The House passed legislation Wednesday (406-19) to strip health insurers of their federal antitrust exemption. The Washington Post: The Democratic bill “could resonate with public concerns about insurers but that has an uncertain future in the Senate. …

News outlets report on the number of uninsured young adults and issues affecting the Children’s Health Insurance Program. “A third of young U.S. adults — nearly 13 million people — had no health insurance coverage in 2008, according to a government report released on Wednesday,” Reuters reports…

The Hartford Courant: “With average rate hikes at 13 percent or more this year for most plans, Connecticut health insurance premiums appear to be rising faster than the nation’s. A typical family plan in Connecticut sold through an employer costs about $14,500 — an estimate based on the Kaiser Family Foundation’s report on 2009 prices [...]

About 66 percent of the nearly 20 million state and local government employees were enrolled in employer-sponsored health plans in 2008, compared with 54 percent of private-sector workers, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality…

Older women who are divorced, separated or widowed or who have never married have twice the uninsured rate of their married peers, according to a new policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research…