Poverty rate down but fewer have health insurance
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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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Older, less educated and lower-income women are less likely to get a mammogram even when their insurance pays for it, and those who go without mammograms are more likely not to be diagnosed with breast cancer until the disease has advanced, according to a
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FOR YEARS the state has provided free testing to detect breast or cervical cancer in low-income women. But until this year there were no funds to treat women who lacked insurance but were ineligible for Medicaid.
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AUSTIN - Almost half of the Texas children who left the state&#39;s health insurance program as a result of budget cuts found coverage elsewhere, about a third of them through Medicaid, according to a survey the Health and Human Services Commission released
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Household income crept higher and the poverty rate edged lower last year, the government said Tuesday, while the number of Americans without health insurance rose by 2.2 million to 47 million people.
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The US Census Bureau announced Thursday that the number of citizens living in poverty and without health insurance rose in 2003. The government agency says the poverty rate rose from 12.
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Rising obesity rates and the number of people without health insurance are placing a drag on health gains for the American population, according to the results of a survey released Monday.
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Jane Fumich and her team visit Cleveland's churches, public housing holiday parties and ward club meetings trying to give away the government's money &#151; without much success. A year after the Medicare overhaul became law, the Bush administration is struggling to get the poor signed up for a drug discount card that comes with &#36;1,200 in aid between now and 2006.
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The controversy over Medicaid coverage in Mississippi is calming down, but it is far from over. With benefits restored to 50,000 PLADs -- those recipients in Medicaid&#39;s poverty level aged and disabled category -- Gov.
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The federal government delivered a triple dose of negative economic news on poverty, income and health insurance on Thursday and showed that once again the average Arizona family had less money for things such as food, clothing and shelter.
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In the past four years, Americans have spent a growing portion of their paychecks on health care and for the most part gotten less for their money, according to government figures and several independent studies.
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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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An extra 1.3 million Americans slid into poverty in 2003 while health care cover also fell, official figures show.
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The nation's poverty rate dropped last year, the first significant decline since President Bush took office.
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The spending cuts include a reduction in benefits for about 340,000 people enrolled in a health insurance program for the working poor.
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Medicaid spending grew about  one-third from 2000 to 2003 as job losses and other economic  woes made more people eligible for the government-run health  insurance program for the poor, a new study said on Wednesday.
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Residents of poor neighborhoods are experiencing alarming rates of diabetes and steady increases in other chronic illnesses like heart disease, while other residents have seen slower increases or even declines.