The Concord (Boston) house passed a bill stating that the children can take back on their parent’s health insurance if they take a leave from school on the temporary basis. Whereas a proposed scheme of health insurance in Kerala (Thiruvananthapuram) crashed. It happened when the experts had put forth that this health scheme will do no good to the poor while it will only undermine the reasonable success of the public healthcare system in the state. The government had already sanctioned the benefit of 2.5 million households.
June 2, 2006
Health insurance - children now being backed by parents!
January 16, 2006
Give them a break
When the diagnosis speaks of a terminal illness, energy drains out with a sense of helplessness. More so when you are the earning member. Work becomes the only source of relaxation to drive away the thoughts of an impending doom. There are certain diseases with varying degrees of recovery resulting in strain and stress on patients. For them, work is the leveler promising normalcy and support from colleagues to carry on gamely. Your suffering acts as a catalyst. This is where health insurance lends a helping hand.
