Ga. to stop adding kids to health plan
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Georgia will stop enrolling new children in its health insurance program for low-income families because federal funds are running out, officials said Thursday.
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Douglas County Health and Social Services is offering flu vaccines for children ages 6 months to 18 years of age in high-risk priority groups.
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State officials have agreed to let the Mental Health and Mental Retardation Authority of Harris County serve fewer patients this year but said they will keep monthly tabs on the local agency
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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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Gov. Phil Bredesen announced Wednesday that the state plans to dissolve TennCare, cutting up to 430,000 people from the financially troubled supplemental Medicaid program barring a last-minute reprieve.
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In Tennessee, nearly a half-million people are warned they could lose their government-supported health care. In Maine, the move is in the opposite direction - the state is expanding its
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The American Academy of Pediatrics said children should be exposed to fewer ads for anti-impotence drugs and more for birth control, and in general need to be shielded from an advertising onslaught.
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Many Americans are in danger of losing their health insurance coverage due to the rapid increase of employer sponsored health insurance plans.
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Local physicians and health-care officials urge Licking County&#39;s healthy adults to forgo a flu vaccine this year so those most at risk -- people 65 or older, babies and patients
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Children can now stay on their parentsÂ health insurance plans well into their 20Âs in a growing number of states.
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com. Gov. Phil Bredesen Wednesday announced he was pulling the plug on the stateâs $7.8 billion TennCare program, which could result in a loss of insurance coverage for up to 430,000 Tennesseans.
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The White House said that President Bush would veto a bipartisan plan to expand the Childrenâs Health Insurance Program.
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First, Georgia's education chief tried to take the word "evolution" out of the state's science curriculum. Now a suburban Atlanta county is in federal court over textbook stickers that call evolution "a theory, not a fact." Some here worry that Georgia is making itself look like a bunch of rubes or, worse, discrediting its own students.
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Federal employees in part of Illinois now have the option of enrolling in a Catholic-run health insurance plan that does not cover abortion, contraceptives or fertility treatment.
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CRAWFORD, Texas  - President George W. Bush on Saturday signed into law a temporary extension of a popular health insurance program for children after months of deadlock with the Democratic-led Congress.
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The states, including New York, say that new rules for a federal health insurance program for poor children will force some out and leave others who would be eligible without coverage.
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New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer on Monday threatened to sue the federal government on charges that new regulations on children's health insurance violate an existing program that covers children from lower-income families.