10/12/2008 News For: Health Insurance Which Covers Ivf50,000 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. 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," ... Health coverage dwindling INDIANAPOLIS -- A new report provides grist for a gubernatorial health policy 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. 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 ... 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 ... More in El Paso lack health insurance EL PASO -- The number of El Pasoans without health insurance coverage rose by 3.3 percent between 2000 and 2005, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures released Thursday. Many Floridians lack health insurance, study says Almost one-third of people under 65 in Miami-Dade and one-fourth in Broward lacked health insurance in 2005, according to Census Bureau figures. Programs make more Marylanders eligible for insurance More residents will have the opportunity to receive health insurance through new state programs, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Secretary John Colmers said Thursday at the Allegany County Health Department. Law Firms Face Health Insurance Discrimination, Says Benefits Expert Jim Edholm Despite their white-collar stature, law firms may face "health insurance discrimination," says Jim Edholm, President, Business Benefits Insurance, a leading employee benefits planning firm based in Andover, Mass. |

