According to Anna Wilde Mathews in The Wall Street Journal (11, 20) Healthy Consumer Column, around 1.2 million jobs have been lost so far this year, pushing a large number of people to deal with losing the health benefits that come with unemployment.
Kathleen Murray, of consultant Mercer, claims that the best thing to do, if [...]
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Replacing health benefits after unemployment
Published by November 24th, 2008 in Health Insurance.0 Comments
Health coverage sluggish for N.C. kids
Published by November 17th, 2008 in Health Insurance.0 Comments
The amount of children without insurance in North Carolina was already increasing by the thousands, as the economy plummeted this year. N.C. is now ranked number 6Â in the U.S. for the amount of children lacking health insurance coverage. Surprisingly, most of these children, almost 300,000, lived with working parents.
Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau, [...]
U.S. has 9 million uninsured children
Published by October 27th, 2008 in Health Insurance.0 Comments
A recent study on children without health insurance showed that in many cases, at least one of their parents is covered by insurance. More than 3 percent of were not insured: 1,380 of 39,588 children. In about 90 percent of cases, the insured parents of kids with no coverage had a private plan instead of [...]
Things to consider when choosing a health plan
Published by September 30th, 2008 in Health Insurance.0 Comments
Health insurance can be very confusing, especially when terms like HMOs, PPOs or HSAs are thrown at you. To make it easier, you can begin sorting through your options by first thinking about your specific needs.
For example, someone who has a child away at college should consider whether a policy offers coverage outside its regular [...]
Uninsured hurricane victims will get prescription assistance from CMS
Published by September 17th, 2008 in Health Insurance.0 Comments
In the aftermath of hurricane Gustav and Ike, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have put into action the new Emergency Prescription Assistance Program (EPAP). This program will benefit uninsured disaster victims by providing them with one refill of their current prescriptions.
CMS will let hurricane victims from eastern Texas and southern Louisiana receive [...]
Maryland to furnish 50 percent of insurance premiums for small business employees
Published by September 9th, 2008 in Health Insurance.0 Comments
The Business Gazette (9/4 Shay) in Maryland has reported that a new system in Maryland “calls for a state subsidy of up to 50 percent of the insurance premium” for small businesses. Employers must have “two to nine full-time employees.” to qualify. Also, employers that “have not offered medical insurance to their employees during the [...]
Less Americans without health coverage
Published by August 28th, 2008 in Health Insurance.0 Comments
For the first time in seven years, the amount of people in the U.S. without health coverage fell in 2007. The number of uninsured fell from 47 million in 2006 to 45.7 million last year, mainly because of more government coverage. That is 15.3% of the population, which was formerly 15.8%.
Devon Herrick, health economist for [...]
