Children losing health insurance
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Though Washington was once a national leader in providing medical insurance for children, the state&#39;s youngest citizens are losing health coverage at an alarming rate, according to a report released yesterday that calls for Gov.
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Though Michigan children are healthier, black and Hispanic children are much more likely to be uninsured, in poor health and struggling to access care, according to a report released today.
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Nearly six in 10 eligible children whose parents applied for Medicaid in Virginia went without health care for weeks or months because of a new federal rule intended to prevent undocumented immigrants from receiving coverage, according to a state survey of 800 low-income families.
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A US watchdog group warned Thursday that six states face cutbacks in health insurance for uninsured, low-income children next year unless Congress acts.
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The Bush administration, engaged in a battle with Congress over whether a popular children's health insurance program should be expanded, has announced new policies that will make it harder for states to insure all but the lowest-income children.
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When parents and doctors cannot agree over the treatment children should receive, it is left to the courts to decide what route to take.
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The U.S. poverty rate declined 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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About 47 percent of parents in families earning less than $40,000 a year are offered health insurance through their employers &#151; a 9 percent drop during the past decade.
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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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As Congress edges closer to renewing a health insurance program for children, state officials have made it clear that they have a much different vision for the program's future than the Bush administration.
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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 ballooning cost of cancer treatment offers an example of how difficult it may be to rein in the nationâs runaway health care spending.
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The University of Maryland Dental School and an insurance company have partnered to provide low-income children with more access to dental care. The action comes six months after a 12-year-old Prince George's boy died from a tooth infection.
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WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration said Wednesday it will shift up to $660 million next year to keep children from losing government-paid health insurance.
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A growing number of public universities are requiring that students have health insurance before they step into the classroom, a move aimed at saving the uninsured from huge bills and college hospitals from getting stuck with the cost.
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This week's votes on a children's health program go to a key issue in next year's elections: How much should the government spend to insure families with modest but not poverty-level incomes?
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Just under 44 million Americans had no health insurance in 2006, according to a survey by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released on Monday.