Recently, the Asian Health Coalition of Illinois (AHCI) announced that it will be giving its Corporate Leadership award to Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois for their efforts to promote wellness and for its strong support of AHCI. According to BCBSIL’s site, BCBSIL supports hundreds of nonprofit organizations every year that offer services to people [...]
Archive for May, 2009
How Our Health Insurance Dollar is Split up
A recent report prepared by PriceWaterHouseCoopers and released by AHIP breaks down how each dollar that is spent by Americans on health insurance is broken down. According to the report: $0.33 is spent on physicians services $0.20 is spent on inpatient costs $0.15 is spent on outpatient costs $0.14 is spent on drugs $0.05 is [...]
The Senate Considering Requiring Health Insurance
Congress is pushing for a bill to reform health insurance by the end of the year. An overview has been published outlining the options that are being considered and a health insurance mandate is on the table. The overview has the option of requiring Americans to be covered by health insurance. Those who choose not to [...]
New York Proposes to Change Health Insurance Regulation
According to Valerie Bauman at Newsday.com, New York’s Governor David Paterson wants to ensure health insurance is more affordable by requiring health insurance companies to get state approval if they are going to raise premiums. This bill is one of four that Paterson has proposed to help people who can’t afford private health insurance, but [...]
Pfizer Provides Free Drugs to Uninsured
Pfizer has announced that they will provide free prescription drugs to current customers who have lost their jobs and subsequently lost their health insurance coverage. More than 70 medicines will be available through this temporary program. To be eligible, a person must have lost their in 2009 and started taking an eligible Pfizer medicine at [...]
Children’s Health Insurance in Pennsylvania
Senate Bill 189 recently passed the Pennsylvania House of Representatives which will allow children of parents covered on their group health insurance plan to remain on the health plan until age 30. Seventeen other states have already extended the age limit for dependent health insurance coverage. To be eligible for the Pennsylvania health insurance extention, [...]
Health Insurance Coverage
Many Americans have health insurance through their employers. But as the economy struggles and the working world changes, employment is no longer a health insurance guarantee. America continues to move from a manufacturing based economy to a service economy and working patterns are evolving. This, in turn has made employer based health insurance less stable. [...]
Blue Cross And Blue Shield Companies Celebrate National Walk @ Lunch Day®
Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies across the country are working with employers to get their employees healthier. Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies are holding lunchtime walks across America as part of the third annual National Walk @ Lunch Day® because of the high costs that come along with an inactive lifestyle. Walks are [...]
North Carolina State Health Plan’s Staggering Losses
The State Health Plan – North Carolina’s health plan for state employees lost $137.6 Million in the fiscal year ending in June 2008. The plan covers roughly 667,000 North Carolinians. The primary driver of the financial implosion was the introduction of a more generous PPO health insurance option that prompted 76,000 existing enrollees to switch [...]
