Video library to address health insurance concerns (News-Medical-Net)
My Insurance Expert, one of the nation’s leading online services to compare and secure affordable health insurance, has launched a video library “Q&A” of unbiased perspectives on various health care insurance topics including how health care reform may affect individual and group coverage, determining the correct amount of co-pay and deductible, how to compare policies correctly, health savings …
Health care reformers eye private insurance firms (Newsday)
A 2007 survey by the Commonwealth Fund , a private foundation that researches health care issues, estimated that 36 percent of those who tried to buy health plans directly from an insurance company were denied coverage or charged a higher price because of their medical history. President Barack Obama has pledged to make it illegal for health insurers to deny someone health insurance because of a …
My Insurance Expert Launches Health Insurance Video Library Q&A (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
TROY, Mich.—-My Insurance Expert, one of the nation’s leading online services to compare and secure affordable health insurance, has launched a video library “Q&A” of unbiased perspectives on various health care insurance topics including how health care reform may affect individual and group coverage, determining the correct amount of co-pay and deductible, how to compare policies correctly …
Health Insurance Premiums Rising Much Faster Than Wages, Report Says (Georgia Public Broadcasting News)
Health insurance premiums in Georgia are rising much faster than people’s salaries, according to a report released Thursday. The head of a national organization that advocates for affordable health care calls Georgia one of the worst states in the country when it comes to increases in health insurance premiums. The group, Families USA, looked at 17 states, including Georgia. They based their …
Health care rises faster than pay in Illinois, group says (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
WASHINGTON — A national advocacy group says health insurance premiums rose five times faster than earnings in Illinois from 2000 to 2009. More details are scheduled for release Thursday in a report from Families USA, a group working to expand health care coverage.
Cost of health insurance rising faster than pay (The Pantagraph)
A national advocacy group says health insurance premiums rose five times faster than earnings in Illinois from 2000 to 2009.
President Obama Appeals for Union Support on Health Bill but Some Unclear on Small Business Health Insurance (PRWeb)
President Barack Obama rallied organized labor in Ohio to back his health insurance overhaul, but some owners are still unsure of the details for small business health insurance and self employed health insurance. The Small Business Health Insurance Network, sbhi.net, offers information and a way for entrepreneurs to find individual and group health insurance quotes. (PRWeb Sep 17, 2009) Read …
President Obama Appeals for Union Support on Health Bill but Some Unclear on Small Business Health Insurance (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
President Barack Obama rallied organized labor in Ohio to back his health insurance overhaul, but some owners are still unsure of the details for small business health insurance and self employed health insurance. The Small Business Health Insurance Network, sbhi.net, offers information and a way for entrepreneurs to find individual and group health insurance quotes.
Hawaii health insurance costs far outpacing wages, group says (Honolulu Advertiser)
Hawaii’s health insurance premiums grew an estimated 3.7 times faster than worker earnings during the past decade, according to a new report from a group advocating affordable health care.
Firms see group health insurance costs double (Business Standard India)
Companies are seeing the cost of buying health insurance for their employees more than double, with insurers increasing the premium on group covers to partly cover mounting losses after they lost the option of cross-subsidising it with more lucrative property covers.