Health Insurance is a tricky thing. Costs, plans, deductibles, coverage, changes, it’s never ending. Shopping for different types of health insurance is almost as confusing as figuring out an individual plan. Americans will never get turned away from a hospital in case of an emergency, but not every health care issue is an emergency, get [...]
With many people still working on their New Year’s resolutions, January can be a popular time to get health insurance — whether it’s your first time or you are switching plans. Smart consumers know that early in the calendar year is an especially good time to reconsider their health insurance options. Reconsider their options and [...]
Guaranteed-issue low cost health insurance can prove to be useful for many people. It is an insurance policy that offers people with coverage who may not be able to get health insurance elsewhere. Health insurance is very important to have and most everybody is qualified to have this type of coverage.
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Small businesses and self-employed individuals hope to get better deals on health insurance through the new exchanges that would be created under health care reform legislation.
These new marketplaces should provide up to 30 million Americans with an easy-to-use way to shop for coverage by offering a menu of plans, presented in a Web-based standardized format. [...]
In about two months from now, you will have the option of buying an insurance product that combines a life insurance policy with one that covers a medical expenses.
Health and Life Combi products last week, the stage is set for a one-stop-shop arrangement with partnerships between life and non-life insurers.
Although several life insurance companies sell [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
There is finally some good news for health insurance buyers. Insurers are now beginning to cover outpatient department (OPD) expenses.
At least two players have come out with such a policy that was so far denied by insurance companies on fears of misuse by policyholders.
Health Advantage Plus come at a fixed annual premium of Rs [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
