 members at the end of the second quarter, in addition to running Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Center in Clackamas and myriad outpatient clinics ... 50,000 in county had no health insurance The new Small Area Health Insurance Estimates released yesterday showed a little more than 11 percent of county residents went without health insurance that year, and most of them were living well below the poverty line. New law requires parity for mental health coverage Health insurance plans can no longer treat mental illnesses differently than physical problems when it comes to co-payments and coverage limits. Florida couple turns food talk into board game MIAMI -- Eric and Monica Ash moved to northwest Broward, Fla., from Alexandria, Va., in May with a newborn, a toddler and no regular paychecks to cover the mortgage or employers to subsidize the health insurance. Eric says they're living a dream. Health Insurance numbers released by census bureau It?s an important issue to many here in the east; health insurance. When it comes to who has it and who doesn?t, some counties here in the east are faring better than others. Health coverage dwindling INDIANAPOLIS -- A new report provides grist for a gubernatorial health policy debate Monday: Indiana fares better than most states when it comes to employer-provided health insurance, but the percentage of Hoosiers who are covered is dropping. Health insurance funds well placed, Roxon told Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon says she is not aware of any Australian health insurance funds with extensive exposure to the problems in international financial markets. 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. 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 ... |


