10/12/2008 News For: Health Insurance Which Covers FertilityHealth 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 insurance and YOU Insurance expert Harsh Roongta on all you MUST know about health insurance policies. 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. Analyst says organ donors should get lifelong medical insurance SINGAPORE: On the issue of legalising non?related living organ donation, one health policy analyst has suggested providing free medical insurance for organ donors and to only allow donations from Singaporeans for a start. Connecticut health insurance premiums increased 81 percent since 2000 HARTFORD ? A new report by a consumer group says family health insurance premiums in Connecticut increased 81 percent from 2000 to 2007, which has led to more people joining the ranks of the uninsured. 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. 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 ... Study: Health insurance bills outpace earnings The cost of health insurance premiums for Connecticut families whose coverage was provided through the workplace rose more than eight times faster than their earnings between 2000 and 2007, according to a new report. Some health insurance abbreviations FSA: Flexible spending account; pre-tax fund for medical expenses. HSA: Health savings account; tax-free fund, accompanied by a high-deductible health plan, generally set up through employee contributions otherwise paid as monthly premiums. HMO: Health maintenance organization; health plans in which people see network providers through a primary care physician. POS: Point of service plan; more ... 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. |

