The News Review:
- When a Job Disappears So Does the Health Care
- Editorial: How to make children’s health care a priority in California
- Election offers hope for affordable health care
- Health insurance after layoff
- ‘I was trying to do the right thing’ Leaving teen in Nebraska a …
- Will a child’s death change dental policy?
When a Job Disappears So Does the Health Care
New York Times United States
Darling with her son Colt and daughter Kathryn. Darling lost her health benefits when a cookie factory closed.
Editorial: How to make children’s health care a priority in California
San Jose Mercury News USA
Scoring a breakthrough on children’s health insurance by the end of April would be a huge step in the right direction and a great down payment on Steinberg’s leadership record. Of the state’s 10 million kids 800000 now are uninsured. Basic health care for every child should be considered as essential as public education. It won’t be easy to accomplish given the state’s huge budget shortfall immigration issues and the resistance of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger who essentially has held children’s coverage hostage to his broader goal of comprehensive health care reform. But Steinberg’s strategy has the best chance of any that have been tried since Schwarzenegger took office. A key selling point is that Steinberg is not trying tap the state’s general fund which would be a nonstarter given an $11 billion deficit.
Election offers hope for affordable health care
Houston Chronicle United States
html We’ve just elected a new President and Congress and here in the Lone Star State our lawmakers convene in just a few short weeks. The question looms: Will these state and federal leaders take action to address some of our nation’s most serious ills? And what can we do as individuals to take personal responsibility for our health?Front and center among the most important issues facing Texas and America today has to be substantive reform of our health care system to ensure health care insurance is affordable and accessible to all. Pundits politicians and health care advocates alike have voiced in unison the need to address the health care crisis in our country. And the current economic downturn only exacerbates the problem of the uninsured. Hit by hard economic times Americans looking to tighten their pocketbooks often forgo preventive care visits and prescription medicines. We shouldn’t have to choose among gas food on the table and preventive health care.
Health insurance after layoff
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel WI
Families with household incomes above the cutoff have an option to buy relatively low-cost insurance for their children through the state. The cost is subsidized for families with incomes of up to 300% of the federal poverty level. Families with incomes above that pay the full cost: $1089 a year for each child. Affordable coverage For adults an individual health plan that covers major medical expenses might be an option. "Because there are so many plans available people may be surprised by the affordability" Assurant Health’s Guilbert said. For example a 25-year-old woman can get a policy with a $1500 deductible for $120 a month in Milwaukee according to eHealthInsurance a company that sells individual health insurance policies online. The cost is less for a man of the same age.
Related from Insurancemonster: Health insurance after layoff
‘I was trying to do the right thing’ Leaving teen in Nebraska a …
Detroit Free Press United States
The child’s affidavit to Omaha police said he had luggage and $10. But there was no turning back. Nebraska law dictates the state take temporary custody of those safe haven children said Nebraska’s Department of Health and Human Services spokeswoman Jeanne Atkinson. Teri Martin said she then spent three days in a Nebraska hotel trying to communicate with her son through child welfare officials though NDHHS could not confirm that Friday. Out of concern for the safety of the Martins’ other children ages 3 5 and 11 the Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office filed a petition of neglect Oct. 16 and the state took temporary custody of the three plus the teen. While the Martins described a loving united family they said the eldest adopted out of foster care scared them.
Will a child’s death change dental policy?
Dayton Daily News OH
Sherrod Brown D-Ohio is co-sponsor of a bill aimed at preventing another Deamonte Driver tragedy. The bill would seek to establish a “dental home” for every child by increasing dental services in community health centers training more individuals in pediatric dentistry and offering tax incentives for dentists to treat children with Medicaid. “It’s pretty sad things have to get to that level before anybody pays attention to the issue” said Dr. Crall a California dentist and spokesman for the American Association of Pediatric Dentists who testified this year before Congress on the issue. “We’ve got hundreds of kids if not thousands showing up in ERs just waiting to be the next Deamonte somewhere.
