The U.S. House of Representatives sustained the second veto of a bill that would have expanded the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). The new bill was intended to provide health insurance for roughly 4 million more children.
The vote was 260 to 152 on the House floor — 15 votes short of overriding the veto, […]
American Cancer Society - Uninsured Americans are less likely to get screened for cancer, more likely to be diagnosed with an advanced stage of the disease, and less likely to survive that diagnosis than their privately insured counterparts, according to a new American Cancer Society report examining the impact of health insurance status on cancer […]
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Georgia’s version of the State’s Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), PeachCare, faced major funding shortfalls after the federal funding expired last year. They were forced to stop taking on any more children in the program, and over 250,000 children were in danger of losing their coverage.
But now, the federal government will grant PeachCare $325 million […]
American Cancer Society - Uninsured Americans are less likely to get screened for cancer, more likely to be diagnosed with an advanced stage of the disease, and less likely to survive that diagnosis than their privately insured counterparts, according to a new American Cancer Society report examining the impact of health insurance status on cancer […]
Albert Hawkins, Texas’ Health and Human Services executive director, is pushing a plan to help uninsured residents purchase health insurance. His proposal would provide government subsidies to residents who can’t afford coverage on their own.
The subsidies would come from federal dollars currently compensating hospitals for the care of Medicaid patients and the uninsured. That money […]
American Cancer Society - Uninsured Americans are less likely to get screened for cancer, more likely to be diagnosed with an advanced stage of the disease, and less likely to survive that diagnosis than their privately insured counterparts, according to a new American Cancer Society report examining the impact of health insurance status on cancer […]
On Friday, the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights stated that a recently implemented Massachusetts law that makes the owning of health insurance mandatory for all state citizens fails to be a healthy model for California health reform.
Under the new Massachusetts law, by April 15, 2008, all residents have to prove on their tax returns […]
American Cancer Society - Uninsured Americans are less likely to get screened for cancer, more likely to be diagnosed with an advanced stage of the disease, and less likely to survive that diagnosis than their privately insured counterparts, according to a new American Cancer Society report examining the impact of health insurance status on cancer […]