10/12/2008 News For: Health Insurance Troy IlState's health insurance enrollees up 9 percent HONOLULU _ The number of Hawaii residents receiving free health insurance from the state rose 9.1 percent in the past two months. State officials say the number could climb further as the economy deteriorates. 50,000 in county had no health insurance Nearly 50,000 people under the age of 65 living in Anne Arundel County in 2005 did not have health insurance, giving it one of the lowest percentages of uninsured populations in the state, according to new figures released from the Census Bureau. Employees reject state health insurance plan Braintree employees have turned down the opportunity to participate in a state-run health insurance plan starting in the summer of 2009. Health insurance coverage dwindling The Carolinas are losing employer-based health insurance at a faster rate than nearly any other state in the country, according to a study released Thursday. Nationally, the health insurance that covers most Americans has declined for seven years in a row, according to the Washington-based Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan, nonprofit that studies issues affecting working families. About ... Health care reform remains in limbo Rendell's fight for coverage of more uninsured adults yet to allay legislators' fear: how to pay for it. When Gov. Ed Rendell first proposed an ambitious plan to expand subsidized health insurance to uninsured Pennsylvania adults, he wanted the state to step into a void left by the federal government's failure to act. 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. My Yahoo! Years, Part 2: Health Insurance and Workers Rights Without national health insurance, companies like Yahoo! use health insurance to chill free speech. You might ask why I stayed so long. For a while, it was that I believed in Yahoo! as a brand and as a company and then later, I just needed to have health insurance. Health insurance was later used as a bargaining chip during the layoffs. In this respect, Yahoo! wasn?t unusual, but it does point ... Elizabeth Edwards Speaks To College Students On Health Care With millions of Americans lacking health insurance, healthcare reform has emerged as an important issue in the 2008 presidential campaign. 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. Initiative 155, the Healthy Montana Kids plan, seeks to set aside an estimated $22 million in state funding each year t ... 21% in Az lacked health insurance in '05, Census shows PHOENIX - About 1 in 5 Arizonans overall and 1 in 3 Hispanic residents lacked health insurance in 2005, according to estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau. Only five states had higher overall rates for uninsured residents. |

