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More county residents lacking health insurance, report finds  A growing number of county residents dont have health insurance, the latest community health assessment says. In the past five years, 14,500 people were added to the rolls of the uninsured.

Massachusetts Health Insurance Connector Authority Board Votes To Proceed With Minimum Coverage Standards  The Massachusetts Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority board on Friday voted unanimously to proceed with new minimum standards for health coverage, but added exemptions for individuals, unions or employers who can prove that plans that have not been authorized by the state are comparable to the requirements, the Boston Globe reports.

Many Children Lack Health Insurance  Many children don?t have health insurance, even if their parents do, according to a new study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association.

An assessment of McCain's and Obama's health insurance proposals  They approach the problem of America's growing uninsured and underinsured populations in dramatically different ways. When it came to promoting his health insurance initiative, Sen. John McCain's timing seemed unfortunate.

W.Va. workers take hit on health-care premiums  CHARLESTON, W.Va. - West Virginia workers' health insurance premiums increased four times faster than their wages during the past eight years, according to a report released Wednesday.

Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report Highlights Coverage Of Recent Developments Related To Health Care In The ...  Summaries of several recent developments related to health care issues in the presidential election appear below.Economic Policy Institute report: The health care proposal announced by Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain Ariz. would prompt many employers to drop health insurance for employees, according to a report released recently by EPI, the Charleston Gazette reports.

Aetna CEO urges mandatory health care coverage  Americans should be required to buy health insurance, bringing healthier people into plans that will help bring down costs, the chairman of one of the nation's largest private insurance companies told a Detroit audience Tuesday.

PERSPECTIVE: Election 2008: Slowing the Growth of Health Care Costs -- Learning from International Experience   High health care expenditures and the growing number of people without health insurance set the United States apart from all other industrialized countries. The United States spends twice per capita ...

Opponent: Health insurance savings for state 'phantom'  Iowa leaders today agreed to eliminate one of two health insurance carriers for state employees despite concerns that thousands of workers would be left with far fewer options and the state will only see ?phantom savings.?

Value-added Tax Proposal To Reform US Health Care  In an article published in the October 22/29 issue of JAMA, authors argue that incentives for cost-containment and health care quality could be created by implementing a value-added tax for universal health insurance vouchers. Samuel Y. Sessions, M.D., J.D. Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, Calif. and Philip R. Lee, M.D.

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