The News Review:
- A Public Plan for Health Insurance?
- Universal health coverage in spotlight at LA forum
- Emerging Capital Partners invests $47.7M in insurance group
- Study: Federal cigarette tax hike to cut $42 million out of …
- Families USA study finds 2.8 million without health insurance in NC
A Public Plan for Health Insurance?
New York Times
Many Republicans deride it as “government-run health care” and a step toward “socialized medicine. ” Democrats find the notion appealing — even of vital importance. A new public plan — to offer consumers greater choice keep the private plans honest and one can hope restrain the relentless growth in health care premiums and underlying medical costs — seems worth trying. Any new public plan would constitute only part of a much broader effort to provide coverage for 46 million Americans who currently are uninsured and many more who may soon join their ranks.
Universal health coverage in spotlight at LA forum
Los Angeles Times
But the presentation was light on details. Universal coverage — health insurance for all Americans — was widely touted but there was no discussion of how to achieve that goal. The forum the fifth in a series the White House organized around the country over the last month comes as senior Democrats on Capitol Hill move ahead on drafting legislation to be introduced later this spring to overhaul the nation’s healthcare system. The president and his congressional allies have pledged that the bill will expand coverage to some 46 million uninsured people rein in costs and improve the quality of care.
Emerging Capital Partners invests $47.7M in insurance group
Bizjournals.com
-based ECP an international private equity firm that invests in African industries said its $47. 7 million investment in la Nouvelle Societé Interafricaine d’Assurance Participations SA was made through the purchase of common shares.
Study: Federal cigarette tax hike to cut $42 million out of …
Bizjournals.com
01 per pack the group said. California smokers will send $581 million to the feds. The tax hike was instituted earlier this year by President Barack bama and Congress to pay for expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. SCHIP provides health coverage to uninsured children with the expansion covering more middle-class children without coverage. The Tax Foundation report also said Arizona could lose $42 million in state tax revenue as smokers either quit or move to untaxed avenues. An estimated 17000 packs will be purchased next year in Arizona according to the study. Arizona has a $2 per pack tax on cigarettes.
Families USA study finds 2.8 million without health insurance in NC
Bizjournals.com
8 million North Carolinians lacked health insurance at some point during the oast two years. 1 million didn’t have health insurance for six months or more. “The huge number of people without health coverage in North Carolina is worse than an epidemic” Ron Pollack Families USA executive director said in a statement. The report which was based on U. Census numbers as well as surveys from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality also says that the bulk of the uninsured nearly 80 percent came from working families which are definined as families in which at least one person has a job; that more than 55 percent were families with incomes below $42400; and that 23.
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