10/12/2008 News For: Health Insurance When UnemployedPa. health-care battle shows states struggle alone 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. Report: Hoosier workers losing job-related insurance A new report says Indiana fares better than most states when it comes to employer-provided health insurance, but the percentage of Hoosiers who are covered is dropping. Children left behind on health care The Hulse family staggered into North Georgia in January with $630 and hope for better times. Gary Hulse had lost his plumbing job in Arkansas, and the family had lost their home there. After arriving in Georgia, Melissa Hulse applied for Medicaid health insurance coverage for her four children. Three were accepted. But Avery, who has juvenile diabetes, wasn't approved ? the result of ... 50,000 in county had no health insurance The new Small Area Health Insurance Estimates released yesterday showed a little more than 11 percent of county residents went without health insurance that year, and most of them were living well below the poverty line. Report: Ind. workers losing job-provided coverage INDIANAPOLIS ? A new report provides grist for a health policy political debate Monday: Indiana fares better than most states when it comes to employer-provided health insurance, but the percentage of Hoosiers who are covered is dropping. Business is health at walk-in clinics SALISBURY, Md. -- Dr. Charles Foloshade's practice had been open two years when a swell in patients with one-time, medical emergencies convinced him to expand. 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. Proposed Law To Secure Insurance For Ill Students On Sept. 25, the United States Senate approved Michelle's Law H.R. 2851, which would allow college students who have serious illnesses to take up to a year medical leave without being dropped by their parents' insurance. "If you get diagnosed with cancer as a college kid, the last thing you want to think about is choosing between losing your health insurance and getting the right treatment," ... Census: 388,000 in Utah without health insurance SALT LAKE CITY ? Census figures show that 388,000 people in Utah don?t have health insurance. Those figures include about 100,000 people more than state agencies have estimated and 40,000 more than advocates for the uninsured have forecast in the worst-case scenario. Insurance costs worry York City official York City Business Administrator Michael O'Rourke laid out an uncertain future for the city's employee benefits situation on Thursday, requesting about $940,000 more for health insurance in 2009 than the city budgeted in 2008. |

