About 45 million U.S. residents lack health insurance, but the "rest of us with health coverage are also uninsured" because those with coverage face "terrible, albeit more remote, health care risks," columnist Laurence Kotlikoff writes in a Boston Globe opinion piece. [click link for full article]
AFTER more than two decades of rising numbers of residents lacking health insurance, the trend in Hawaii is improving . Statistics released by the Census Bureau show the percentage of uninsured in Hawaii has dropped for the third consecutive year, and a new law ensuring coverage for all children in the state promises to lower the number even further.
Municipal workers may be joining the state's health insurance group within the next two years. The town will not take part in the statewide health insurance coalition this year, but a study committee headed by Assistant Town Administrator Jim Johnson will look at possibly joining next year.
BRISTOL, Tenn. – Glenn Ward said he spends $3,000 a month buying the prescription drugs needed to treat his wife’s Parkinson’s disease. He and other EMBARQ retirees learned last month they will lose their company-paid health insurance on Jan. 1.
There is no relief in site for what many businesses and consumers call their top concern the rising cost of health insurance.
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