The Annapolis, Md.-based Maryland Citizens’ Health Initiative announced it will join a national coalition of health groups with the mission to enroll uninsured people under the federal health care reform in 2014.

A federal program allowing people who lose their jobs to keep the employer-provided insurance expired Aug. 31 after three extensions, leaving millions of beneficiaries and their dependents uninsured.

A group of doctors and community leaders in Virginia delivered a signed petition to Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), discouraging him from pushing for cuts to Medicare and Medicaid as part of his efforts to resolve the federal debt ceiling debate.

More than 20% of America’s non-elderly population have a diagnosed pre-existing condition that insurers will have to cover under federal health care reform.

A bi-partisan bill sponsored by two Pennsylvania congressmen would provide exemptions from state-based waiting period requirements for children to enroll in the State’s Children’s Health Insurance Program.

The SCHIP program is …  Read →

A new report indicated that about 86.7 million Americans, which equates to one out of three people under the age of 65 years old, were without health insurance at some …  Read →