According to the article “The Missing Link in Health Reform: A Guarantee of Good Coverage At Work” by Richard Kirsch on huffingtonpost.com, the new House bill will require all but very small employers to offer and help pay for good health insurance benefits. They can also choose to pay a percent of their payroll to [...]
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Finding Health Insurance for the Newly Unemployed
Many Americans between the ages of 50-64 are losing their health insurance according to the article “Health Insurance Hard to Find for the Newly Unemployed” by Richard Martin TampaBay.com. The reason these people are losing their insurance so rapidly is because of rising unemployment and an increasing number of businesses unable to afford health insurance [...]
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 [...]
Health Insurance Coverage Estimates by County
According to an article on news.prnewswire.com the US Census Bureau just published 2006 estimates of health insurance coverage for each county in the nation. Small Area Health Insurance Estimates (SAHIE) use a variety of sources for their survey models. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention uses SAHIE to support its National Breast and Cervical [...]
COBRA Subsidy Enrollment Period Ending
The special enrollment period for those elgible for the COBRA Subsidy Program is coming to a close tommorrow. The program was available to anyone who lost their jobs between September 1, 2008 and March 17, 2009. With the COBRA Subsidy Program ending, some options for families in need of individual health insurance coverage include: Enroll [...]
Pfizer Provides Free Drugs to Uninsured
Pfizer has announced that they will provide free prescription drugs to current customers who have lost their jobs and subsequently lost their health insurance coverage. More than 70 medicines will be available through this temporary program. To be eligible, a person must have lost their in 2009 and started taking an eligible Pfizer medicine at [...]
Unemployed Health Insurance Guide
Healthinsurancefinders.com has recently published a 2009 Guide for Health insurance for the Unemployed. The free report can be found at http://www.healthinsurancefinders.com/unemployed/guide/ According to a press release announcing the publishing of the report, the objective of the report is to empower the recently unemployed to become more knowledgeable about finding and purchasing the best health insurance [...]
Health Insurance Caution
The Early Show (CBS) ran a segment on Hazardous Health Insurance. The plot of the segment was that with the growing number of uninsured in America, more and more people are purchasing individual health insurance, and according to a Consumer Reports story many of these individual health plans have major coverage gaps that can be [...]
Tuscon Health Insurance Fair for Arizona’s Uninsured
On St. Patrick’s Day, there will be a Tuscon health insurance fair to assist the local uninsured, reports the Arizona Daily Star. 30 insurers will be in attendance at the event, taking place in the El Rio Community Health Center. People without Arizona health insurance (about 1 in 5 of the state’s population) will be [...]
New Hampshire Health Insurance Expands Healthy Kids To Young Adults
Yesterday, the Associated Press reported that Governor John Lynch is planning to allow adults from ages 19 to 25 to buy New Hampshire health insurance through the state-subsidized Healthy Kids insurance program. Healthy Kids was previously open to children under 18 only. After a three-month waiting period, young adults earning individual incomes below 400% of [...]
