Comprehensive Health Insurance (Maine) In June of 2003, the Maine, USA Legislature passed a comprehensive health insurance plan, granting low-cost coverage available to all state residents by 2009. Through a semi-private agency, the state will provide coverage to uninsured residents, small businesses and municipalities and the self-employed.
Premiums are to be set on a sliding scale. For example, individuals making below $27,000 and families making below $55,000 will be eligible for reduced rates.
Health Care Health care or healthcare is an industry associated with the provision of medical care to individuals. It is one of the world's largest and fastest-growing professions, consuming over 10 percent of gross domestic product of most developed nations.
Ontario Health Insurance Plan The Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) is the government-run health plan for the Canadian province of Ontario.
Drug, Hospital, And Health Care Employees Union Drug, Hospital, and Health Care Employees Union is a labor union originally founded by Leon J. Davis for pharmacists and drug clerks in New York City in 1932. The union lead historic campaigns to improve pay and benefits for pharmacy workers, hospital employees and nurses. Its leaders were investigated as possible communists by the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1948. DHHCE, now part of the SEIU, has a history of progressive action for social justice and civil rights as well as culture and the arts.
Health Insurance Health insurance is a type of insurance whereby the insurer pays the medical costs of the insured if the insured becomes sick due to covered causes, or due to accidents. The insurer may be a private organization or a government agency. Market-based health care systems such as that in the United States rely on private medical insurance.
Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation The Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation is an organization which tests erotic actors for AIDS on a scheduled program. In the 1980s, an outbreak of AIDS led to a number of deaths of erotic actors. This led to the creation of the foundation, which helped set up a system in the U.S. adult film industry where erotic actors are tested for AIDS every 30 days. All sexual contact is logged, and positive test results result in all sexual contacts for the last three to six months being contacted and re-tested.
State Children'S Health Insurance Program The State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) is a national program in the United States designed for families who earn too much money to qualify for Medicaid, yet cannot afford to buy private insurance. The program was created to address the growing problem of children in the United States without health insurance. At its creation in 1997, SCHIP was the largest expansion of health insurance coverage for children in the United States since Medicaid began in the 1960s.
Canadian And American Health Care Systems Compared The comparison of the health care systems of Canada and the United States is of great importance to both nations. The very different methods of delivering health care allows citizens and politicians to look to the other side of the border for alternatives. In Canada the United States is used as a model and as a warning against increasing private sector involvement in health care. In the United States, meanwhile, Canada's monopsonistic health system is seen by different sides of the ideological spectrum as either a model to be followed or avoided.
Two-Tier Health Care Two-tier health care is a form of national health care system that is used in most developed countries. It is a system in which a guaranteed public health care system exists, but where a private system operates in parallel. The private system has the benefit of shorter waiting times and more luxurious treatment, but costs far more than the public one for patients. Thus there are two tiers of health care, one for the public at large and another for those who are wealthy enough to pay for better care.
Managed Health Care In health care, managed health care is the idea that the service that is provided by a hospital or other group of clinics may be managed by an external company.
Managed health care companies: *Aetna Inc. *Coventry Health Care, Inc. *Health Net, Inc. *Humana, Inc. *Kaiser Permanente *Molina Healthcare, Inc. *PacifiCare Health Systems *UnitedHealth Group *WellCare Health Plans, Inc. *WellPoint, Inc.