W.Va. improves in group's state health rankings - Charleston Daily Mail

A drop in the number of people without health insurance helped West Virginia improve its standing in an annual ranking of states based on the healthiness of their residents. The nonprofit United Health Foundation ranked West Virginia as the 39th ...

County should spread the word about health cards - Daily Local News

No comments posted. Chester County residents without health insurance got some encouraging news this week in the form of a new program that will discount the cost of prescription drugs for the uninsured. The new program, rolled out earlier this week ...

Patients flood free health clinics - Detroit News

MOUNT CLEMENS -- Christopher Thomas never had a reason to worry about health insurance: the plastics company where he worked as a janitor provided good benefits and a comfortable salary. That security ended about five years ago when the company ...

FACTBOX: Obama's ambitious healthcare plan - Reuters

(Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama has proposed an ambitious plan to reform U.S. healthcare and get insurance for at least some of the 47 million Americans who now lack it. Following are some facts about his healthcare proposals: -- A National ...

Get more for health dollars - News-Leader.com

If you fork over 2.3 trillion bucks, you'd expect to get something pretty good in return. The United States spends that much on health care annually -- more than any other country in the world -- and gets: - More than 40 million uninsured Americans ...