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More than half of California voters are worried about the state's health care system and nearly three-quarters said they would have approved a health system overhaul proposed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) last year, according to a Field Poll survey released on Monday, the

A bipartisan group of eight House members on Monday discussed several health care issues -- such as SCHIP, Medicare and Medicaid -- during a debate at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, The Hill reports.

For every one point rise in the U.S. unemployment rate, the number of uninsured is projected to increase by 1.1 million people, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured analysis released Tuesday, the

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) on Monday at the Miami Children's Hospital promoted his health care proposal, which he said would "put families in charge," USA Today reports (Jackson, USA Today, 4/29).

Humana on Monday announced that first-quarter revenue increased by 12% to $6.96 billion from $6.20 billion in the period last year, driven by higher-than-average enrollment in the company's Medicare Advantage plans, the Wall Street Journal reports. The company also reported that first-quarter net income increased by 13% to $80.2 million, or 47 cents per share, from $71.

It is right that overseas doctors already working in the NHS are allowed to compete for training posts, the BMA says today in response to a House of Lords judgment.Last year, the High Court ruled that government guidance making it harder for international doctors to be appointed to training posts was unlawful. The House of Lords today rejected a Department of Health appeal against the ruling.

Maternal and Child Health Access, an advocacy group for low-income women, filed suit in San Francisco Superior Court last Thursday over a 1991 law requiring women to be state residents for six months to qualify for prenatal and postnatal health care services, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.

Employer-sponsored health insurance premiums for family coverage increased more than 10 times faster than U.S. employees' median incomes from 2001 to 2005, according to a report released Tuesday by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Washington Post reports (Washington Post, 4/29).

Health care costs are among the top economic problems experienced by U.S. residents, according to a poll released on Tuesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Los Angeles Times reports. For the poll, a nationally representative sample of 2,003 adults was interviewed by telephone between April 3 and 13.

"Health Care Coverage in America: Understanding the Issues and Proposed Solutions," Alliance for Health Reform: The updated guide, produced for Cover the Uninsured Week, provides an overview of information about how U.S.