According to a recent report released by Families USA, North Carolina health insurance rates have increased sharply. It now costs over $13,000 to insure the average North Carolina family via an employer sponsored health insurance plan. Of that amount, the family will end up paying $4,000-$5,000 out of pocket. The cost of Group health insurance [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Las Vegas Health Insurance and Reform Rally
According to the article “Health Care Reform bus makes a stop in Las Vegas” from KTNV.com, President Obama supporters for his health care reform made a scheduled stop in Las Vegas, Nevada. They have been traveling the country to educate people on the benefits of Obama’s plan and Las Vegas health insurance consumers were encouraged [...]
Humana Quotes Affected By Health
Humana Health Insurance’s website has useful health and wellness articles including one in particular entitled “Couch Potatoes – Here’s Food for Thought”. This article is encouraging members to exercise for many different reasons. The article points out that being a “couch potato” can be deadly. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say the underlying [...]
New Mexico Without Health Insurance
According to a recently released report by the US Census Bureau, about 23% of New Mexico residents did not have health insurance coverage in 2007-2008. Not only is the rate of uninsured in New Mexico the second highest in the country, but the 23% that were uninsured in New Mexico according to the report was [...]
Health Insurance Quotes Won’t Necessarily Be Lowered With Cooperatives
The Senate Finance Committee is coming close to figuring out a healthcare reform bill according to Maggie Guo’s article on The Ethiopian Review site. Health care cooperatives are still on the table, which has the idea of building large groups so that the price of expensive medical costs are spread out among members to reduce costs for everyone. [...]
Hawaii Without Health Insurance
Recently released results show that 7.8% of Hawaii residents lack health insurance. Nationally, the number of uninsured Americans has swelled to 46.3 Million according to the same report. Hawaii has performed better than most other states when it comes to health insurance coverage, because of Hawaii’s passage of the 1974 Prepaid Health Care Act that [...]
Finding Health Insurance Made Easy
As unemployment rises so does the number of people who need help finding health insurance. A lost job usually means a loss in employer based health insurance as well. According to the article on WISN.com, millions of Americans are an illness away from financial ruin because they are not protected by health insurance. Finding health insurance [...]
Individual Health Insurance Covering Swine Flu Vaccines
Approximately 1 million Americans have been infected with the H1N1 virus, more commonly known as the swine flu, according to the article “Individual Health Insurance Could Provide Assistance for Swine Flu Vaccines” by Maggie Guo found on the Ethiopian Review. People who are covered by certain individual health insurance companies may have the swine flu [...]
State Farm Health Insurance: Quality Care
You may not know that State Farm, in addition to insuring more cars and homes than any other insurance company in the US, offers health insurance. This is made possible through the national alliance that allows Assurant Health’s individual medical products available through State Farm health insurance across the country, according to the press release [...]
Medicare Advantage – What does the future Hold?
Seniors seem to love Medicare Advantage Plans. In some areas, such as South Florida, 40% of seniors aged 65+ have enrolled in these plans for those eligible for Medicare. Nationally about 22% of seniors are enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans. It isn’t hard to see why these plans are popular, many Medicare Advantage plans require [...]
