The Iowa Legislature this year needs to include the “uninsured, undocumented immigrant child” in legislation “guaranteeing all eligible children health insurance by 2011,” Sen. Jack Hatch (D-Iowa), chair of the Senate Health %26amp; Human Services Budget committee, and Sen. Joe Bolkcom (D-Iowa), chair of the Senate Ways %26amp; Means Committee, write in a Des Moines [...]
About 95% of Iowa residents who live in rural areas have healthinsurance and feel they have adequate access to health care services,compared with 89% of residents who live in or near cities, according toa survey released Friday, the Des Moines Register reports.
The survey of 1,000 Iowa adults was conducted and funded by the Iowa [...]
Presidential candidates have debated their health care proposalsin preparation for the Iowa caucuses on Thursday, the ChicagoTribune reports (Pearson/Chase, Chicago Tribune,12/31/07).
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama(Ill.) on Monday at a Perry, Iowa, community center defended hisproposal against claims made by rival former Sen. John Edwards(D-N.C.). In response to claims by Edwards that Obama should notnegotiate [...]
The IowaSenate on Monday voted 42-6 to approve a bill (HF 2539) that would expand Hawk-Icoverage to tens of thousands more children, the DesMoines Register reports. Hawk-I is the state’s version of SCHIP. The legislation wouldincrease the income eligibility threshold from about $41,000 for a family offour to about $62,000.
The expansion would cost an [...]
Iowa Gov. Chet Culver (D)on Tuesday signed into law a bill (HF 2539) that provides an additional $25million over the next three years to extend coverage to more than 50,000uninsured Iowa children, the AP/ChicagoTribune reports. The law also sets the goalof establishing universal health coverage for all state residents within fiveyears. In addition, the law:
Allows [...]
A bill mandating nearly all Iowa children have health insurance is currently facing an uncertain future. Senate File (SF) 2390 would provide subsidies to families with annual incomes between 200 percent and 300 percent of the federal poverty level ($62,500 for a family of four).
The bill would require all parents to provide proof of qualified [...]