Archive for May, 2009

Another COBRA Insurance Site

Posted on: May 11th, 2009 by JPAL No Comments

AllWebLeads an Austin based insurance lead aggregater has launched a COBRA insurance information site, to help laid off individuals educate themselves about COBRA and COBRA alternatives.  The website is www.cobra-insurance.com Previously ehealthinsurance.com as well as other health insurance companies have launched stand alone websites that provide COBRA related educational resources. Individual health insurance plans are [...]

Keeping Health Care Costs in Check

Posted on: May 11th, 2009 by JPAL No Comments

Several leading consituents in the health care industry have offered to do their part to keep health care costs in check by offering to create $2 trillion in savings over the next 10 years by keeping projected rate increases in check over time. The health care groups participating in this agreement include:  Hospitals, health insurance [...]

Women’s Health Insurance Rates to Moderate

Posted on: May 6th, 2009 by BlogAdmin No Comments

The health insurance industry agreed yesterday to halt the practice of charging more for health insurance for women.  Currently when women purchase individual health insurance are charged higher health insurance rates for the same coverages,especially during the child bearing years. The move was viewed as a concession to Congress by health insurers in order to [...]

Health Insurance Rates and Gender

Posted on: May 5th, 2009 by ymedina No Comments

The health insurance industry has recently stated it shouldn’t charge women higher rates for health insurance coverage than men.  For more information read the following article:  Health Insurance Industry Agrees to Gender Parity on Rates  To see if you are getting the best health insurance rate visit www.healthinsurancesort.com.  

Unemployed Health Insurance Guide

Posted on: May 5th, 2009 by JPAL No Comments

Healthinsurancefinders.com has recently published a 2009 Guide for Health insurance for the Unemployed.  The free report can be found at http://www.healthinsurancefinders.com/unemployed/guide/ According to a press release announcing the publishing of the report, the objective of the report is to empower the recently unemployed to become more knowledgeable about finding and purchasing the best health insurance [...]

Health Insurance Warning

Posted on: May 4th, 2009 by JPAL No Comments

It has become an increasingly common problem that people are purchasing individual health insurance plans believing that they have sufficient health insurance coverage only to find out later that their health plan is chock full of loop holes, exclusions, limitations that make it difficult to realize full protection in the case of a severe accident, [...]

Health Insurance For College Students

Posted on: May 1st, 2009 by JPAL No Comments

Most colleges and universities offer their own health insurance plans for students, and some even make it mandatory that you purchase health coverage through them.  Students and more specifically the parents of students should make sure they understand the provision related to such policies since they vary so widely from school to school. Some university [...]