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PCIP Becomes Affordable

Health Insurance News // 01.06.2011

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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 [...]

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Free Colonoscopies, What a Bunch of Crap

Health Insurance News // 02.05.2011

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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 [...]

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Community Health Centers

Health Insurance News & Views // 18.04.2011

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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 [...]

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Health Insurance Underwriting Guidelines

Health Insurance Education // 28.03.2011

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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 [...]

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Health Reform Update March 24, 2011

Health Insurance News, Health Insurance Reform // 24.03.2011

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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 [...]

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Save a Broker Day!

Health Insurance News // 16.03.2011

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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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