THREE years ago, Taylor Wilhite, of Marblehead, Ohio, was diagnosed with leukemia. Like many other American parents, Taylor’s mother and father assumed their affordable health-insurance coverage would get her the care she needed. Unfortunately, the Wilhites’ family policy came with a $1 million lifetime cap. That sounds like a lot of money, but patients with [...]
Demand has been artificially suppressed because of the state’s top-ranked uninsured rate. According to the Centers for Disease Control, nearly 32 percent of non-elderly Texas adults were uninsured in 2009. They generally only see a physician when they have to.By 2014, the Affordable Care Act will change that. Expanded Medicaid, insurance exchanges and the individual [...]
The Obama administration is poised to award contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars to about 20 states to run new insurance pools for people with serious medical problems. In another 20 states, where local officials chose not to participate, the federal government will run the pools through a private nonprofit entity.
Colorado, Maryland and North [...]
By Jennifer Brown - Coloradans denied health insurance because they are deemed too sick will soon have access to coverage through a new state program.Temporary coverage for people with pre-existing conditions will become available Tuesday — five days after Thursday’s national deadline — and then phase out in 2014 when federal reform bars insurance companies [...]
Insurance is a form of risk management to protect dependents from loss of income. Surprisingly neither you nor the agent who sold the insurance policy to you appears to have viewed insurance from this angle. Individuals with no encumbrance hardly require life insurance; your primary requirements should be health insurance, accident, critical insurance and protection [...]
Imagine you have just relocated to a novel place; everything has to be attuned from the beginning. You are amidst a lot of doubts, work tension, the worries of adjusting to a new vocation, getting your things sorted at home. It is a tough time to manage with such situations, and abruptly your spouse falls [...]
SACRAMENTO — Buying health insurance is no one’s idea of fun.But for many folks who have lost a job, just graduated from college or maxed out their COBRA, it’s a necessity.
One of those is 60-year-old Nancy Thompson of Camino, who lost her shipping office job at Sierra Pacific’s mill last year. This month, the COBRA [...]
To make things easier for visitors, the sites that do proffer individual health insurance online are the greatest resources for ruling coverage. All tools are obtainable to search every plan in the country instantaneously and research every advantage obtainable to the applicant. Applying online is very speedy and allows applications to be submitted early the [...]
You may be one of the many people who do not understand the pages health reform bill. It is possible that no one has ever read the whole thing, except possibly the Congress committee that wrote it. There are many web sites and articles being written right now that summarize a lot of the specifics [...]
Idaho would not be part of a federally funded high risk insurance pool for citizens who cannot find Idaho health insurance due to a preexisting situation. The high risk pools are one of the states early strategy decisions to come from new federal health care laws. Idaho already has a small high risk pool that [...]