States May Reduce Number of Children In Insurance Plan
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As political gridlock in Washington muddies the long-term funding outlook for the State Children's Health Insurance Program, some states are preparing contingency measures such as enrollment caps or cutting children from the rolls.
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Congress probably will take its time in considering President Bush's plan for expanding health insurance coverage. Lawmakers, however, are moving more quickly to renew a program that now provides coverage to 6 million people, mostly children.
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In a growing number of states, children can now stay on their parentsÂ health insurance plans well into their 20Âs.
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Nearly half of Texas families who have lost coverage under the Children&#39;s Health Insurance Program have found other health insurance, a newly published surveyshows.
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The U.S. poverty rate fell for the first time this decade but more people are living without health insurance and the bulk of the nation's poor are children, government data released on Tuesday showed.
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Most of the 9 million uninsured children in the U.S. live in homes where at least one parent works full time. In more than one-quarter of the cases, there are two working parents.
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AUSTIN -- A review found almost half of the Texas youth who left the state&#39;s Children&#39;s Health Insurance Program when eligibility requirements were altered found coverage elsewhere.
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The modest spending increase that Congress approved for a popular children's health insurance program will maintain coverage for enrolees, but others may be out of luck
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The U.S. Senate on Tuesday approved legislation that would extend through March 2009 the State Children's Health Insurance Program that currently covers about 6.6 million poor children.
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For the second time in three months, President Bush yesterday vetoed legislation that would have expanded the State Children's Health Insurance program by $35 billion over five years and would have boosted its enrollment to about 10 million children. Bush cited the same reasons that led him to veto...
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AFTER EXTENDING healthcare coverage to more than 150,000 previously uninsured residents over the past year, Massachusetts health reform took a turn for the worse this month with the Patrick administration's proposal to limit the state's Free Care Pool.
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State plan would lower its status to 'threatened,' which could benefit boaters by reducing dock and speed limits.
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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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In an about-face, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts said it is scrapping a new policy that would have allowed owners of small businesses to contribute just one-third of the cost of their employees' health plan premiums.
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ATLANTA, Feb. 1 -- States should be prepared to keep children out of school for three months, businesses should be prepared to operate with skeleton workforces, children should be prepared to play mostly with their siblings, and parents should be prepared to lose income as they skip work and cobble...
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Some states are warning that hundreds of thousands of poor children could lose their health insurance if Congress doesn't act soon to come through with more money for the program.
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A small but growing number of American families beset by major medical problems are learning the hard way that simply having health insurance is sometimes not enough.