January 23, 2009 - Arizona voters narrowly rejected a state constitutional amendment that would have banned laws restricting choice of health plans or mandating that people obtain coverage. The amendment would have been at odds with certain elements of President-elect Obama's health care proposal. Of 1.8 million votes, 50.2 percent voted against, and 49.8 percent voted for, the amendment.
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January 23, 2009 - Maine voters rejected a beverage tax in November designed to replace the current funding mechanism that supports the Dirigo Health Program.
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January 23, 2009 - In November, Montana residents overwhelmingly passed Initiative 155, which establishes the Healthy Montana Kids plan to expand and coordinate coverage for uninsured children under Medicaid and SCHIP.
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November 7, 2008 - Beginning January 1, 2009, Illinois parents will be able to keep their unmarried children on their health insurance plans until they reach age 26, or age 30 if they are military veterans.
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October 11, 2007 - Healthy San Francisco (HSF) is a new program that provides medical homes to the city's uninsured adults. It was launched in July at two health centers, expanded to 20 additional clinics September 17, and is expected to go citywide on January 2, 2008.
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October 10, 2007 - Illinois All Kids, the first state-level universal coverage program for children, has had considerable success in its first year.
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October 4, 2005 - Minnesota's hospitals agreed to provide discounted care to uninsured patients and to be less aggressive in their debt collecting.
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May 26, 2005 - California counties are taking creative approaches to guarantee that all low- to mid-income children have access to health coverage.
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August 11, 2004 - This community-based initiative is a subsidized health coverage program that targets the working uninsured in small and medium sized businesses.
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August 11, 2004 - A revamped general medical assistance program in Wisconsin is providing indigent patients ineligible for other coverage with access to primary care.
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August 10, 2004 - Rhode Island is seeking to avoid cutting eligibility for its combination Medicaid/CHIP coverage by expanding enrollment of eligible families into its premium assistance program.
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August 10, 2004 - Illinois has been able to increase access to care for children and adults through a Health Insurance Flexibility and Accountability waiver that allowed it to provide premium assistance and direct coverage to low-income parents.
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August 10, 2004 - This Utah initiative is designed to leverage employer- and employee-paid health insurance premiums to help low-wage workers obtain comprehensive, private health insurance.
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August 10, 2004 - Pennsylvania's Health Insurance Premium Assistance Program pays a worker's share of the premium for those eligible for Medicaid who have access to employer-sponsored health coverage.
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August 9, 2004 - This analysis reviews the experiences of those who enrolled in a temporary health care program for workers in New York City's Chinatown neighborhood who were affected by the September 11 terrorist attacks.
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