In Southeastern Pennsylvania, Independence Blue Cross (IBC) in conjunction with Highmark Blue Shield has formed the Caring Foundation which helps to provide free or low-cost health insurance plans to uninsured children and adults in the 5 counties including and surrounding Philadelphia. Plans that are administered through the Caring Program include Pennsylvania CHIP, Adultbasic, and Special [...]
Archive for the ‘low-income health insurance’ Category
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 [...]
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 [...]
Health Insurance Reform is Good for Business
According to the article “Fixing Health Care Is Good for Business” by Gary Locke on the Wall Street Journal’s website, without health insurance reform the price of an average household’s health insurance will almost double over the next 10 years from $13,000 to $25,000. This is why health care reform is so crucial. 47 million [...]
BadgerCare Up For Bid
The state of Wisconsin is planning to require a open bidding process for private health insurance companies which seek to manage the BadgerCare Plus Health Insurance Program BadgerCare Plus provides health insurance coverage for low-income families with children under 19, but now also offers a health insurance plan with more limited coverage to low-income adults [...]
