Congress has briefly considered the insurance co-op as a viable option to overhaul health care, but it’s been put to the side for now. According to the article “The insurance co-op is already in your neighborhood” by Julie Mason on the Washington Examiner’s website, State Farm Insurance is America’s most well known, successful member-owned cooperative. [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Utah Health Insurance Exchange
The state of Utah has launched a “health insurance exchange”. Through a state run website, participating small businesses in Utah will be able to offer employees a health care stipend, which workers can in turn use to shop on the site and select an individual health insurance plan that best fits their needs. Utah has [...]
North Carolina Health Insurance Rates Up 97%
If you are a North Carolina resident and have received any recent health insurance quotes, you know rates are way up. They are up an astonishing 97% since 2000 according to an article on bizjournals.com by James Gallagher. Income in the state has only increased by a mere 18.4% during the same time period. This [...]
Blue Cross of Northeastern PA Rate Increase
Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania has filed a rate increase request with the Pennsylvania Department of Insurance for a handful of individual health insurance products. If the rate increase request is approved it would impact about 56,000 existing customers of the Blue Cross health insurance company, or about 10% of their subscriber base. The individual [...]
Health Insurance Public Option Possibly Off the Table
Congress may be backing away from their idea of a public option only health insurance plan. The New York Times reported earlier today that public health insurance may not be included in their plan at all according to Sheryl Gay Stolberg on the NY Time’s site. White House officals state that President Obama hasn’t fully [...]
Massachusetts Health Insurance Won’t Be Available for Immigrants
According to the article “Immigrants soon to lose state health insurance” by Kay Lazar on boston.com 30,000 legal immigrants are receiving letters informing them that their Massachusetts health insurance which is subsidized by the state, will no longer be available after August 31. It will be replaced by patchwork care until Massachusetts officials can determine [...]
Dallas Health Insurance and Dallas Hospitals
If you are in the market for Dallas health insurance it’s valuable to know how Dallas hospitals rank. DallasHealthInsurance.org has some information on their rankings. Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, TX, is ranked 15th among the best hospitals in the country for Gynecology. It ranks 36th for treating kidney disease. Children’s Medical Center is 15th [...]
Health Insurance Quotes: In and Out-of-Network
According to the article “An affordable insurance quote requires careful research” on healthcare.com customers will benefit from doing their research when shopping for health insurance quotes. You may find an affordable quote quickly, but read the fine print to prevent future issues with your policy. One potential issue is in and out-of-network stipulations. PPO and HMO [...]
ValueBlue – Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas
Blue Cross Blue Shield member plans initiatives to increase access to affordable health insurance by the uninsured. PartVI Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas (BCBSKS) worked closely with both the Kansas Hospital Association and the Kansas Medical Society to create the ValueBlue health insurance product line. ValueBlue is designed for Kansas residents that earn less [...]
