HealthMarkets Enters Medicare Market with HealthMarkets Care Assured Plans (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NORTH RICHLAND HILLS, Texas----HealthMarkets, Inc. announced today that it has been approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to introduce new Medicare Advantage and Part D products later this year for a January 1, 2008 start date.

New report hikes total who lacked health care (East Valley Tribune)
More than 2.2 million Arizonans - or 42 percent of the state's non-Medicare population - went without health insurance at some point during the past year, according to a new study based on U.S. Census data.

Ragan criticizes Medicare Advantage plans (The Globe Gazette)
DES MOINES A state lawmaker and a group advocating for Medicare benefits for seniors are criticizing the Medicare Advantage program, which they say is an attempt to privatize Medicare.