<div id="subtitle">Report: Continuing insurance can exceed amout of unemployment benefit for some families</div><div><p>Newly unemployed Americans will have to spend about 30 percent of their jobless benefits on average to pay for health insurance through their former employer, according to a new report.</p>< ...
<div><p>Most low-income people who lose their jobs are also without health insurance, a report released Friday concludes.</p><p>A study by the advocacy group Families USA says 54 percent of the nation's unemployed cannot afford private insurance and also are not covered under Medicaid.</p>< ...
<div id="subtitle">Health groups, union join for ad campaign to thank lawmakers for expanding health coverage</div><div><p>A variety of interest groups are joining to spend more than $10 million in television and newspaper ads that thank 83 lawmakers for expanding children's health insurance and ...
<div id="subtitle">Many groups seek to influence Congress as lawmakers try to develop health overhaul legislation</div><div><p>Patients and doctors. Small businesses and multinationals. Retirees, workers and insurance companies.</p><p>Some have more money and clout. All have something in common when it comes ...
<div><p>Patients and doctors. Small businesses and multinationals. Retirees, workers and insurance companies.</p><p>Some have more money and clout. All have something in common when it comes to overhauling health care: a huge stake in the outcome.</p><p>Their competing demands will help determine ...
<div id="subtitle">Report: Average family with health insurance pays $1,000 more in premiums to cover uninsured</div><div><p>The average family with health insurance shells out an extra $1,000 a year in premiums to pay for health care for the uninsured, a new report finds.</p> ...
<div id="subtitle">Insurance premiums cost $1,000 more per family to cover uninsured, study says</div><div><p>Health insurance premiums for an average family are $1,000 a year higher because of costs of health care for the uninsured, a new report finds.</p><p>And ...
<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. families with health insurance are paying an estimated $1,017 more in annual premiums to pay for healthcare for the uninsured, according to a report released on Thursday.</p><p>The report by Families USA, an influential healthcare reform advocacy group, said ...
<div id="subtitle">Undisclosed insurance premium surcharges hammer insured</div><div><p> There's been some debate about whether employer-supplied health benefits should be taxed. But Families USA, a consumer health organization, says most people who currently have health insurance are already paying a "hidden health tax." </p><p ...
<div id="subtitle">Studies point to need for universal health care and lower medical costs</div><div><p> Anyone who doubts the urgent need for Congress to approve a universal health care plan, while reining in medical costs so that families can stay financially afloat, should read ...
