Health groups work for kid's insurance
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Groups representing most facets of the nation's health care system are lining up in support of a large spending increase for a popular children's insurance program.
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The increasing cost of health insurance is putting coverage out of reach for many small to midsize companies and their workers, even though the rise in premiums this year was the lowest increase in eight years.
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A doctor is leading a campaign aimed at requiring insurance companies to fund programs that would help people lose weight with exercise programs and diet counseling.
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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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Part-time workers, contractors, and early retirees who usually wouldn't qualify for corporate health insurance could get coverage under a plan unveiled yesterday by a consortium of dozens of large companies.
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The quality of the health care provided to millions of Americans improved last year across several dozen categories, including increased immunization rates among insured children.
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Roughly one out of seven children enrolled in the popular KidCare program as of this fall no longer has insurance coverage to see a doctor or dentist or get a prescription filled.
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President Bush called a popular childrenâs health insurance program âa step toward federalization of health care.â
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A group of the nationâs largest for-profit hospital chains plan to propose that individuals be required to have basic health coverage.
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Growing number of U.S. families beset by medical problems are exceeding lifetime benefits caps.
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They call them "frequent fliers" at Children's Hospital: families with children so sick they've spent weeks, even months, at the medical center. They've come for complicated treatments: chemo for cancer, heart surgery, kidney transplants. The list goes on.
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A growing number of children are taking combinations of powerful and even life-threatening medications to treat an array of problems.
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Consumers face what many health care experts describe as two distinct tracks of care for those lucky enough to have insurance through their employer.
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The government has unveiled standards for the healthcare of children and adolescents.
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People who must pay for insurance may now be a majority of the stateâs uninsured, and not all are rushing to get coverage.
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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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As political gridlock in Washington muddies the long-term funding outlook for the State Children's Health Insurance Program, some states are preparing contingency measures such as enrollment caps or cutting children from the rolls.