11/11/2008 News For: Health Insurance Male Nj4 Your Money: Buying Your Own Health Insurance The tough economy may be forcing you to cut back on your family's healthcare coverage, but it doesn't have to. CBS4's Gwen Belton shows you how you might benefit from a specific type of health insurance. Health care group to discuss uninsured SC children A national health care advocacy group says more than 12 percent of South Carolina children have no health insurance. Families USA said at a news conference Tuesday that 132,000 children were uninsured from 2005 through 2007 about 30 percent more than were without health insurance from 2003 through 2005. South Carolina legislators last year approved expanding a Medicaid program to provide health ... County health plan changes draw union opposition LISBON - Cost-saving changes in the county's employee health insurance plan has met with opposition from one group of employees, and other groups could follow. City Workers May Have to Pay More for Insurance var nopreviewimage = "1"; if nopreviewimage == ""{ document.write' '; document.write' '; document.write' '; } The woman keeping an eye on Bethlehem's bottom line says she knows how the city could save some big bucks. Controller Meg Holland is proposing increasing the amount of money city employees contribute to their health insurance. She says the move could save Bethlehem about ... Firms make workers pay more of health care costs Roger Caplan, a Howard County small business owner, has always picked up the tab for his employees? health care coverage. But his health insurance costs have soared more than 25 percent over the past two years. Ensuring the health of Tarrant County residents From rising medical costs, poor access to physicians, and a lack of adequate health insurance for nearly 16 percent of Americans 47 million in 2006, according to the U.S. Census, it?s no wonder that people consider our health care system broken. Eye on the pie column: Health care in Indiana lagging nation Toby Twotoes and I are having lunch. "I'm worried," Toby says. "About what?" I ask. "Health," he says. "Whose health?" I ask. "Everybody's," he says.? "Why?" I ask. "All during the election campaigns," he elaborates, "the candidates for president, governor and other offices talked and talked about health care, but they meant health insurance. They never really got around to discussing access and ... Racial health gap draws experts to Minnesota ST. PAUL, Minn. - National experts gather in Prior Lake this week to focus on a stubborn racial health gap in one of the nation's healthiest states. Minorities in Minnesota face greater odds of dying from violence, diabetes and heart disease and less chance of having health insurance. Anthem, St. Francis make progress in talks Anxious Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield insurance card carriers can now relax for the time being, after Anthem and St. Francis Hospital and Health Centers announced this week they would continue to negotiate a new contract and St. Francis would not cut off Anthem card holders. LSUHSC public health contributes to estimate of HPV-related cancers Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Professor Vivien Chen, Ph.D., Associate Professor Xiao Cheng Wu, M.D., Ph.D. and Assistant Professor Edward Peters, D.M.D., S.M., Sc.D., at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Public Health contributed five papers to the largest most comprehensive assessment of the burden of human papillomavirus-associated cancers in the United ... |

