On July 2 the Utah State Children's Health Insurance Plan would again reopen enrollment that has been closed since Sept. 1, 2006. This occurs simultaneously Congress takes the first step to reauthorize the program.
All children in America need to have health care coverage. Together, SCHIP and Medicaid have been enormously successful, offering high-quality health insurance to children in Utah who or else would not have had coverage. Congress should move forward and reauthorize CHIP so every child in Utah could get the health coverage they require.
WASHINGTON - As Congress edges closer to renovating a health insurance plan for children, state officials have made it very clear that they have a much unlike vision for the children program's future than the Bush administration.
The Bush administration would like to come back the plan to its actual roots - children whose families receive too much for Medicaid but not more than twice the poverty level. Today, that doorsill is $41,300 for a family of four.
Healthcare Reform Act, due to take effect from July 1, employers with 11 or more full-time employees in Massachusetts should make a "Fair and affordable" contribution to the cost of health insurance policy for their offcie employees" or face fines. The new law phases in mechanics for employers to provide "a smorgasbord" of affordable health insurance alternatives. It as well needs employers with more than 11 full-time employees to provide so-called "125 plans.
Failure to obey with the new regulations could consequence in fines of up to $295 per full-time employee. The Massachusetts law reserves the right to lift fines if necessary.
More than 98,000 Minnesota adults aged 18 to 24 are withour medical coverage. State insurers attempting to change that.
Minnesotans ages 18 to 24 are almost three times more probably than other state residents are with our health care coverage. According to the state Department of Health, more than 98,200 Minnesotans in that age group do not have access health insurance. That's 19 percent of the college-aged group, when compared to 7.4 percent overall.