To Promote Bills, Amputees Describe Insurance Travails
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Lorenzo Smith was hanging out with friends in his Suitland neighborhood after school one afternoon about two years ago. That's when the speeding car struck.
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If people doing work in a house are uninsured and they get hurt, the owner is responsible.
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Consumers face what many health care experts describe as two distinct tracks of care for those lucky enough to have insurance through their employer.
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The health insurer beats some estimates and raises others.
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People who must pay for insurance may now be a majority of the stateâs uninsured, and not all are rushing to get coverage.
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Senators are concerned that some insurance companies are using scare tactics and impressive-sounding credentials to sell complicated products to the elderly.
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Joseph Glazier has seen the cost of his phone service double this year and his utility bills could do the same. He cannot ride the bus for free anymore. Subsidized prescriptions for his ailing eyes and ears have long since stopped.
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About half of Massachusetts hospitals say they have adopted policies to waive charges for serious medical errors such as wrong-site surgery and harmful medication mistakes, and others say they plan to, amid growing resistance from government and health insurers to paying for poor outcomes.
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Responding to shabby treatment of wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, a group of senators moved on Wednesday to boost disability pay to those hurt in combat and improve care for brain injury.
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For some, they&#39;re an innovative and necessary reform for the ailing health care industry. For others, they&#39;re potentially ruinous for Americansâ health care coverage.
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By Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Feb. 14--There is a slope. And it is slippery.   Especially, it seems, regarding issues of public health.   Lawmakers in North Dakota and Minnesota have spent lots of time on health  proposals -- bills that protect us from ourselves.
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We have seen what a Republican administration has done with health insurance in the commonwealth. They have managed to take a reasonably good plan and replace it with a terribly poor plan for their own employees.
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The idea of making coverage compulsory to help reduce the number of uninsured Americans is gaining momentum, but questions remain.
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A growing number of Oregonians are getting stuck with unpaid doctors' bills in insurance fraud cases, and regulators caution that it's buyers beware in an insurance market increasingly beset by scams targeting small businesses and the elderly.
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Candidates in both parties are promising to work to cover more Americans without health insurance.
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A Christian ministry that helps its members pay one anotherâs medical bills won an important round in its legal battle with insurance regulators.
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When Robert Payne, 61, needed back surgery last year, he said he wasn't worried about how to pay for it. Payne, a self-employed architect in Richmond, pulled $5,500 -- the amount of his health insurance deductible for such procedures -- from a savings account he uses exclusively for medical expenses. His insurance covered the rest.