During Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, the Republican nominee, vowed to protect health insurance coverage for people with pre-existing conditions while also doubling ...

Until then, the law establishes a temporary national high-risk pool as the safety net to catch those who need insurance the most. For Washington state, one of 35 states where some type of high-risk ...

Ohio’s High Risk Pool insurance, which is a program that offers health coverage for people with pre-existing conditions, is starting to battle high costs, large enrollments and rate fluctuations, ...

WASHINGTON — Dwight Herron ran Oklahoma’s high-risk pool program that helped individuals with pre-existing medical conditions get health insurance before the Affordable Care Act took effect. On the ...

For many Republicans looking to scrap the Affordable Care Act, the fix will come from separating people into two pools. The lower-cost one would be for healthy people. Those with expensive medical ...

More than 4,300 people in Missouri and Illinois have been given an extension on their health insurance plans to avoid a coverage break Jan. 1. The Department of Health and Human Services announced ...

The new, temporary high-risk insurance pools, designed to cover an estimated seven million Americans with preexisting medical conditions until 2014, are insufficiently funded and could warp the ...

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - Gov. Mike Rounds says the state has reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to administer a federal high-risk insurance pool. The pool will cover ...

Although the Department of Health and Human Services has issued $16 million to Montana’s federally funded “high-risk” health insurance pool, Montana will need an additional $6 million to $7 million to ...

You'd have to be pretty cold-hearted to think somebody should go without insurance just because she has a kid with asthma, was born with diabetes, or survived a bout of breast cancer — just three of ...