Half are eligible for free or low cost coverage under these programs.
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The WIC program, which covers 45 percent of infants across the country and more than 5 million children younger than 5, is "the single largest point of access to health services for low-income preschool children who are at the highest risk for low vaccination coverage, " according to the administration.
Without the waivers those companies would simply drop coverage for low wage employees leaving them with no coverage.
Other companies that have low interest-coverage ratios or short-lived reserves include Rutherford-Moran Oil Corp.
The story has received relatively low-key coverage in Pakistan.
In the meantime, for those Americans who can't get insurance today because they have pre-existing medical conditions, we will immediately offer low-cost coverage that will protect you against financial ruin if you become seriously ill.
Capping the tax deductions for expensive plans would give the federal government money to subsidize the coverage of low-income purchasers.
That is, tax relief for casualty losses generally are limited to those with the unfortunate confluence of poor insurance coverage, low adjusted gross income (AGI), and good documentation.
Officials there are working with the Obama administration on a plan that would expand coverage for low-income residents by channeling them not into Medicaid, but into private managed care plans.
The National Snow and Ice Data Center reported in early March that 2011 has tied with 2006 for the record low sea-ice coverage in the Arctic Ocean (in the satellite record).
Seizing opportunity in desperation, many financially weak, unlicensed, unscrupulous or even potentially criminal companies have formed to restore such coverage through Multiple Employer Welfare Arrangements (MEWA) or other contrived business structures, which claim to offer great coverage at low rates--often leaving claimants high and dry.
Accordingly, to get my business they will price insurance policies low and bury the actual coverage limitations in the small print.
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If coverage remains this low, the reforms may not prove politically durable since they are not creating a comprehensive system of income security in old age.
Liberal Democrats call the public option the only way to truly reform the health care system by ensuring people have access to affordable coverage and providing low-cost competition to private insurers.
In Nepal for example the official figure for access to clean water is 80% of the population, but when the functionality of water systems is taken into account the coverage falls as low as 53%.
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Yet four out of five of the newly insured receive low- or no-cost coverage from the government.
Critics complain that the scheme's total costs have been higher than expected, but the flip side has been a dramatic expansion of coverage at a relatively low cost per head.
The new measure, called a reconciliation bill, also would take additional steps to close a gap in Medicare prescription drug coverage and to help low- and middle-income Americans purchase health insurance through new insurance exchanges.
Inside it, ING was selling variable and fixed annuities, which are mutual funds and bond-like investments wrapped in life insurance that, in policies like ING's, cost several times more than low-cost alternatives and provide minimal coverage.
Coverage tends to split between a low-brow pop culture-based approach and a high-brow insidery perspective of politics (Politico does both).
But that young, healthy, low-income family that buys their own coverage and used to be able to add a child to their policy for a song?
While some employers will drop coverage because they have a very low-income workforce that can get insurance more cheaply through the new exchanges, other employers will start offering to avoid paying the penalties associated with the employer mandate or because of the subsidies offered to small employers.
The percentage of total cost of coverage paid by premiums varies from a low of 26% in New Mexico to 106% in West Virginia, with the bulk of states clustered in the 50-75% range.
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The lack of a public option concerns liberal Democrats, who say the Baucus proposal will make required health insurance coverage too expensive for some of the low- and middle-income families it is intended to help.
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Delta, at 27.1% availability in the study, says it has made major improvements in availability over the past year, driven largely by its low standing in the IdeaWorks research last year and coverage by this column.
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According to Arielle Levin Becker from The Connecticut Mirror, in 2010, Connecticut expanded coverage through a program called Medicaid for Low Income Adults (LIA) for adults without minor children, but enrollment has been much higher than anticipated.
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Those on a budget who can't get coverage through a parent or employer can buy low-cost, high-deductible, or catastrophic, policies that cover things like hospitalizations and offer access to doctors at discounted rates.
At Bogota's Rosario University media students have been discussing the coverage of the Northern Ireland talks and the fairly low profile reporting of the Havana discussions.
And there have been enough users and positive feedback from citizens that the city has already expanded the Wi-Fi coverage area and is planning on eventually providing free or low-cost wireless service across the entire city.
The legislation expands the Medicaid program for low-income Americans and provides subsidies for middle-income families getting coverage through a state health insurance exchange.
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