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Highmark Unveils A Great New Health Insurance Option For Individuals

January 21, 2012

Following the current trends in the health insurance market, Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield has created a new line of individual health insurance plans aimed at those that need low-cost health insurance without excessively high deductibles.  Their new Simply Blue line of individual health insurance policies offers significantly lower monthly premiums and more affordable deductibles.  [...]

Continuous Coverage Imperative For Diabetics

January 14, 2012

A recent study conducted by Kaiser Permanente shows that continuous health insurance coverage is imperative to those afflicted with Diabetes. Individuals who have diabetes were found to be significantly less likely to keep up with the required testing and required medications and treatments when they did not have continuous coverage through a health insurance provider. [...]

State and Federal Governments Submit Their Arguments To The Supreme Court

January 14, 2012

The United States Supreme Court has scheduled time in March of 2012 to hear arguments regarding Obama’s Affordable Care Act.  Twenty-Six state governments have filed briefs with the Supreme Court opposing parts of the Affordable Care Act.  The states included in the hearing are Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, [...]

Twenty Three States Are Awarded A Total Of Almost $300 Million In Bonuses

January 7, 2012

The United States Department of Health and Human Services announced that twenty three states were awarded a monetary bonus for meeting or exceeding the Medicaid enrollment target that was specified for them and for making improvements to the procedures they use while enrolling into the Children’s Health Insurance Program and Medicaid. The states that successfully [...]

One Dollar Per Person Health Insurance Fee For 2012

January 7, 2012

A little known provision on Barak Obama’s new health care law is the new fee that will be added to your health insurance in 2012.  The federal government is going to begin charging a one dollar per person fee.  Worse yet, those fees are scheduled to double for 2013 to two dollars per person. The [...]

Medicare Buy In Might Be Added To The Health Care Bill

December 30, 2011

The idea of the Medicare Buy-In was originally proposed during Bill Clinton’s time in office.  The concept always has and still does make sense.  The whole idea is simple.  People would be capable of paying a premium to obtain coverage through the present Medicare system.  This would be great news for thousands of Americans who [...]

The Supreme Court Sets Aside Some Time To Hear About Health Care Reform

December 27, 2011

The United States Supreme Court is scheduled to hear approximately five and a half hours of arguments on the subject of Obama’s Health Care Reform Bill. They will spread the oral arguments over a three day period in March from the twenty sixth to the twenty eighth of two thousand twelve. Signed into law March [...]

Fraudulent Health Insurance Policies In The Midwest

December 23, 2011

A company called ReAssurance has recently been caught for selling fraudulent insurance policies to consumers in four states.  Being that a person who has purchased a fraudulent health insurance policy would have no legitimate health insurance coverage, state officials are advising that anyone who has purchased an insurance policy from ReAssurance Health Insurance Group should [...]

Obama’s New Health Care Law Will Let States Decide Benefits

December 22, 2011

The Obama administration has decided that instead of the Federal government choosing which benefits health insurance companies will be required to offer, that they will pass that decision making power on to the state level governments instead.  This will not go into effect until 2014 when the full effect of the health care reform bill [...]

You Could Be Going To WalMart For Your Next Doctor’s Appointment

December 16, 2011

In a world where everything is based on convenience, why not be able to get your groceries in the same place that you go to get your physical?  That is exactly what Wal-Mart has in mind.  The retail giant already offers vision care at a large percentage of their locations as well as a pharmacy.  [...]

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