Sad news today America! In what will most likely truly hurt many Americans, the subsidy to help laid-off workers afford and continue their health insurance ends today Wednesday, August 31st. If you wonder how the long term unemployed will continue to afford their Cobra payments you are not alone. Unlike the PCIP program which no [...]
News August 26, 2011
Health Insurance News // 26.08.2011Experts Predict 165 Million Americans Will Be Obese By 2030. ABC World News (8/25, story 7, 2:00, Stephanopoulos) reported, “Tonight, sobering new numbers on America’s struggle with obesity.” A new series on obesity published in “the medical journal Lancet says if trends continue, half of all American men will be obese by 2030.” Bloomberg News [...]
Workers Unite, And Appeal!
Health Insurance News // 16.06.2011Did you recently have a medical claim denied by your employer sponsored group health insurance plan? Did you breast enlargement procedure go horribly wrong and people now call you Frankenboob? You might be entitled to get the claims decisions appealed! On January 1st of this year, all 44 million Americans on a group plan [...]
MLR News For the Rebate Hungry
Health Insurance News // 07.06.2011In what can only be described as the most unexpected news since the Taliban learned about disco last week, Aetna has announced a premium drop in the 3rd quarter. Yes you don’t need to reload this page, you read that correctly, Aetna is lowering premiums. Ok so its only in Connecticut, and its only 10%, [...]
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PCIP Becomes Affordable
Trying to spur enrollment in a key new benefit of the 2010 health law, the Obama administration announced today it is slashing premiums for new high-risk insurance plans and no longer requiring applicants to submit a rejection letter from private insurers. PCIP (or Pre-Exisiting Conditions Insurance Plan) has finally become affordable. The initial enrollment was [...]
Continue →Free Colonoscopies, What a Bunch of Crap
As most Americans know by now, colonoscopies are very essential to prevent colon cancer which are used to spot colorectal cancer which will kill about 50,000 Americans this year. After the government changed our health care laws, health insurance plans were now being required to cover most preventative care services such as colonoscopies as a [...]
Continue →Community Health Centers
One of the most overlooked assets available to those that don’t have private health insurance is the community health center. These centers see almost 20 million patients per year and by 2015 due to health reform, that number is expected to double. Because the ranks of the uninsured has risen to 50 million, local community [...]
Continue →Health Insurance Underwriting Guidelines
One of the craziest things that has ever happened to me as a webmaster in health insurance happened when I started getting inundated with harassing phone calls and emails from the insurance companies for posting underwriting guidelines in my website. I don’t know why these documents are so secretive and guarded but I can say [...]
Continue →Health Reform Update March 24, 2011
They’re Taking Our Jobs The one thing that is becoming crystal clear about the ObamaCare health reform act is that no one understands it or more importantly understands its implications. Recent data “published this week by a left-leaning policy think tank contradicted Republican claims that the law will exacerbate unemployment rates — but it also [...]
Continue →Save a Broker Day!
In a substantial news piece today in both the New York Times and Politico, it seems that both parties are coming to the rescue of the endangered health insurance broker! Don’t look now, but there are about a half million health insurance brokers that are buying new cars today! (I bought one over the weekend). [...]
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