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 ...

One million California children without health insurance - Inland Newstoday

OAKLAND--The issues weakening California children’s well-being are also undermining the economic prosperity of the state as a whole. This is one of the key findings in a new study released Tuesday by Children Now, a leading nonpartisan, nonprofit ...

County pursues health care savings - Dubuque Telegraph Herald

The Dubuque County Board of Supervisors convened Monday with the county's Health Insurance Committee, searching for solutions to growing health costs for county employees. Committee members and the supervisors sifted through sheets of estimated ...

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 ...

Making health care accessible to the rich and the poor - Punch

Considering Nigeria’s enormous natural resources, its  health indices are embarrassing. The indices also negate the President Umaru Yar’Adua administration’s avowed commitment to the fundamental rights of Nigerians, as access to quality health ...