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Counties with Thriving Small Businesses have Healthier Residents, LSU And Baylor Researchers Find
Counties and parishes with a greater concentration of small, locally-owned businesses have healthier populations — with lower rates of mortality, obesity and diabetes — than do those that rely on large companies with “absentee” owners,...
UK Government Issues Consultation Document on Use of Gender As a Risk Factor in Insurance
Following a ruling by the European Court of Justice in March, the Government has issued its promised consultation document on how insurers can use gender as a risk factor in the light of the judgment.
Employer Health Insurance Premiums Increased 50 Percent in Every State From 2003 to 2010
Premiums for employer-sponsored family health insurance increased by 50 percent from 2003 to 2010, and the annual amount that employees pay toward their insurance increased by 63 percent as businesses required employees to contribute a greater share,...
Strategy for Improving Health Care for Uninsured, Low-income, And Minorities in the US
A new set of strategies released by the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System could dramatically improve how the U.S. health care system serves vulnerable populations—those in the U.S. who are uninsured, low-income, or...
Insured And Still At Risk: Number of Underinsured Increased 80 Percent Between 2003 – 2010
The number of underinsured adults—those with health insurance all year, but also with very high medical expenses relative to their incomes—rose by 80 percent between 2003-2010, from 16 million to 29 million, according to a new Commonwealth Fund study...
Three Quarters of Those Who have Lost Jobs And Health Insurance are Skipping Needed Health Care
Nearly three-quarters (72%) of people who lost their health insurance when they lost their jobs over the last two years said that they skipped needed health care or did not fill prescriptions because of cost, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report....
Vietnamese Energy Insurance Company to Issue IPO
Vietnam’s Petrolimex Joint Stock Insurance Co., the insurance entity of Vietnam’s leading oil product importer, Vietnam National Petroleum Corporation, or Petrolimex, will shortly float a initial public offering stock option on the government’s...
Medicaid Increases Use of Health Care, Decreases Financial Strain, Improves Health
Researchers from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and Providence Health & Services have found that expanding low income adults’ access to Medicaid...
