http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Requiring individuals to pay a premium for public health insurance coverage can counteract the coverage effects of expanding eligibility for public health insurance programs to higher income families. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-premiums-health-affect-coverage.html Health Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:20:01 EST news279472727 A record number of U.S. children were covered by health insurance in 2011, mostly due to substantial increases in the enrollment rates of public insurance, according to new research from the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-children-health.html Health Tue, 05 Feb 2013 12:11:49 EST news279288703 Compared to the nation, a higher proportion of children in California are uninsured, one in every 10 children or more than 1.1 million in 2011. More of California's children have public health insurance and fewer through their parents' employer. And, over the past three years, a decade of advances in California children's public insurance enrollment has stalled, as coverage in Healthy Families (California's children's health insurance program) declined as a result of reductions in state government funding. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-higher-proportion-california-children-uninsured.html Health Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:31:43 EST news272140294 A new analysis has found that a substantial number of lung and colorectal cancer patients continue to smoke after being diagnosed. Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study provides valuable information on which cancer patients might need help to quit smoking. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-people-cancer.html Cancer Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:01 EST news246460581 In the fierce national debate over a new federal law that requires all Americans to have health insurance, it's widely assumed that private health insurance can do a better job than the public insurance funded by the U.S. government. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-health-infants-costly-private.html Health Thu, 08 Dec 2011 04:00:42 EST news242539177 The estimates of the population without health insurance in the United States remained unchanged in 2010, as compared to 2009, reflecting the counteracting effects of not only the sluggish economic recovery but also the preliminary benefits of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), says Timothy McBride, PhD, leading health economist and associate dean of public health at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-tug-of-war-economy-health-reform.html Health Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:03:44 EST news235213408 Families are increasingly relying on public health insurance plans to provide coverage for their children, a growing trend that researchers say is tied to job losses, coverage changes to private health insurance plans, and expanded access to public plans, according to new research from the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-families-shifting-private-health-children.html Health Wed, 27 Jul 2011 03:04:37 EST news230954663 Children with public insurance are 22 percent less likely to receive comprehensive primary care than those with private insurance, according to new research from the University of Michigan Medical School. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-children-health-comprehensive-primary.html Health Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:00:01 EST news229967143 Children and adolescents from states that had higher Medicaid payment levels to dentists between 2000 and 2008 were more likely to receive dental care, although children covered by Medicaid received dental care less often than children with private insurance, according to a study in the July 13 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-higher-medicaid-payments-dentists-dental.html Health Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:47:50 EST news229708056 Health insurance is not protecting Arizonans from having problems paying medical bills, and having bill problems is keeping families from getting needed medical care and prescription medicines, a new study has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-medical-debt.html Health Fri, 17 Jun 2011 09:38:50 EST news227522313