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Congress advances new law expanding children's health insurance program
Some 4 million more children would bring the total to more than 11 million covered In a move toward health coverage for all Americans, the Senate voted Thursday to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to include some 4.1 million uninsured children. The…
Author: Christian Science Monitor
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Atlantic’s Health Equity Champions
Our grantees have led the way to fairer and better health care around the world. Meet some of them. Photo: Magnum Foundation One of the best things about working at The Atlantic Philanthropies is that we have the privilege of supporting extraordinary leaders and organizations to advance opportunity,…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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College Health Plan Standards Will Improve With the Rest of Health Care
By Sara Jerving College health plans vary in their quality and cost. In the past, federal and state laws have inconsistently regulated college health plans and have failed to require a basic baseline of coverage, rendering many of them insufficient. Moreover, these plans frequently discriminate…
Author: The Nation
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Study: Parents can't always afford health insurance for kids
by ALIZA MARCUS More than a fourth of uninsured children in the United States have a parent with health coverage, according to a study whose authors said it shows private insurance is too expensive for many working families. The insured parents of kids without coverage…
Author: Bloomberg News
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Increasing the Civic Engagement of Third Age Health Professionals
Taking Action From its inception AHI has worked to build a sustainable platform for public dialogue about a quality system in which every American is assured equitable and affordable access to basic health care. To do that we designed and successfully tested two central platform…
Author: American Health Initiatives
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Clean Bills of health?
by Anso Thom TWO Bills recently tabled in parliament are set to shake up the private hospital industry and centralise decision-making over hospital tariffs as well as the regulation of new medicines and scientific trials within the health minister’s office. The National Health Amendment Bill…
Author: Sunday Tribune (South Africa)
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I-155 seeks to expand kids' health insurance
by AMY BETH HANSON Montana voters are being asked to support a measure to fund health insurance for up to an additional 30,000 children. Initiative 155, the Healthy Montana Kids plan, seeks to set aside an estimated $22 million in state funding each year to…
Author: The Associated Press State & Local Wire
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Reform of Health Care Has New Ally; National Coalition to Put $40 Million; Behind Advocacy
By GUY BOULTON An array of unions and liberal activist groups in Wisconsin have joined a national coalition that plans to spend $40 million to push for health care reform, particularly universal coverage, in the coming election. The Health Care for America Now coalition, a…
Author: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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Affordable Health Care for All Is Within Grasp Now – If We All Rise to the Moment
President Obama’s speech to a joint session of Congress Wednesday night was a critical turning point in the fight to achieve quality, affordable health care for all Americans. Reform is within reach if we stay involved, work together and make our voices heard over the…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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The State of Adolescent Health Services: How the System Fails Young People
In the United States, we are about to engage in a potentially historic debate about long-overdue reform of our inadequate health care system, and big change may be on the way. That is exactly what we need because our current system is failing the very…
Author: Gara LaMarche