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MedicareFinance.com - New Site Launched- For the best Free Health & Life Insurance Quotes (dBusinessNews.com)
Posted: July 29th, 2009, 12:47pm EDT
New York - New York, NY July 2009 - MedicareFinance.com a new online plan resource for health insurance quotes & life insurance quotes. Voted by consumers as the best new website for it's 'user-friendlyness'. -
Employer-based insurance is less extensive than believed, says health insurance expert (Washington University in St. Louis)
Posted: July 29th, 2009, 11:08am EDT
July 29, 2009 -- "Private employment provides less health insurance than believed," says Merton C. Bernstein, a founding board member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and the Coles Professor of Law Emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis. -
Health Insurance Reform: What's In It For You? (The White House)
Posted: July 29th, 2009, 11:02am EDT
At 11:55 this morning in Raleigh, North Carolina, the President will be holding a town hall on health insurance reform and will hone in on 8 core insurance consumer protections that help define how this legislation will affect you directly. Learn more, and help spread the word. -
State launching new health insurance program (KPUA AM 670 Hilo)
Posted: July 29th, 2009, 9:43am EDT
HONOLULU (AP) — The state has announced that a new health insurance program will begin Sept. 1. The Department of Human Services said yesterday that Basic Health Hawaii will provide basic medical care for low-income "gap-group" adults who aren't U.S. citizens. -
City to continue paying health insurance costs for employees’ spouses, dependents (The Marshfield Mail)
Posted: July 29th, 2009, 4:14am EDT
A large number of city employees and their relatives showed up at City Hall Thursday evening, July 23, for the regular Marshfield Board of Aldermen meeting to voice their objections to any thought of the city changing its policy of paying 100 percent of health insurance for not only employees, but also their spouses and dependents. -
Former health insurance exec champions reform (San Francisco Chronicle)
Posted: July 29th, 2009, 3:24am EDT
Wendell Potter choked up a few times recalling the events that turned him from the chief spokesman for health insurer Cigna Corp. into a whistle-blower, denouncing the very practices he used to defend. Potter, speaking Tuesday at a San Francisco conference... Sponsored Topics: Cigna - Health insurance - San Francisco - Insurance - Health care -
Rob Warmowski: Christians, Please Report To The Health Insurance Reform Debate (The Huffington Post)
Posted: July 29th, 2009, 12:25am EDT
As the health insurance reform circus plays out on the Hill, and the big pharma and health insurance industry lobbies pour tens of millions into... -
ANC adopts national health insurance policy draft (Independent Online)
Posted: July 28th, 2009, 11:14pm EDT
The National Health Insurance draft policy document is on the cards after its adoption by the ANC national executive committee and would soon be released by the health minister for public scrutiny and debate. -
Family Without Insurance Questions Obama Health Plan (WFMY News 2 Greensboro)
Posted: July 28th, 2009, 10:34pm EDT
Greensboro, NC - John and Elizabeth Gomes go without health insurance, but still have doubts about Obama's plan for healthcare reform. -
Ira Glass looks at the fine print in health insurance (PRI Public Radio International)
Posted: July 28th, 2009, 5:52pm EDT
Ira Glass reports on what he found at a recent House subcommittee hearing on the health insurance industry. -
HealthCare.com Launches New Site Aimed At Health Insurance Agents And Consumers (dBusinessNews.com)
Posted: July 28th, 2009, 5:48pm EDT
announces it has launched a new website. The site, http://www.InsuranceAgentFinders.com provides consumers with access to health insurance professional.. -
Health-Care Debate Focuses on Majority in U.S. Who Are Satisfied With Their Insurance (Washington Post)
Posted: July 27th, 2009, 11:00pm EDT
With the Obama administration's top domestic priority struggling in Congress, supporters and opponents of the health-care proposals are focusing on the constituency that both sides agree has become pivotal to the debate: the majority of Americans who have health insurance and are generally satisf... -
Health-Care Debate Focuses on Majority in U.S. Who Are Satisfied With Their Insurance (Washington Post)
Posted: July 27th, 2009, 11:00pm EDT
