10/12/2008 News For: Health Insurance When RetiredMore join state plan on health Nine communities and other municipal groups, including some in this area, have decided to join the state group health insurance plan this month, bringing to 23 the number that have taken the option in the two years since it was permitted. 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. Comprehensive Health Insurance Coverage Estimates by County Released The U.S. Census Bureau released the most extensive estimates it has ever published on county-level demographic characteristics of people with and without health insurance coverage. 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 ... Fewer Americans get health cover through employers Three million fewer Americans under the age of 65 received health insurance through employers in 2007 than in 2000, according to a report from the Economic Policy Institute in Washington. 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 ... Pine Belt lags state in health coverage A higher percentage of Pine Belt residents don't have health insurance compared to all Mississippians, according to data released this week by the U.S. Census Bureau. Rural counties lag in health coverage Study finds places like Hamilton County have more uninsured adults Health insurance is tough to get in rural New York.Nearly 30 percent of Hamilton County residents under 65 do not have health insurance, the worst rate in the state according to a report from the U.S. Census. New York's rural counties, in general, have the highest percentage of uninsured adults, according to a study released ... Humana Introduces New Individual Health Insurance Plans In Nevada LAS VEGAS----Humana today announced the introduction of a new portfolio of individual health insurance plans under its HumanaOne? brand in Nevada. Since 2007, Humana has introduced the individual health insurance coverage options in 25 other states , where they have been popular with consumers. Insurance studies planned CHICOPEE - Independent and internal studies analyzing the cost of providing health insurance to municipal employees and retirees will not be completed until next year. |

