Medicaid Wait Rising for Va. Children, Study Says
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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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The number of American children with chronic health problems such as obesity, asthma and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder has soared in the past four decades, foreshadowing increases in adult disability and public health-care spending, researchers said yesterday.
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Congress's bid to renew a program for poor children revives debate over healthcare.
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WASHINGTON Aug. 26, 2004 - The number of Americans living in poverty increased by 1.3 million last year, while the ranks of the uninsured swelled by 1.4 million, the Census Bureau reported Thursday.
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RICHMOND, Dec. 5 -- Almost 19,000 people in Virginia are known to be living with HIV or AIDS and an additional 6,000 might not know they are infected, according to new state studies.
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The number of Americans living in poverty increased by 1.3 million last year, while the ranks of uninsured swelled by 1.4 million.
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WASHINGTON Â President Bush and other critics of a $35 billion spending increase for children's health insurance say they'll support expanding coverage to families of four making as much as $62,000 a year, but they want to limit states' ability to go beyond that level.
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As the nation struggles to improve medical and mental health care for military personnel returning from Afghanistan and Iraq, about 1.8 million  U.S. veterans under age 65 lack even basic health insurance or access to care at Veterans  Affairs hospitals, a new study has found.
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MONDAY, June 4 (HealthDay News) --  White kids are admitted to hospital after an emergency room visit at a greater rate than black or Hispanic kids, new research reveals.
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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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The figures from a survey released today are likely to throw more people into the ranks of the uninsured, analysts said.
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Some states are paying far higher prices than others for prescription drugs under the Medicaid program, but data that would help them get a better deal are kept confidential by the federal government, a new report says.
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Thousands of Medicaid recipients, in limbo for months as to whether they will lose health coverage, received another reprieve Thursday as lawyers for Medicaid and the governor&#39;s office
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NEW YORK  - U.S. children who live in expansive suburbs may start to pay for it with expansive waistlines, new research suggests.
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A mushrooming number of poor people who need medical care will push up the state&#39;s Medicaid costs another $119 million next fiscal year.
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Health insurance premiums for workers are rising around three times faster than their wages, and health costs eat up a quarter of earnings for more than 14 million Americans, according to a survey on Tuesday.
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Health insurance premiums for  workers are rising around three times faster than their wages,  and health costs eat up a quarter of earnings for more than 14  million Americans, according to a survey on Tuesday.