With the Obama administration's top domestic priority struggling in Congress, supporters and opponents of the health-care proposals are focusing on the constituency that both sides agree has become pivotal to the debate: the majority of Americans who have health insurance and are generally satisfied with their care. -
In Hawaii, employers pay for health insurance (USA Today)
Posted: July 27th, 2009, 6:04pm EDT
Hawaii's decades-old law aimed at increasing health coverage by requiring companies to provide insurance to their workers has brought something less than universal health care to the 50th state. -
Are Health Insurance Companies The Problem? (NPR)
Posted: July 21st, 2009, 12:54pm EDT
In the debate over health care, many point the finger at insurance companies. -
Millions in U.S. can't afford health insurance (Channel 8 San Diego)
Posted: July 21st, 2009, 11:10am EDT
Most people in the U.S. who try to buy health insurance on their own never end up getting coverage, often because the premiums are just too expensive. -
Kansas Life and Health Insurance Prelicense Exam Prep Course Now Available From PreLicense.com(TM) (Marketwire)
Posted: July 21st, 2009, 10:50am EDT
DALLAS, TX--(Marketwire - July 21, 2009) - PreLicense.com, a service of WebCE, recently released a new Web-based course designed to help students pass the Kansas life and health insurance license exam. This interactive course is written specifically for the Kansas Insurance Department life and health licensing exam and includes the July 2009 changes made to the Kansas insurance laws. ... -
Individual Health Insurance Market Failing Consumers, Report Suggests (Science Daily)
Posted: July 21st, 2009, 9:15am EDT
The individual health insurance market is not a viable option for the majority of uninsured adults, a new report from the Commonwealth Fund finds. Seventy-three percent of people who tried to buy insurance on their own in the last three years did not purchase a policy, primarily because premiums were too high. -
Millions in U.S. Can't Afford Health Insurance (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
Posted: July 21st, 2009, 8:03am EDT
TUESDAY, July 21 (HealthDay News) -- Most people in the United States who try to buy an individual health insurance policy on their own never end up getting coverage, often because the premiums are just too expensive, according to a new study. -
German Health Insurance Premiums to Rise, Rheinische Post Says (Bloomberg)
Posted: July 21st, 2009, 5:46am EDT
July 21 (Bloomberg) -- Germans covered by the nation’s public health insurance system face higher premiums next year as unemployment increases, the Rheinische Post newspaper reported , citing Herbert Rebscher, head of health insurer DAK. -
New report: Individual health insurance market failing consumers (PhysOrg)
Posted: July 21st, 2009, 5:10am EDT
The individual health insurance market is not a viable option for the majority of uninsured adults, a new report from The Commonwealth Fund finds. Seventy-three percent of people who tried to buy insurance on their own in the last three years did not purchase a policy, primarily because premiums were too high. In addition, among adults with individual coverage or who tried to buy coverage in the ... -
German Health Insurance Premiums to Rise, Rheinische Post Says (Bloomberg)
Posted: July 21st, 2009, 2:52am EDT
July 21 (Bloomberg) -- Germans covered by the nation’s public health insurance system face higher premiums next year as unemployment increases, the Rheinische Post newspaper reported , citing Herbert Rebscher, head of health insurer DAK. -
Massachusetts mandates health insurance; so how is it working? (The Montana Standard)
Posted: July 21st, 2009, 2:37am EDT
HELENA — Welcome to Massachusetts, where health care has been reformed and everybody is required to buy or have health insurance — a preview of what Congress and President Barack Obama have in store for the rest of America. -
Logan County Board ready to end health insurance for members (Herald & Review)
Posted: July 21st, 2009, 12:39am EDT
LINCOLN - The Logan County Board is expected to vote today on whether to eliminate taxpayer-funded health insurance for newly elected or appointed county board members. -
House panel approves new voluntary insurance program for long-term health care (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Posted: July 20th, 2009, 11:20pm EDT
WASHINGTON - A House committee has approved a new voluntary insurance program meant to help families with the costs of long-term health care. The measure was OK'd on voice vote late Monday by the House Energy and Commerce Committee as an amendment to a sweeping health care overhaul bill. -
New report: Individual health insurance market failing consumers (EurekAlert!)
