State seeks solution to insurance connundrum
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The state government is scrambling for a solution to the medical malpractice insurance quandary. While everyone agrees a solution must be found, differences abound as to what that solution might be.
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There are relatively simple solutions to a looming problem.
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Officials have not reached agreement on either the breadth or the financing of a proposal to extend health coverage to all uninsured Californians.
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By Peter B. Lord  State legislators, concerned about decreasing insurance coverage and rising premiums for houses along Rhode Island's coastline, have scheduled a meeting for 4 p.m.
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State leaders vow to try to extend insurance coverage, though a Dec. 26 US court ruling complicates their efforts.
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Gov. Martin O'Malley and Democratic legislative leaders yesterday proposed providing health insurance to 100,000 poor uninsured adults in Maryland and subsidizing small businesses that offer coverage to their employees.
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Gov. Sonny Perdue and Republican legislative leaders agreed Tuesday to a temporary fix that would keep a health insurance program for poor children running in spite of dwindling federal funding.
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A Senate commission studying Maryland's medical malpractice crisis gave some ground yesterday on legal changes sought by Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R) and endorsed the creation of a state fund that would subsidize doctors' insurance costs for the next four years.
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WASHINGTON Aug. 19, 2004 - Insurers and drug makers are battling over how the government should set rules for insurers to use in deciding which medicines to cover in the Medicare prescription drug program.
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THE REGION A Cape Cod citizens group is urging Insurance Commissioner Nonnie S. Burnes to disavow her predecessor's approval last year of hefty increases in the home insurance rates of Massachusetts Fair Plan, the state's insurer of last resort. Attorney General Martha Coakley is arguing in a lawsuit that the increases approved by then-commissioner Julianne M. Bowler, including a 25 ...
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The state tried in recent weeks to soothe the ethnic minority's longtime grievances.
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State Insurance Commissioner Nonnie S. Burnes yesterday proposed rules for the introduction of competition into the state auto insurance market that would discourage or ban insurers from considering factors unrelated to a customer's driving history when setting rates.
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As of July 1, Massachusetts residents are required to buy health insurance, and many businesses must offer health insurance or pay a penalty. Globe reporter Jeffrey Krasner recently spoke with Jon Kingsdale , executive director of the Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority, about the implementation of healthcare reform and how businesses are responding to the challenge.
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MIAMI -- When Gov. Charlie Crist (R) took office a year ago, he quickly turned his attention to Florida's deepening hurricane insurance crisis.
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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 &#151; the state is expanding its role and, with reliance on the private sector, aiming to provide affordable health insurance for all 138,000 residents now without it.
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Problem of abandoned or storm-wrecked single-wides pushes states toward controversial fee on new units.
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Negotiation will protect consumers from higher prices, after a firm tries to hike license fees.