No job, no health insurance: How to survive tough times - Atlanta Journal Constitution

Just two weeks after getting laid off from his job, Ashish Desai sprained his ankle and knee playing tennis. No paycheck and no health insurance meant no doctor for the Buckhead resident. Desai bandaged the injuries the best he could and left them to ...

Blue Shield settles with Insurance Department - San Francisco Business Journal

S.F. General wins $4M grant for elderly patient care Kaiser, Aetna, other health plans brace for downturn Blue Shield settles with Insurance Department Bay Area health care leaders offer prescription for reform Blue Shield of California will offer ...

Stark Reintroduces His Health Care Bill - Wall Street Journal

Rep. Pete Stark , on the first day of the new Congress, reintroduced his health care legislation without waiting for details from President-elect Barack Obama . Stark, the sometimes-prickly chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee’s health ...

Obama Pushes States to Cover More Unemployed - Wall Street Journal

WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama plans to offer states $7 billion as incentive to permanently change their unemployment-insurance laws to cover part-time workers and prevent other laid-off workers from falling through cracks in the coverage ...

S.F. to fight bias in health insurance costs - San Francisco Gate

Tuesday, December 30, 2008 In a practice known as gender rating, women in California pay up to 39 percent more than men for coverage in the individual insurance market, which is where people who aren't covered by employer plans or state health ...