High-risk pools play an important role in the health care system. They are state-created, nonprofit associations that offer comprehensive health insurance benefits to individuals with pre-existing ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Secretary of State David Scanlan has come out against legislation that would permit the state’s four risk management pools, which ...

High-risk pools have consistently failed in the past and are not a feasible alternative to the Affordable Care Act’s protections for people with pre-existing conditions. A young patient who uses a ...

The new risk pools were set up this year to cover patients with high-cost pre-existing conditions, such as cancer, who leave hospitals and other providers stuck with huge unpaid bills. Such patients ...

Secretary of State David Scanlan asked the Legislature to give his office sweeping new powers to regulate the finances of risk pools that manage health and property insurance for cities, towns and ...

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 ...

DES MOINES - People with serious and chronic health conditions that require high-cost medical care could be placed in high-risk insurance pools under health care reforms under construction in Congress ...

High-risk insurance pools set up in many states for individuals with pre-existing and chronic conditions were originally intended to shift to the healthcare law’s insurance exchanges gradually. But a ...