Private Health Care

More than $1.5 million in federal funds could help community health centers in Connecticut enroll the uninsured in affordable health insurance coverage, according to an announcement today. The funds are part of $150 million nationwide that will help...

WASHINGTON — As state leaders debate whether to expand their Medicaid programs next year under President Obama’s healthcare law, new research suggests the government insurance plan for the poor has only a mixed record of improving health....

Democrats in the Florida House brought lawmaking in the chamber to a halt this week after Republicans refused to endorse a bipartisan Senate plan to expand health care coverage to working poor. The Senate plan would use $51 billion in federal funds and...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Intrauterine devices are safe for teenagers, according to a new analysis of more than 90,000 women who used the long-term contraceptives. Researchers found less than 1 percent of all women developed serious complications...

TALLAHASSEE --  Further separating itself from the House, the Senate Monday stripped the House health care plan from HB 7169 and replaced  it with the Senate one that takes $51 billion from the federal government to insure roughly 1 million people. With...

TALLAHASSEE – As the Legislature heads to the final days of the 2013 session, hope is fading fast for a deal to expand health care to about 1 million of the state's poorest citizens. If no compromise is reached, roughly two-thirds of those people...

TALLAHASSEE – Lawmakers are pushing competing plans that next Jan. 1 would put about one in five Floridians in some sort of Medicaid-like health-insurance plan. Or not. Lawmakers have two weeks to resolve a battle over whether to draw down $51...

The Procon consumer agency in Sao Paulo, Brazil, has fined McDonald's 3.2 million reais ($1.6 million) for targeting children with its advertising and toys. The action against the Happy Meal adds fuel to a global debate about fast food and public health....

One of the most important decisions the Florida Legislature will make will be how to provide health care to those Floridians who are not covered by either Medicaid or a private health plan. The Florida House of Representatives and the Florida Senate are...

HARRISON, Ark. -- Arkansas will be the first state in the nation to use its federal Medicaid dollars to purchase private health insurance for tens of thousands of low-income people. Coats Chiropractic doesn't usually see low-income patients for...

It stands to reason that the longer a woman waits to start breast cancer treatment, the worse her prognosis. A new study of California women puts some hard numbers on the cost of delaying treatment – and finds that Latinas, African Americans and...

TALLAHASSEE – As the Florida Legislature heads into the final stretch of the 2013 session, it's do-or-die time for many of lawmakers' top priorities, including a controversial remedy for failing public schools and a state health care plan to...