News For: North Carolina Children health CoverageStudies Look At Hispanics' Access To U.S. Health Care System Three studies published online on Wednesday in the American Journal of Public Health look at how poverty, language and health insurance coverage affect access to care among foreign-born U.S. residents, particularly Hispanics, HealthDay/U.S. News & World Report reports. In the first study, C. Annette DuBard of University of North Carolina's Cecil G. North Carolina Insurance Investigator's Autopsy Inconclusive An autopsy says the body of a North Carolina insurance investigator that was found in South Carolina in May was so badly decomposed that medical examiners can't determine how she died. The autopsy House bill seeks wider health coverage for breast cancer MANILA, Philippines - Citing the high incidence of breast cancer in the country, a pending bill in the House of Representatives seeks to require health plans to expand coverage for detection and treatment of breast cancer. Oklahoma Insure program touted as model for health care coverage WASHINGTON ��� For Norman veterinarian Donald Russell, the Insure Oklahoma program hasn't been the disappointment some public officials have made it out to be. In fact, Russell said at a news conference Monday, giving his employees health insurance probably saved the life of a single mother who had been struggling with illness for a decade. "Overall, I really can't see anything bad about this ... State's children get a low health grade BATON ROUGE - Louisiana's children are perhaps the fourth most obese and overweight in the nation because they get little physical activity at home or in school, says a study released Monday by LSU's Pennington Biomedical Research Center. New health care policy allows parents' plans for children until age 30 Jobs may be hard to come by for young adults these days, but finding health insurance may have just gotten easier. Health coverage can vex laid-off workers I just lost my job, what are the best options for preserving some form of health insurance? Young Healthy Couple Can't Find Plan With Maternity Coverage Christopher Bishop of Chapel Hill, North Carolina is a small business owner with a wife in law school. "I wanted us to purchase health insurance that was more than just emergency insurance, and we paid about $250 a month," Bishop recalls. "When my wife, Alia, started law school, we moved from Austin, Texas to Chapel Hill, North Carolina in the middle of a heat wave. New ICMA/CIGNA Guide for Local Government Managers Focuses on Improving Community Health and Reducing Costs Every year, five percent of healthy employees become sick as a result of aging, unhealthy lifestyle choices, or other risk factors, according to CIGNA, one of the nation's leading health service companies. When added to the ranks of employees who already suffer from disease, this five percent drives the annual cost of health care coverage even higher. Employees to face greater burden of health care costs Despite a leveling off in health insurance premium hikes, the tough economy is forcing more than half the nation���s employers to shift more of the cost of health coverage to their workers in the coming year. |

