Health plans approved under Massachusetts’ health insurance mandate would be unaffordable for many citizens due to high out of pocket costs and no regulation of future rate increases, said the nonprofit nonpartisan Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR).
In US, different business groups are gathered to improve the health care quality in the state. The Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality was recognized as a pilot site to pioneer new methods of reporting on quality of care.
As states across the country contemplate health insurance coverage expansions and other changes to publicly-funded programs, a new Commonwealth Fund study cautions states to pay critical attention to meeting the health needs of children.
Employment-based health benefits are the most common form of health insurance for nonpoor, nonelderly (those below age 65) individuals and workers in the United States.
Children in the United States suffer from asthma more than any other chronic illness, and new research finds African-American children with the condition have a greater risk than others of experiencing severe symptoms that escalate into an emergency.
The number of adolescents undergoing bariatric surgery for weight loss more than tripled between 2000 and 2003, but bariatric surgery in adolescents remains an uncommonly performed procedure, and teens represent less than 1 percent of patients having such procedures, according to a report in the March issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
About one in four women older than 65 has been the victim of physical, sexual or psychological violence at the hands of a spouse or other intimate partner, according to a study done in two northwestern states.
A study published in the March 1 issue of the journal Sleep finds that, as opposed to treating insomnia, failure to treat it is much more costly.
In the absence of federal and state reform offering universal health care coverage, local coalitions can make a big difference for children without health insurance.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement calling on President Bush to support the efforts by Democrats to provide the states with the needed funds to cover the shortfalls for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP):