Health insurance

Insurance Industry Getting Prospectus on New Charter Oak Health Plan; Joint RFP to be Issued for Charter Oak, HUSKY Plans in November

October 23, 2007 -- Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell today announced major progress in the state’s drive to provide Connecticut’s uninsured with access to health insurance, with the Charter Oak Health Plan taking shape as an affordable way to bring coverage to adults of all incomes.    » read more »

October 18, 2007 -- CONCORD - New Hampshire Governor John Lynch today issued the following statement regarding the U.S. House’s failure to override President Bush’s veto of reauthorization of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program:

“Ensuring children have access to quality, affordable health care is the smart thing to do and the moral thing to do. I am deeply disappointed in the failure to override the President’s veto of the reauthorization of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, despite the broad bipartisan support for this program.    » read more »

Roberts presents framework for comprehensive health care reform; calls on Rhode Islanders to join her in setting a bold, aggressive, proactive health care agenda

PROVIDENCE — Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts today announced her pledge that starting in the 2008 legislative session and continuing through the end of her term, she will aggressively pursue an agenda to ensure all Rhode Islanders have access to the highest quality health care at a cost they can afford.    » read more »

October 16, 2007 -- Santa Fe, NM — Today New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson sent a letter to Congressman Steve Pearce urging him to vote to override President Bush’s veto of this bipartisan legislation and reauthorize the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). This program currently covers 8,700 children in the state of New Mexico and an additional 11,000 children benefiting from some SCHIP funding. Representative Pearce is the only member of the New Mexico Congressional delegation to vote against the reauthorization of the children’s health care program (SCHIP).    » read more »

Overlooked Provisions in Insurance Bill Have Significant Impact on Military Families

October 15, 2007 -- NEW YORK – Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), the nation's first and largest nonpartisan organization for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, today urged Congress to override the President’s veto of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) reauthorization. SCHIP includes two little-known provisions which help the families of critically wounded troops.    » read more »

Oct 15, 2007 -- Chapel Hill, North Carolina – Senator John Edwards released the following statement on the debate in Washington over President Bush's veto of legislation to expand children's health insurance to cover 10 million kids:

"There's something wrong when in a country of our wealth, 47 million Americans don't have health care. There is something drastically wrong when 9 million American children—including nearly 50,000 in Iowa—don't have health care.    » read more »

October 15, 2007 -- Unlike traditional Medicare, which is run directly by the government, the new Medicare Part D prescription drug program depends on private insurers to provide drug coverage to Medicare beneficiaries. This reliance on private insurers has sparked a debate about the consequences of privatizing the delivery of Medicare services.    » read more »

(Published 10/14/07 in the Johnstown Tribune-Democrat)

October 14, 2007 -- BY U.S. REP. JOHN MURTHA

In the past seven years, President Bush has vetoed only four pieces of legislation, fewer than any president since James Garfield occupied the White House more than 125 years ago.

Yet this month, Bush chose to veto the bipartisan Children’s Health Insurance Bill, which would provide health insurance to 10 million low-income children, because, he said, it “moves our health-care system in the wrong direction.”

I disagree.    » read more »

Angela Buckelew, designated as Insure Oklahoma Spokesperson, kicks off statewide media campaign Oct. 15, 2007

(Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) - Great news announced today for Oklahoma small business owners (with 50 or fewer employees) trying to provide health insurance for their employees. If you don't already know about this health coverage premium subsidy - you will want to take the time to learn more...

In summary, these changes are:    » read more »

October 12, 2007 -- LANSING - In her weekly radio address, Michigan Governor Jennifer M. Granholm today urged citizens to ask the six Michigan congressmen who voted against the reauthorization and expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to override the president's veto when the House of Representatives holds a vote next week. The legislation would allow Michigan to extend health insurance to as many as 80,000 uninsured, low-income children in addition to the 55,000 already covered by Michigan's SCHIP program.    » read more »

Urges protection of children’s health insurance

October 11, 2007 -- Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius today spoke with Mike Leavitt, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to discuss the President’s veto of the reauthorization of the widely successful Children’s Health Insurance program for 6.6 million low income children. As it stands now the program will expire in November.    » read more »

NJ Senators, Congressmen Join With Children, Parents At Garfield Health Center in Call for Support of Children's Health Insurance Program

October 11, 2007 -- (WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ), Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Rep. Steve Rothman (D-NJ-09), Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ-08) and Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ-12) today called on President Bush and members of Congress to support extending health care coverage for children.    » read more »

Urges Passage Of Plan To Give Access To Affordable Health Insurance

Oct. 9, 2007 -- PUNXSUTAWNEY – Just one week after Cover All Pennsylvanians, the centerpiece of his “Prescription for Pennsylvania,” was introduced in the Legislature, Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell today kicked off a statewide “Tour to Insure” with a press conference in Punxsutawney. The five-day, nine-stop tour will highlight the need to lower health care costs and expand coverage. Jefferson County, the location of the kick-off event, has the 7th highest rate of uninsured adults in Pennsylvania.    » read more »

October 9, 2007 -- (MONTGOMERY) — Alabama Attorney General Troy King announced the conviction today of a Montgomery woman for identity theft. Kwantrice M. Thornton was arrested August 6 on a warrant brought by Attorney General King's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, and this morning she pleaded guilty as charged, in an information document filed with the Montgomery County Circuit Court.    » read more »

October 4, 2007 -- WASHINGTON -- NEA President Reg Weaver warns President Bush's veto of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) will leave millions of children without the medical attention they need to feel and do their best in school. SCHIP is designed to subsidize the cost of insurance for children whose families earn too much to qualify for Medicaid but too little to buy private health insurance. NEA is urging Congress to act quickly to override the president's veto.

The following statement can be attributed to NEA President Reg Weaver:    » read more »