Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Legislation has been approved by the Maryland Senate that will increase the government funded programs which will offer medical coverage for more than 800,000 people in Maryland. The Senate has voted 30-17 to pass this bill. This will help more adults to be eligible for Medicaid, extended insurance premium subsidies to smaller businesses and their staffs and the state-federal health insurance program will be given for the poor. When implemented fully, the expansion for the health care will cost about $600 million along with the federal matching funds. How quickly and to what extent the programs are implemented will depend on the funding.
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@ 1:05 AM
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Thursday, November 01, 2007
Almost 1.8 million veterans in America have no health insurances and half of them said they had no place to go if they are ill, a survey reported said this Tuesday. This study also showed that more than 25 percent of uninsured veterans said they could not come up with the money for prescriptions and more than 20 percent said they could not even buy eyeglasses. The researchers said, the major reason for this large number of uninsured veterans was the reduction of eligibility for health care provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs. And today in US there are almost 24 million veterans, according to the Veterans Affairs.
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@ 2:45 AM
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