health insurance

An Open House Friday at the Family Welcome Center in the Paul Rodrigues Administration building on County Street. Dozens of school department employees and their community partners attended. The Center offers a variety of services to families entering the New Bedford school system...

The City of New Bedford is kicking off a new health insurance education program for kids and their parents, thanks to a grant from the National League of Cities. The program was explained during a program Monday at Carney Acadamy. Health Director Brenda Weis tells WBSM News, they started a dental program at Carney and learned that a large percentage of students did not have insurance...

Massachusetts officials say they're continuing to sign up people for health insurance even as they concede they may not have a fully functioning insurance website by the end of June. That's the deadline to move more than 200,000 people into insurance plans that comply with the federal health care law...

Drugstore chain Walgreen will become the latest big employer to send its workers shopping for their health insurance instead of providing a few choices for them.