The News Review:
- Healthcare in America: Right or privilege?
- New health plans drawing criticism
- Health care tops agenda for Kids Caucus
Healthcare in America: Right or privilege?
Examiner.com
Let’s start with the basics. You may be vaguely aware that your tax dollars support health care for the disadvantaged its called Medicaid. Your tax dollars also support Medicare health care for the elderly and disabled. The health care system is beginning to split at the seams I’ll explain.
New health plans drawing criticism
2TheAdvocate
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Health care tops agenda for Kids Caucus
The News Journal
The caucus an ad hoc group that focuses on education health and other topics that affect children is focusing on 13 legislative issues this session. Among them: Health insurance for children. The caucus is pushing legislation to remove the premium for the Delaware Children’s Health Insurance Program; to extend CHIP’s coverage to include families whose incomes fall at or under 200 percent of the federal poverty level; and to extend dental coverage to pregnant Medicaid recipients. Also pending are bills to require insurers to extend dental coverage to children with disabilities and to allow families who do not qualify for CHIP to buy into the program. Child care: Pending bills would continue fair-market studies to determine the cost of child care and require that state-reimbursed providers receive at least 75 percent of that cost within two years of the bill’s passage.
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