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Healthy Indiana Plan Useful Information
Affordable health insurance in this day and age can be extremely challenging for some, especially if your employer does not offer a plan and you are in the poor population. If you live in Indiana though there is a great opportunity for you. It's call...
iCan Benefits Information
There is an unique company in the health insurance industry called iCan Benefits which has thousands of existing customers. Their mission is to bring access to affordable health care to all Americans. They believe that America needs better access to ...
Washington Basic Information
Washington Basic Health is a health insurance option providing low cost health care to qualifying Washington residents. Residents must meet income requirements and not be eligible for free or purchased Medicare. They cannot be institutionalized at th...
Healthy Indiana Plan Reopens to Adults Without Children
According to the article "Healthy Indiana Plan to reopen to childless adults" by Ken Kusmer on usatoday.com, Indiana desires to enroll more childless adults in its state funded medical savings account. They will be reopening enrollment for them in th...
Health Insurance for Mexico Tourists Free of Charge
The story “Mexico Unveils New Travel Health Insurance Scheme to Win Back Tourists” by Karen Elowitt on petergreenberg.com explains the news that Mexico has made a bold move towards bringing back tourists. The Swine Flu has left an unwanted stigma...
Health Insurance for College Athletes
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) started to require universities to ensure their athletes had health insurance coverage before competing in sporting events about four years ago. The mistake that was made was that the Association di...
Employer Sponsored Health Insurance - What Does The Future Hold?
The article “Who Gets Employer-Based Health Insurance” by Catherine Rampell in the NYTimes Economix, has some great information on the issue of the health insurance debate going on in Washington, DC. They are trying to decide what to do with empl...
Health Insurance Reform - What Do Doctors Think
Lindsey Tanner wrote an article entitled “Doctors signal they’ll work with Obama” published in the Associated Press discussing Obama's meeting with the American Medical Association (AMA).The AMA is a group of doctors representing the nation. Tr...
Health Care Spending Needs to be Lowered
A report was released today by President Obama's economic team stating that the growth in health care spending needs to be decreased from 6% to 4.5% to show huge benefits for the economy. Some of these benefits would include creating up to 500,000 ne...
Oxford Health Insurance Quick Reference Guide for Swine Flu
With the US recently declaring a public health emergency in response to swine flu, Oxford Health Insurance, owned by UnitedHealthcare, put out a quick reference guide to better understand how to safeguard yourself and people around you. This has come...
Affordable Health Care Resources for Uninsured
The Orlando Sentinel recently highlighted community health care clinics, which provide health care services to the uninsured. Otherwise, many of these individuals would either go to the emergency room for minor ailments or go without treatment entire...
Lost Your Health Insurance? Tips to Deal With It
The Columbus Dispatch has some tips for people who have been laid off and are currently uninsured. These suggestions can save you money on your health care:If your health insurance hasn't yet ran out, get any necessary tests done before it does.Ask y...
Healthy Indiana Plan Nearing Capacity for Childless Adults
One year after the state launched a state-subsidized health care program for the uninsured, many people are in danger of losing access to Indiana health insurance due to an enrollment cap. Shari Rudaskvy from the Indianapolis Star says that the He...
UnitedHealth to Guarantee Your Right to Health Insurance
This is pretty strange: Golden Rule, a part of UnitedHealth, is now selling an insurance plan that ensures your future access to health insurance. The Continuity plan guarantees the right to health insurance in case you get laid off or your employer ...
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A proposal unveiled Wednesday by the health insurance industry would provide universal health coverage and hack away at medical costs through an outside group, and it has seen initial praise from an unlikely source.The proposal, offered by the Americ...
How Children Fare in the Health Care Debate
A report has detailed how children are treated in the health care plans of Senators John McCain and Barack Obama. The report identifies both opportunities and concerns with the policy changes outlined by both candidates, with an eye toward whether th...
McCain Health Plan And Tax Credit
John McCain's fix for health-care reform is based the logical Republican remedy: competition in the marketplace."John McCain is putting the American family in charge," said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, McCain's chief policy adviser, a former director of the ...
Easing The Pain Of Expensive Health Care
Roughly 63% of all uninsured workers are either self-employed or work for firms with fewer than 100 employees, and only 47% of businesses with fewer than 500 employees offer health insurance, down from 58% in 1997. How can entrepreneurs ease the pain...
Finding Affordable Health Insurance
Congress should to move toward providing access to guaranteed health insurance coverage to all Americans rather than expanding access to high-deductible health plans tied to health savings accounts that provide little benefit to low-income Americans ...
Univerasal Health Insurance
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vowed to continue pressing for legislation that would provide health insurance to the uninsured in California. The health care bill had been closely watched across the United States because of Californ...
The Candidates on Health Coverage
A look at positions of the 2008 presidential candidates and their healthcare plans:DEMOCRATS:Delaware Sen. Joe Biden: Expand health insurance to cover all children and to make catastrophic care available for all; look to states for ideas on universa...
