News For: Health Insurance Plans For StudentsNextStudent Rolls Out New Health Insurance Product Line for Students, Graduates, and Their Families In conjunction with one of its partners, NextStudent this week began offering affordable short-term health insurance plans for recent graduates and for those between jobs, as well as student health insurance plans that offer a lower-cost, more flexible alternative to some school and parent insurance plans. Economists Take Critical View of Health Plans WASHINGTON -- John McCain's health plan won't lower the ranks of the uninsured. Barack Obama's fails to curb the soaring cost of health care, meaning initial gains in helping more people buy health insurance would eventually be undermined. Nine carriers bid to offer Cover Florida health insurance Gov. Charlie Crist announced Thursday the state has received nine bid proposals from private health care insurance providers seeking to offer Cover Florida health insurance policies to Florida���s 3.8 million uninsured residents. Shreveport raising workers' health insurance costs Most Shreveport's 2,500 city workers and many retirees will see their health insurance costs go up by the end of the year. County residents left without health insurance CARLSBAD ��� A backlog of health insurance applications for Insure New Mexico has left 266 Eddy County residents without the health insurance coverage they expected to receive. YSU's hidden health insurance For the past two years, Youngstown State University has offered students health insurance coverage from the Canton-based provider, Aultra Administrative Group. This plan is serviced through the Victor H. Buck and Guy G. Latessa Insurance Agencies. Reports criticize Obama, McCain health plans Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's health care plan would cost too much and create more regulation, while Republican John McCain's plan would leave 60 million Americans without health insurance and reduce coverage, experts said on Tuesday. 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 CAT Says It Will Appeal Health Insurance Decision Caterpillar says it will appeal a retiree health insurance decision. A federal judge in Tennessee ruled that Cat must stop deducting health insurance premiums of some of its retirees and spouses. 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. |

