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Recent Posts Tagged With 'individual health insurance'
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...
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 ...
Health Care Propsal Consumer Feedback
Neither presidential candidate has provided a health-care position that is resonating strongly with Americans -- unless they are uninsured or fear they soon could be.Beyond a few overlapping ideas on preventive care and health-information technology,...
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 ...
eHealthinsurance Report on Rates
A 2007 research study from eHealthInsurance found that individual health insurance premiums ranged from a low of $98 (in Iowa) to as high as $338 (in New York) - the national average was $148.The disparity health insurance rates can be partly explai...
Private Health Insurance
The individual health insurance market is growing with the proliferation of micro-businesses, entrepreneurs, and companies no longer offering health coverage to their employees.These days, the same people who traded company pension plans for self-...
McCain's Proposed Health Plan and effect on Employer Sponsored Coverage
Adapted From AP ArticleThe unkown about Sen. John McCain's health plan is how many employers will react, and more speifically, how many would drop health insurance coverage for their workers because of the tax policy changes?The Republican presidenti...
People Need Good Health Insurance
A recent study has shown that when Ohio residents buy individual health insurance or through other groups (other than employers) they usually don't have very good health insurance coverage.The report shows, "We need to not only insure more people, bu...
Individidual Health Insurance in Maine
The individual health insurance market in Maine is broken.The superintendent of insurance has approved premium increases of more than 100% over the last five years; the average deductible sold in this market has increased substantially over the sa...
Rural America Hurt by Health Insurance Pinch
Even if a farmer or rancher has a thriving business and has health insurance coverage, he or she may have a tough time paying for doctor visits or hospital stays.This was documented in a report issued by the Access Project, an affiliate of the Schnei...
