Recent News & Comments About low income health insurance
Health Insurers Highlight Low-Income Medicare Advantage Enrollees
Minority, rural, and low-income Medicare beneficiaries make up a significant portion of people using plans targeted for spending cuts, according to a report released by the health insurance industry Thursday.
Clinics to offer whooping cough vaccines to low-income adults
A Longview medical office will begin dispensing whooping cough vaccines this week to low-income, uninsured adults ages 19 to 64.
Medtronic Foundation Supports New Initiative to Develop National Plans Addressing Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDS)
In a continued commitment to help reduce the global burden of noncommunicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes, the Medtronic Foundation is making a $435
Network Health Offers MassHealth Coverage Statewide
Network Health, LLC, a Massachusetts health plan that provides access to high-quality health care coverage for more than 200,000 Massachusetts residents with low and moderate incomes, announced today that eligible residents throughout western Massachusetts can now enroll in its Network Health Together® plan.
State could help cover federal health care 'no-man's land'
A low-income group under age 65 falls into a kind of no-man's land for affordable coverage. They earn too much to qualify for assistance through Medicaid, but not enough to afford even subsidized commercial insurance.
Michigan CO-OP Awarded $72 Million to Provide Health Insurance Options in 2014
LANSING, Mich., May 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) today announced its award of $72 million in financing for the new Michigan Consumers Healthcare CO-OP (MCHCO), ...
Insurers Must Improve Benefits for New Health Exchanges
Half the people who buy their own health insurance, rather than depend on an employer, are in plans that have fewer benefits than what the U.S. health-care law will require beginning in 2014, a study found.
Insurance adviser licensure opposed
Gov. Terry Branstad should veto a requirement in a budget bill mandating that advisers who help Iowans compare health insurance options be licensed, an advocacy group said in a letter to the governor on Tuesday.
Insurance For All - Germans Can't Fathom U.S. Aversion To Obama's Health Care Reform
In Germany, people are baffled by how hostile a country as religious as the United States can be to the principle of mandatory health-care insurance. Not even conservatives question the system, which businesspeople say gives Europe's largest economy a competitive advantage.
Free whooping cough vaccines at Snohomish Co. pharmacies
The Snohomish Health District has partnered with more than a dozen pharmacies to provide free or reduced whooping cough vaccines to low income families or those without health insurance.
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