Residents living in Dallas County, TX are eligible for a unique Dallas health insurance perk. Dallas County’s prescription drug card covers pet’s medicines as well, according to the article on examiner.com by Rebecca Poling. The Dallas County Coast2Coast RX card offers huge savings on prescription drugs, up to 65%. This includes pet prescriptions also. There [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Houston Health Insurance Rallies
According to the article “Houston turns out for health care reform” by James Thompson from People’s Weekly World Newspaper, 2000 supporters of health care reform had a rally organized by Organizing for America (OFA) at Houston City Hall. Many Houston health insurance policy holders are passionate about seeing change. The rally was endorsed by OFA, [...]
Healthy Families Program Rescued
A rare bi-partisan bill in the California legislature, allowed more than 700,000 children in low-income California families to maintain their health insurance coverage through the Healthy families Program. The deal restored about $200 Million that was slashed from the budget this summer. For this to happen, health insurance companies agreed to impose a tax on [...]
Texas Health Insurance Pool
The Texas Health Insurance Pool website gives some history and background to what the pool is and how it benefits Texas residents. The Texas Legislature created the Texas Health Insurance Pool to provide Texas health insurance benefits to eligible Texans who are unable to get coverage from commercial insurance companies because of previous or current [...]
Individual Health Insurance In Texas
The article entitled “Health Care Coverage” on texashealthoptions.com says that approximately one in four Texans do not have health insurance. This is a staggering statistic and getting individual health insurance in Texas does not have to be hard. Some of the reasons Texans decide to go without health insurance is because it’s too expensive, they [...]
Illinois Health Insurance Complaints Decreasing
The article “Leading insurance grievance: delays in claims handling” by Becky Yerak on chicagotribune.com states that Illinois consumers have been filing less complaints about their health, auto and homeowners insurance companies. Illinois health insurance complaints were down 13%, auto insurance complaints were down 10%, and homeowners insurance was down 5%. The complaint ratios, which compare the number [...]
What is a Health Care Cooperative?
A health care cooperative is a private, member-owned health plan that would serve states or regions. The health care co-op that is being proposed by the senate finance committee, would have them governed by elected officials rather than by the Federal Government. There are currently several health care co-ops in existence around the country, the [...]