Posted: July 20th, 2009, 11:17pm EDT
( Commonwealth Fund ) The individual health insurance market is not a viable option for the majority of uninsured adults, a new report from the Commonwealth Fund finds. Seventy-three percent of people who tried to buy insurance on their own in the last three years did not purchase a policy, primarily because premiums were too high. -
Pill for health insurance (The Telegraph)
Posted: July 20th, 2009, 5:31pm EDT
Calcutta, July 20: The health insurance sector could soon get a monitoring body that will formulate and implement standards to be followed by insurers, third party administrators, hospitals and policyholders. -
Obama Turns Health Care Sights to Insurance Companiesn (Fox News)
Posted: July 20th, 2009, 3:31pm EDT
President Barack Obama turned his sights on the country's health insurance companies today in the continuing national debate over health-care reform. -
Granholm challenges Dillon's health insurance plan (Detroit Free Press)
Posted: July 20th, 2009, 1:17pm EDT
Updated at 4:35 p.m.: Gov. Jennifer Granholm said gave a cold shoulder to a plan by House Speaker Andy Dillon to pool some 400,000 Michigan public employees under a single health insurance plan. -
What if I don't want health insurance? (The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News)
Posted: July 20th, 2009, 4:00am EDT
I'm one of the nearly 50 million Americans who don't have health insurance. I don't want it, either. -
Tales Of Health Insurance Plights Highlight Overhaul Efforts (Medical News Today)
Posted: July 13th, 2009, 9:06am EDT
Analysts say many in America take jobs they otherwise wouldn't simply for the health insurance coverage, Reuters/Boston Globe reports. "It is a situation most Europeans, Canadians and others who enjoy national health services would find bewildering if not appalling and is one factor fueling the drive to reform the hugely expensive U.S. healthcare system. … U.S. -
Health Insurance Exchanges Gain Attention (Medical News Today)
Posted: July 13th, 2009, 8:21am EDT
Kaiser Health News reports on health insurance exchanges, a concept now being considered in the context of Congress's health overhaul proposals. "The seemingly simple idea behind exchanges - one-stop shopping for insurance - masks the cornerstone role they may play in a national overhaul of the health system. -
Health insurance options for pre-Medicare retirees (Daily Local News)
Posted: July 13th, 2009, 5:20am EDT
Dear Savvy Senior: What are my options for finding affordable health insurance? I was recently forced into early retirement and need to find some health coverage until Medicare kicks in. What can you tell me? -
Expanding insurance no answer for health care reform (Fort Worth Business Press)
Posted: July 13th, 2009, 5:03am EDT
Health care "reformers" keep talking about getting us more health insurance. Then they talk about cutting costs. This is contradictory nonsense. Insurance, whether private or a government Ponzi scheme like Medicare, means third parties pay the bills. When someone else pays, costs always go up. -
Grads need to research health insurance (The Morning Call)
Posted: July 13th, 2009, 4:49am EDT
Now that you've graduated college, you need to research health insurance to avoid a lapse in coverageThe basics --New graduates should avoid lapses in health insurance --Young adults must balance prem Class work and finals aren't the only things that end when a college grad swings that tassel over the mortarboard. For many students who have had health insurance through a parent's employer or the ... -
National Health Insurance (NHI) (Health-e)
Posted: July 13th, 2009, 4:22am EDT
The issue of the need to establish a national health insurance system is not a new phenomenon. By Dr Olive Shisana. Read more -
Former Health Insurance Exec Comes Clean About Industry Efforts To Discredit "Sicko" (The Huffington Post)
Posted: July 12th, 2009, 9:10pm EDT
On Friday's edition of "Bill Moyers Journal" the PBS host sat down Wendell Potter, a former Head of Corporate Communications at health insurance giant CIGNA, to talk about how the industry crafted its plan of attack for discrediting Michael Moore and his film "Sicko" back in 2007. Potter says the health insurance industry was genuinely afraid that "people would believe Michael Moore." -
Tales of health insurance plights highlight overhaul efforts (News-Medical-Net)
Posted: July 12th, 2009, 8:41pm EDT
Analysts say many in America take jobs they otherwise wouldn't simply for the health insurance coverage, Reuters/Boston Globe reports. -
Health insurance exchanges gain attention (News-Medical-Net)
Posted: July 12th, 2009, 7:11pm EDT
