A friend of mine got some data together and put it in a nice calculator for individuals to figure out how much money they'd have to pay with the McCain health tax.

Uninsured children in families earning between approximately $38,000 and $76,000 a year are about as likely to go without any health care as uninsured children in poorer families.

A proposal to implement a value-added tax for universal health insurance vouchers would also provide for significant decreases in other taxes, according to the authors of a commentary in the October 22/29 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on the Health of the Nation. They add that this plan would create incentives for cost-containment and health care quality.

New research to be published in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds parents often can’t afford to pay extra to cover their kids

The U.S. Census Bureau today released the most extensive estimates it has ever published on county-level demographic characteristics of people with and without health insurance coverage. Texas has the lowest rate of people without health insurance.

The New York Times reports on a recently announced change in Medicare’s policy that is likely to have far-reaching implications for practice of medical malpractice law. The largest insurer in the US will no longer pay bills resulting from what it deems “preventable” medical errors made by hospital employees on patients under their care.

Extending Medicare to include private hospitals could lower Australians' reliance on private health insurance and reduce waiting lists, a health economics expert says.

As the Census Bureau reports that California has the highest number of uninsured people, and Texas has the highest percentage of residents, a McCain adviser utters some remarkably strange analysis:

Number of people without health insurance coverage has decreased in 2007, but Census report shows that there are growing health insurance coverage problems.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced in a Press Release that, based on bids submitted by Medicare Part D plans, CMS estimates that the average monthly premium that Medicare beneficiaries will pay for standard Part D coverage in 2009 will be $28.

A study published in the medical journal Annals of Internal Medicine has found that the Millions of Americans with chronic disease like diabetes and high blood pressure are not getting adequate treatment because they are happen to be among the nation’s growing ranks of uninsured.

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