In an effort to reduce the cost of private health insurance, many companies are excluding specific services. This is the insurance industry’s answer to cutting costs on a business level as well as for their customers. When you purchase low cost health insurance you may be able to purchase additional “riders” that give you access [...]
If there was one issue at the top of every medical service provider’s mind in 2009, it was health care reform.
The contentious battle in Washington will continue to dominate the headlines as Congress grapples over how to provide health coverage for the nation’s uninsured, poor and businesses offering group plans.
Earlier this week, the government-run insurance [...]
OVER 40,000 people have cancelled their private health insurance following pay cuts and insurance premium hikes.
Some 2pc of the 2.27m people with health insurance have stopped their payments because of the growing pressure on their incomes, an Oireachtas committee heard yesterday.
That leaves another 40,000 relying on the already-under- pressure public health system.
Younger people account for [...]
Last-minute fixes enacted last month staved off insolvency for a state fund that pays for health insurance to 34,000 unemployed residents, a program that has buckled as Massachusetts’s unemployment rate soared to 8.9 percent amid a global recession.
Although those fixes — doubling the rate employers pay into the fund, retooling the benefit structure and applying [...]
For nine months, a hefty subsidy has made health insurance more affordable for millions of jobless people and their kids.
Now, that option is screeching to a halt, unless Congress opts to extend the rare subsidy program and underwrite Cobra coverage for a few more months.
The rub? Unemployment benefits barely match the health-insurance load created by [...]
Coming is little harsh for who wanted the health insurance. Health insurance planning rates are going to be increased in 15% in the new year.
Recently, Hibernian Aviva increased its premia by 12% and VHI will,also up its rates in the new year.
Quinn Health care said its newly-announced increase was a result of the Government’s health [...]
International health insurance is an important consideration for people moving overseas or travelling regularly for work, it has been claimed.
Taking out expat health insurance should be a top priority for people making a move overseas, particularly if their destination has a weak healthcare infrastructure, Shelter Offshore has advised.
According to the expat advice site, international health [...]
As a medical practice executive and senior manager of a small business in our community I felt it was time to share my point of view on the current health care legislation.
Medicare is going broke. There are people in this country with serious illnesses who cannot afford health insurance. There are unethical people defrauding the [...]
Since health insurance regulations vary from state to state, health insurance agents must choose a geographic location and specialize in order to serve customers efficiently. In other words, health insurance agents have already done most of the time-consuming and frustrating work for you. What’s even better is that an agent with years of experience will [...]