Kaiser Health News reports on health insurance exchanges, a concept now being considered in the context of Congress's health overhaul proposals. -
The Hunt For Affordable Health Insurance (NPR)
Posted: July 12th, 2009, 9:51am EDT
Last month, small business owner Larry Harbour of Broken Bow, Neb., told NPR that health insurance was unaffordable because of the $24,000- to $40,000-a-year premiums. That sounded way off-base to a Nebraska insurance broker. So, he called Harbour himself. -
Missouri farmers face tough choices getting health insurance (The Joplin Globe)
Posted: July 11th, 2009, 10:59pm EDT
LIBERAL, Mo. — Kerry Rose knows firsthand the risks farmers face when they gamble on working in one of the nation’s most dangerous occupations without health insurance. -
Sen. Chuck Schumer report: Rise in health insurance costs is sickening for New Yorkers (New York Daily News)
Posted: July 11th, 2009, 9:01pm EDT
The price tag for health insurance in New York is up an astronomical 81% since 2000 - and millions of New Yorkers are spending one out of 10 dollars on medical care. -
Health struggle (The News & Observer)
Posted: July 5th, 2009, 1:04am EDT
If there's anything scarier to Americans amid this horrid economy than the prospect of losing a job, it's the other shoe that often drops at the same time -- losing health insurance. -
WITH VIDEO: County commission seeks to expand health insurance beyond the poor (The Oakland Press)
Posted: July 4th, 2009, 10:27am EDT
Oakland County Democrats want to expand a health insurance program for the county’s “poorest of the poor.” -
Millions just say no to health insurance (TCPalm.com)
Posted: July 4th, 2009, 9:16am EDT
Among the 47 million Americans who don't have health insurance, 11 million of those are voluntarily uninsured, people who may not welcome Washington's efforts to make sure that all Americans have some kind of health coverage. -
Senate health care: pay your own health insurance or pay a fine (The World)
Posted: July 4th, 2009, 3:57am EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — First you paid to insure your car. Soon you may have to add health insurance premiums to that stack of monthly bills as well. -
Private Health Insurance Coverage At 50-Year-Low, According To CDC (Medical News Today)
Posted: July 3rd, 2009, 8:09am EDT
The percentage of Americans with private health insurance is at its lowest level in 50 years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday, according to The Associated Press. "About 65 percent of non-elderly Americans had private insurance in 2008, down from 67 percent the year before, according to preliminary data released Wednesday by the (CDC). -
Under a Senate health care plan, you pay your own medical insurance premium or pay a fine (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Posted: July 3rd, 2009, 6:43am EDT
WASHINGTON - First you paid to insure your car. Soon you may have to add health insurance premiums to that stack of monthly bills as well. In a revamped health care system envisioned by senators, people would be required to carry health insurance just like motorists must get auto coverage now. -
Korea’s National Health Insurance Corporation Selects Blue Coat Appliances for Web Security and Control (Thaipr.net)
Posted: July 3rd, 2009, 3:21am EDT
Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCSI), the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that Korea’s National Health Insurance Corporation (NHIC) has deployed Blue Coat(R) Pr -
Johanns eyes subsidies for health insurance (Lincoln Journal Star)
Posted: July 3rd, 2009, 12:25am EDT
Sen. Mike Johanns said Thursday he’s inclined to consider government subsidies to reduce health insurance costs for Americans in need. A proposal to “buy down the cost” of insurance premiums and deductibles ought to be on the table as one of the alternatives in health care reform, Johanns said. -
Cornyn: GOP opposes public health insurance option (San Antonio Express-News)
Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 10:04pm EDT
A public plan, favored by Obama, would undermine competition in the health insurance market, Sen. John Cornyn says. -
Salowe-Kaye: Declare independence from health insurance companies (The Record and Herald News)
Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 3:58pm EDT
Health insurance premiums have risen more than 1,000 percent since the insurance industry leaders promised America they would take care of us after they killed health care reform in 1993. -
Health Insurance's Ideological Divide (US News & World Report)
Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 9:15am EDT
Can right and left ever agree about health insurance reform?