Child Insurance Blog

Archive for January, 2009

24 January

Teachers Seek Help With Insurance – The Morning News

Teachers Seek Help With Insurance
The Morning News, AR - 16 hours ago
Rowden pays $8030 a year out of her pocket for family insurance coverage for herself, her husband and her college-age child. “It’s outrageous,” she said.


Canada.com
Obama Promotes Energy, Health Insurance in Stimulus
Bloomberg - 2 hours ago
It also would increase Medicaid help to low-income people who don’t have access to insurance. Obama also says he would expand the child tax credit.
Video: Obama Outlines Stimulus Plan in Address AssociatedPress
Obama recovery plan advancing through House panels The Associated Press
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Disabled children need state insurance
United Press International - 6 hours ago
In Tennessee and Arkansas, for example, children are ineligible for state health insurance if their family's household income exceeds the poverty level or

CA: Counties Need Not Pay for Foster Child’s Car Insurance
Metropolitan News-Enterprise, CA - 8 hours ago
A unanimous court concluded that car insurance is not essential to the care and supervision of foster children, and rejected a 17-year old foster child’s


New York Times
Doctor and Patient Building a Healthy Community, One Child at a Time
New York Times, United States - 5 hours ago
That’s 8.9 million American children who have no health insurance. Last year, there was a big plan to try to change those numbers.
Working, yes. Poor, no. Daily Press
Governor's medical coverage plan is a mixed bag Rocky Mountain News
Number of patients in need of free services rising Terre Haute Tribune Star
all 22 news articles

23 January

Working, yes. Poor, no. – Daily Press

Working, yes. Poor, no.
Daily Press, VA - Jan 23, 2009
Make no mistake: The children's health insurance bill passed by the House of Representatives last week is a down payment on universal health care.


New York Times
Building a Healthy Community, One Child at a Time
New York Times, United States - 4 hours ago
That’s 8.9 million American children who have no health insurance. Last year, there was a big plan to try to change those numbers.
Where Should the Money for Primary Care Come From? Wall Street Journal Blogs
Health service, job cuts don’t deter mission Bristol Bay Times
Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report Highlights Health Issues in Kaiser network.org
all 16 news articles

22 January

Insurance firms bet big on child cover – Times of India

Insurance firms bet big on child cover
Times of India, India - 13 hours ago
BANGALORE: Child insurance is one of the biggest growth areas for the insurance business in India today, driven by the rising cost of education and parents'

SESSION NOTEBOOK: Child health plan, Veterans Day bill
Grand Forks Herald, ND - 12 hours ago
As part of the program, the federal government pays 75 percent of the cost of providing children in low-income households with health insurance.

Doctor-Owned Hospitals Fare Poorly in Child Health Bill
Wall Street Journal - 7 hours ago
By BARBARA MARTINEZ A bill making its way through Congress to provide more low-income children with health-insurance coverage could spell financial trouble