Md. Mom Aids Bid For Health Coverage
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A Maryland family caught in the partisan crossfire over a children's health-care bill in Congress is now stepping back into the divisive debate, advocating this time for state legislation that would expand coverage for adults.
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PORTLAND - When Tammi Keller had her daughter, she chose to breast-feed her because that was the healthiest thing she thought she could do for her baby.
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Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell on Wednesday urged lawmakers to back her initiative to help the state's lower-income residents pay for their health insurance and reduce the number of uninsured.
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Candidates in both parties are promising to work to cover more Americans without health insurance.
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Maryland lawmakers are drawing up ambitious proposals to provide medical insurance to hundreds of thousands of residents without coverage, stepping into the national debate over who should pay the soaring costs of health care.
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The bill that Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) signed into law this week to extend health coverage to an estimated 140,000 people puts Maryland among a growing group of states attempting to chip away at their soaring numbers of uninsured.
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In an attempt to raise the nation's historically low rate of breast-feeding, federal health officials commissioned an attention-grabbing advertising campaign a few years ago to convince mothers that their babies faced real health risks if they did not breast-feed. It featured striking photos of i...
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Teresa Heinz Kerry campaigned here and across the country all week outlining her husband&#39;s promise to offer health care to all children, to reduce insurance premiums and
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DES MOINES -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's sweeping health-care proposal, which she plans to unveil today, would require every American to carry health insurance and offer federal subsidies to help reduce the cost of coverage.
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House leaders unveiled an ambitious plan yesterday to extend health coverage to at least 250,000 of Maryland's uninsured, but it quickly touched off a fight over whether the state can afford so much new spending with a budget shortfall looming.
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A mother who had surgery to remove her "dead" unborn baby tells of her relief after he was born healthy.
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Elizabeth Edwards is determined to beat breast cancer because she made a promise to her children that she would. Sheâs in Washington now, having recently begun a 16-week regimen of chemotherapy.
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A Minnesota mom finds a way to send surplus milk to HIV/AIDS orphans in Africa
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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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Maryland's largest insurer of doctors will return to the state $84 million it has collected through a taxpayer-financed subsidy program to help pay malpractice premiums, Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) and state regulators announced yesterday.
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As Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former Democratic vice presidential hopeful John Edwards [related, bio], begins her fight against breast cancer, she can count on having the odds of recovery in her favor.
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With health care the top domestic issue among voters as the nation heads into the 2008 elections, the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease asked presidential candidates Tuesday to focus on ways to prevent, treat and manage chronic diseases that account for more than 75 cents of every dollar spent on health care.