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Comparing Affordable Health Insurance Plans
Health insurance is extremely important not only in emergencies but to maintain your health and take preventative measures. While it is expensive to many - there are affordable health insurance options. Three main options that are available include: state sponsored, individual, and group. Here is an overview of each:
Individual Health Insurance
This health insurance option is… »
Increase in need for health care driving up premiums
For Darrin Lehman, getting healthy has become a high-wire act without a safety net.
Unable to afford health insurance for the last six years, he found out he has high cholesterol only when he sold his blood plasma for some extra cash.
When he got strep throat last summer, a trip to a local convenient care center… »
College graduate decisions about health insurance
Lindsay Straub says it was her “dream job.” Straub graduates from college Saturday, and just a few weeks ago, she was offered an entry-level position with an entertainment company.
“I was ecstatic,” says Straub, 21, a communications major at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York. “I was ready to make the phone call to accept the… »
Least competitive region on health insurance
A report released Thursday by a worker’s rights organization says Indiana’s private health insurance industry is a “near monopoly” and the Gary metropolitan area has the least competition in the state.
The report, compiled by Health Care for America Now and released in Indiana by Central Indiana Jobs With Justice, says consolidation within the private health… »
Employer health insurance no longer option for many
Recession, depression, cutbacks and layoffs are words all too commonly heard these days in news reports and conversations. Since the beginning of the financial crisis, millions of Americans have lost their jobs and many economists are predicting that more job cuts are on the horizon.
With the loss of their jobs, Americans are not only losing… »
Domestic-partner health insurance approved
The Joint Committee on Finance today (May 22) approved Gov. Jim Doyle’s proposal to authorize the offering of health insurance benefits to same- and opposite-sex domestic partnerships.
This is a very important development and brings the reality of this provision becoming law one step closer, according to Don Nelson of UW-Madison’s State Relations.
Both houses of the… »
Q&A About Health Insurance
As unemployment continues to rise, people are struggling to keep their health insurance.
KMBC’s Brenda Washington spoke with Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger. Praeger has just returned from a trip to Washington, D.C., where she met with Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of Health and Human Services and the former governor of Kansas.
The meeting revolved around the… »
Why I Like Health Insurance Deductibles
The word deductible in health insurance coverage makes many people nervous, especially if it is $500 or $1,000. Perhaps this is because they have never considered what a deductible can do for them, so let’s look at four ways a deductible could add to your well-being.
Deductible plans allow greater patient choice. Many health insurance plans… »
Florida Lacks Competitive Health Insurance
A handful of private companies dominate the Florida’s health insurance market, stifling competition and causing insurance premiums to grow more than three times faster than wages from 2000 to 2007, according to a new report by a coalition of health-care activists who want more government intervention.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, along with Aetna,… »
Pennsylvania Graduates Need Health Insurance Options
Employers will hire 22 percent fewer college graduates in 2009 than they did last year, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers. That means thousands of Pennsylvania college students graduating this spring may be without health insurance coverage due to unemployment or time elapsing before starting a new job.
Highmark, Pennsylvania’s largest health insurer… »