The Uninsured
Let’s Get Married For The Health Insurance
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008The Wall Street Journal’s health blog skeptically examines a Kaiser study that suggests it is increasingly common for couples to marry mainly so that one spouse could gain eligibility for the other’s health insurance.
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Will You Marry Me for
Health Insurance?
Posted by Jacob Goldstein […]
Retired, Uninsured and Too Young For Medicare — Healthcare Options Growing
Monday, December 3rd, 2007The San Diego Union-Tribune has an interesting look at a new trend. Health insurance carriers want to sell individual policies to a really large niche, the 7 million baby boomers who remain uninusured.
Covering The Uncovered - San Diego Union-Tribune, Tom MurphyDecember 03, 2007
Insurers try to tap growing ranks of people too young for Medicare
Health […]
Should Small Businesses Provide Health Insurance?
Sunday, October 14th, 2007Is there a compelling reason for the small business owner to provide health insurance for their employees?
The California HealthCare Foundation takes a closer look.
What are the added benefits when employers begin to provide health insurance to their workers?
Employers themselves may experience reduced costs in other areas such as workers’ compensation, greater ease in recruiting […]
What is the purpose of individual health insurance?
Monday, October 8th, 2007Why buy individual health insurance?
“It is to pay those claims that are financially impossible to cover out
of your income & your savings. Nothing more, nothing less.” so says Bob Vinyard.
Why buy health insurance if you are healthy?
?One purchases insurance in advance of the need to
protect one’s assets against seizure or depletion in the event of […]
Numbers of uninsured continues to soar
Monday, October 8th, 2007The Kansas City Star reports on the health insurance situation according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute.
How long can we ignore this large and growing problem?*******
Proportion of nonelderly without health insurance rose to 17.9 percent in ’06
By DIANE STAFFORD
The Kansas City Star
The percentage of the U.S. population under age 65 without health
insurance increased last year […]
Health Insurance For The Young And Healthy
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007Out of the Red: You Can’t Afford to Skip Health Insurance
- The Charlotte Observer, Amy Baldwin
September 25, 2007
You’re young and healthy. What do you need health insurance for?
Well,
you might feel invincible, but accidents and unexpected illnesses can
happen to anyone, at any age. And medical bills are a leading cause of
financial turmoil, including personal bankruptcies.
Still, […]
Bush Uses SCHIP as Bargaining Chip
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007The Washington Post reports that President Bush is using his threatened veto of the re-authorization and expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program in order to convince congress to insert tax deductions for individually purchased health insurance.
Is it just me, or is it cheesy to hardball with sick kids as bargaining chips?
GOP Senator Says […]
36 States now investigating Mini-Med policies as deceptive
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007The USA Today takes a flinty-eyed look at HealthMarkets Mega-Life’s mini-med policies.
It’s about time. Most policies like this are unmitigated BS, but cleverly designed to appear similar to real health insurance coverage.
So what’s really going on here? In my opinion, these mini-med plans are designed to be superficially similar to a “real” health insurance […]
Uninsured spreads to middle class and working people
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007America’s uninsured are in the news again, by virtue of a Census Bureau report released late last month showing that, as The Washington Post put it, “The nation’s poverty rate declined last year for the first time this decade, but the number of Americans without health insurance rose to a record 47 million,” or to […]
Bush Administration Limits Healthy Families
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007Recently President Bush threatened to veto any expansion of the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
Today, stepping up its fight to stop any expansion of the popular (and in my opinion sensible) program, the federal government announced new regulations that introduce tight new restrictions on the rules of who qualifies.
Here’s the report from the New York Times,
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