According to the PRWeb article through medicaresupplementplans.com entitled “California Health Insurance Assistance Program Awarded 2009 Grant Funding”, California health insurance assistance programs are expected to receive about $3 million in grants to help Medicare beneficiaries in need of information on health insurance topics. This is an ongoing effort to better assist these citizens who are often [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Florida Health Insurance To be Sold Via Storefronts by BCBSFL
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Plans to sell individual health insurance plans via storefront on a larger scale in the future. BCBSFL who has had an operational health insurance storefront in Pembroke Pines for more than a year plans to expand to five to eight stores across the state. Individual health insurance have become [...]
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Teams Up With County
Miami-Dade county in Florida has teamed up with Blue Cross Blue Shield health insurance of Florida for a very unique partnership according to the article “Dade, Blue Cross offer health plan” by John Dorschner on miamiherald.com. Currently there are around 600,000 uninsured in Miami-Dade county and leaders felt something needed to be done to fix this. Janet [...]
North Carolina Health Insurance: High-Risk Pool an Option
According to the article “NC high-risk pool an option for many seeking health insurance” by Vicky Eckenrode on starnewsonline.com, there is a new state program to cover high risk applicants to ensure North Carolina health insurance is made available to them. In 2007, state legislators started the Inclusive Health program. It’s also known as the [...]
COBRA Benefits To Be Extended
Workers who lose their jobs and enroll in Government sponsored COBRA coverage will now be able to maintain that health insurance coverage indefinitely until they find replacement coverage ( as long as they continue to pay the monthly premiums). Previously health coverage via COBRA was only available for a maximum of 18 months after they [...]
Health Insurance Important for College Athletes
Four years ago the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) started to require universities to make their athletes have health insurance coverage before competing in sporting events. A mistake was made as the Association did not set forth clear standards for the coverage leaving the students to decide for themselves what they needed. This is all [...]
Losing Health Coverage
Families USA released a research study called “The Clock Is Ticking: More Americans Losing Health Coverage”. The report illustrates on a state-by-state basis how many people are projected to lose health coverage by the end of 2010. Key findings of the report include that Nationally, more that 44,000 people are losing health coverage each week, [...]
BlueCross BlueShield of Texas on Health Care Reform
BlueCross BlueShield of Texas (BCBSTX) published a memo on their website that covers where they stand on the much talked about health care reform debate going on in Washington. BCBSTX does believe strongly that health care reform is in fact needed and affordable health insurance should be available to all Americans. On the table currently [...]
Health Care Ads – Who Do I believe?
Kaiser Health News has begun a series of articles analyzing health care reform advertisements sponsored by various organizations. This series can be very helpful in helping the public interpret the ads, understand the validity of claims etc. and gainign a better understanding of how impending health care reform might affect them. Kaiser Health News, is [...]
Health Insurance For Low Income Families
Many states have state sponsored health insurance plans that are designed for “the working uninsured”. Generally the monthly premiums of these plans are subsidized by the state and in order to qualify, applicants must have household income levels that don’t exceed 200% of federal poverty level, and being a resident of the state. Each state [...]
