Hospitals See Benefits in Universal Insurance
Fewer patients in emergency rooms could mean savings for health care providers and consumers alike

By Thomas Gaudio
NJBiz.com

Hospitals and insurers, the health care players at the center of a bill to cover uninsured New Jerseyans with government-funded health insurance, stand to be financial winners under the plan, industry insiders say.

The measure (S-1557) would p...
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Health coverage plan wins points
Gloucester County Times

New Jersey legislators aren't waiting for health care reform to come from Washington.

In a forward-looking move that speaks well of the state's commitment to a healthy populace, Sen. Joseph Vitale, D-Middlesex, chair of the Senate Health Committee, has introduced sweeping legislation to provide health insurance to all New Jersey residents by 2011....
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Business Likes Universal Health Care Plan
Corzine is supportive but warns the state can't afford it
By Scott Goldstein
NJBiz.com

When state Sen. Joseph Vitale (D, Middlesex) last week unveiled a plan to provide affordable health insurance to all state residents by 2011, business advocates liked what they were hearing.

The plan doesn’t call for raising taxes and it doesn’t assess fines on companies that do...
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Corzine calls health care plan a good Rx
BY ANGELA STEWART
Star-Ledger

Gov. Jon Corzine said yesterday he agrees with "the direction" of a health
care reform plan unveiled Monday by state lawmakers that gives children high priority when it comes to coverage.

Speaking at a conference in New Brunswick, Corzine called health care reform "a very, very complex problem" but one that must be addressed. And...
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Health care plan touted
By Trish G. Graber
Gloucester County Times

TRENTON New Jersey is not waiting for the next president to push a universal health care plan through Congress.

Legislators on Monday unveiled a proposal to provide health insurance to all state residents by 2011, aiming to put a plan in place before they believe a national plan could be implemented.

"We don't know...
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New Jersey senator proposes universal health care plan
By Adrienne Lu
Philadelphia Inquirer

New Jersey would become one of only a handful of states nationwide with universal health care, under a plan being pitched by the Democratic chairman of the state Senate's health committee.

Sen. Joseph F. Vitale (D., Middlesex) revealed some details of his proposal yesterday, including rough estimates of what it could cost the state. ...
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NJ Legislator Unveils Ambitious Health Care Plan
By Kevin McArdle
Millennium Radio


Joe Vitale, chairman of the State Senate Health Committee has unveiled a health care reform package aimed at covering all New Jersey residents by the year 2011. Under the plan, in the first year the State would ramp up efforts to enroll uninsured children in New Jersey FamilyCare, an existing program which provides subsidized access to health ...
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New Jersey to Consider Health Plan to Cover All
By DAVID W. CHEN
The New York Times

Thrusting New Jersey again into the vanguard of social change, a bipartisan group of legislators unveiled a proposal on Monday that would require all residents to have health care coverage within three years.

If adopted, New Jersey would become the fourth state to require universal health coverage, following Massachusetts, Maine and Vermont...
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Universal health care for New Jersey?
BY MARY JO LAYTONSTAFF
NorthJersey.com

All New Jersey residents would be required to have health insurance over the next three years under a plan unveiled Monday in Trenton.

If the plan is approved, New Jersey will become the fourth state in the nation with a universal health care law, said state Sen. Joseph Vitale, D Middlesex, the prime sponsor. The plan could cost the ...
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NJ universal health care plan unveiled
By JONATHAN TAMARI
GANNETT STATE BUREAU

Aiming to make New Jersey the second state in the nation with universal health care, Sen. Joseph Vitale unveiled a plan Monday to offer an "affordable" government-managed health plan and require everyone in the state to carry medical coverage.

"Every man, woman and child deserves access to affordable and quality health care her...
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New Jersey aims for health insurance for all by 2011
By TOM HESTER Jr.
Newsday.com

New Jersey lawmakers want to cover all state residents with health insurance
by 2011, but acknowledge the state wouldn't be able to stop employers from
dropping health coverage if the plan was implemented.

The plan unveiled Monday would first target children and parents and seek
reforms to make coverage affordable for small employ...
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State Senator Announces 'Universal Health Care' Plan
By Scott Goldstein
NJBiz.com

Sen. Joseph F. Vitale (D-Middlesex) will announce at an 11:30 news conference today in Trenton a plan that would require every New Jersey resident to carry some level of "affordable" health care insurance. It is being described as a "phased-in program to provide universal health care access."

The ultimate goal, according to the Senato...
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Universal health-care bill readied for N.J.
Under a plan to be unveiled in the legislature on Monday, the state would require all residents to have medical coverage within three years.

By Adrienne Lu
Philadelphia Inquirer

All New Jersey residents would be required to have some form of health insurance within three years under a state senator's plan set to be unveiled Monday.

Sen. Joseph F. Vitale (D., Mi...
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Universal health plan: 'This is the moment'
N.J. lawmakers set to introduce bills

BY SUSAN K. LIVIO
Star-Ledger

Lawmakers intend tomorrow to unveil a long-awaited plan that would require all New Jersey residents to have health coverage within three years, and officials say it would be financed in part by converting the mammoth Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey to a for-profit company.

The proposal...
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Hoping and dreaming anew in 2008
Home News Tribune
By Joshua Burd and Gene Racz

Health-care reform, property-tax relief, and quality of life issues topped the list of lawmakers' hopes for 2008, while many residents of Central Jersey hoped that the war in Iraq would end this year.

Asked what their first best hope for 2008 was, many residents talked about the world situation and the the U.S. troops serving...
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State drafts a winning health plan for kids
Home News Tribune

There are still plenty of questions about the state's ethics and finances, but in the last several weeks New Jersey has suddenly become something of a model: first lawmakers got rid of the death penalty; now they are preparing to extend reasonably priced health insurance to all children in the state, regardless of income.

The health insurance program is re...
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Senator works to insure kids first
Star Ledger
By Tom Moran

Just in time for Christmas, we have a winner of the coveted Legislator of the Year Award. It's a new honor, conceived just now. And the selection process was untainted by input from anyone other than this columnist.

The 2007 award goes to Sen. Joe Vitale, the owner of a small family business, and the man who is driving health care policy in the s...
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N.J. offers low-cost children's coverage
The Philadelphia Inquirer

TRENTON - Joining Pennsylvania and a handful of other states seeking to make sure all children have health insurance, New Jersey is about to offer low-cost coverage to youngsters from middle-class families.

Starting Jan. 1, the program will cover uninsured children whose parents earn too much to qualify for other government health-care programs.
Th...
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Child Health Plan to Be Expanded
The New York Times

TRENTON- Under an agreement to be unveiled on Wednesday, New Jersey will offer low-cost health coverage for the children of families who lack insurance but who earn too much for government help.

State Senator Joseph F. Vitale said that a new agreement between the state and Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey would make health insurance accessible for u...
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State program to offer health coverage for kids
Star Ledger
By Susan K. Livio

In a move that could make a se rious dent in the number of children who lack health insurance in New Jersey, state officials are ex pected to announce a program today that would let parents buy a policy at a drastically reduced rate.

The initiative is modeled after the government-subsidized FamilyCare program, which provides HMO-style coverage ...
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