Canadian Kristie Moore, age 30, is 5 1/2 months pregnant and is an Winter Olympic alternate in Vancouver according to the article on Yahoo Sports by Chris Chase. She is an alternate for Team Canada’s curling team and has yet to be called upon but it’s a possibility. It’s a shocking story but from all [...]
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Individual and Family Health Plans
A recent report released by eHealthinsurance.com illustrates the relative affordability of individual health insurance plans across numerous dimensions, as well as a breakdown of what types of individual health insurance policies have been purchased most frequently. Some of the findings in the report include: The average monthly premium for an individual health insurance policy was [...]
Go Blue Health Insurance New Trend
According to the article “Retailers Take Shot At Health Insurance” by Grace Gagliano on Bradenton.com, retail health clinics are becoming a growing trend of supermarkets and drug stores. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida was the first health insurance company to offer health care cards in October. They partnered with Winn-Dixie and in November they partnered [...]
BCBSAL Offering Baby Program
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama has information about a great program on their website. “Baby Yourself” is a unique prenatal wellness program which gives expectant mothers important information about infant care and health care during pregnancy. On the BCBSAL website, it discusses the benefits of the program. “Baby Yourself” offers all expectant mothers support [...]
Maternity Coverage Can Be Hard To Find
UPDATE: 4/26/2012 – Maternity coverage continues to be a challenge for many pregnant women, and it’s increasingly harder for women who are self employed. Individual health insurance policies are already very expensive and if you add in maternity coverage it can often be unaffordable. Health care reform is looking to fix this issue, but President [...]
Maternity Coverage in Florida
Women of child-bearing age (19 to 55 years old) pay more for health insurance than men, says Linda A. Firestone, Ph.D in the Sun-Sentinel. A typical woman’s policy includes maternity coverage, which accounts for the gender disparity in insurance rates. Since the majority of American adult women eventually have children, health insurance with maternity coverage [...]
Advantra in Top 20 of U.S. Health Care Plans
A recent press release from HealthAmerica has announced that Advantra, the HealthAmerica Medicare Advantage plan, is ranked among the top 20 best Medicare and commercial health care plans in the 2008 “America’s Best Health Plans” list. Advantra was ranked #18 out of over 200 plans. The survey was conducted by U.S. News & World Report [...]
Maternity Coverage
If you are a woman who is planning on starting a family in the near future, you should first make sure that you have maternity health coverage before you get pregnant. If your health insurance is covered by employer sponsored coverage you are likely covered, however if you purchase individual health insurance on your own, [...]
