News For: Health Insurance Plans For OhioNine carriers bid to offer Cover Florida health insurance Gov. Charlie Crist announced Thursday the receipt of nine bid proposals by private health care insurance providers seeking to offer Cover Florida health insurance policies to Florida���s 3.8 million uninsured individuals. Health insurance going up for Shreveport employees SHREVEPORT, La. -- Health insurance costs are going up for many city workers in Shreveport. City administrator Tom Dark says that premiums will go up by almost 17 percent. Health Insurance Subcommittee in operation NORTH ANDOVER ��� The town has watched health insurance spending increase by more than $2 million over the last few years, and it's ready to do something about it. Officials have formed a Health Insurance Subcommittee, made up of School Committee and Board of Selectmen members who will meet with union representatives and administrators to brainstorm ways to slow down or even shrink this annual ... Health panel: BOSTON -- Members of the state's health insurance board said that proposed additions to mandates for minimum health coverage will likely not be implemented by the original Jan. 1, 2009 timetable. However, the Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority moved closer to requiring health plans to provide prescription-drug coverage for City insurance pool deadline approaches PITTSFIELD ��� City officials and the Public Employees Committee representing 17 municipal unions have one more shot at Pittsfield joining the state's Group Insurance Commission ��� and saving millions in health insurance premiums. What are health insurance options after job loss? Q: I just lost my job. What are the best options for preserving some form of health insurance? General insurance union plans stir to popularise two schemes General Insurance Employees All India Association, the largest union of insurance employees in the public sector, is likely to launch a countrywide agitation to press for popularising two insurance schemes aimed at giving medical benefit to retired and financially weaker sections of the society. Studies Look At Hispanics' Access To U.S. Health Care System Three studies published online on Wednesday in the American Journal of Public Health look at how poverty, language and health insurance coverage affect access to care among foreign-born U.S. residents, particularly Hispanics, HealthDay/U.S. News & World Report reports. In the first study, C. Annette DuBard of University of North Carolina's Cecil G. What are health insurance options after job loss? Q: I just lost my job. What are the best options for preserving some form of health insurance? A: Don't confuse "best" with "affordable." One of the first lessons many unemployed people learn is how expensive health insurance really can be. Ohio Health Care Premiums 2nd To Worst A new study of health insurance costs has found Ohioans are paying increasing expenses that rank among the nations' worst. ideastream��'s rick jackson reports. |

