In six months the new plan will stop insurance discrimination against lower waged employees. The new plan will give aid to states that have offices for consumers to help them with complaints and appeals. The new plan will in six months ban companies from lifetime caps and limits in coverage. It will also…
Category Archives: Health Care Insurance
What In The HELthcare Has Passed?
About a month ago I heard on the news that Obamas new health care reform has passed Congress. Yeah? I got a couple of facts out of what I heard but not much, so I decided to look around the net and find the plan itself. I was going to read it line by line…
New Guidelines on Breast Exams
This story is not exactly new. I wrote about this a couple months ago. It’s a shame that women are being told not to bother with breast cancer tests all for the matter of money. Of course to the insurance companies it’s more important to save some bucks than womens lives. I’m not a doctor…
Michelle’s Law
Michelle’s Law is now in effect across the country. It states that a student can take up to a year off school for illness so that the student can remain on the families health insurance. It’s named after a college student called Michelle Morse who died of colon cancer in 2005 and who remained…
Unregulated Fake Health Insurance
I have noticed the last year or so I am getting quite a few offers in the mail from supposed insurance companies that claim to offer health coverage that is affordable and that sounds quite tempting. However some of these companies target the elderly and make them pay thousands and then deny services or…
New Study on Health Insurance
A new study finds what we’ve all known for some time, most Americans that try to buy personal health insurance end up not getting any simply because they cannot afford it. That translates into three out of four people, about 57% said they couldn’t find insurance that would meet their needs and that they…
How Many Times are They Going to Research This?
You’ll all be surprised to know that the uninsured are in poorer health than the insured. apparently this was studied again. Did they think there was a mistake made in the first bunch of studies? Maybe they thought that things would change on their own, like maybe people who don’t have insurance would stop…
What Do You Think Of This Theory?
Please forgive me for getting sidetracked with my families health issues, but it got me to wondering why the hospital my parents are going to is so underpar, and the one we go to is so much better. Also still trying to figure out about the 2 to 3 month wait for the colonoscopy,…
Why We Shouldn’t Detect Cancer Early
I am reading this article from the New York Times and I am blown away by what I’m seeing. I always was told and believed that detecting cancer early was a good thing so that treatment could be given before the cancer becomes so advanced as to metastasize and kill its victim. Unless I…
New Report, Same Old Story on The Ill Uninsured
One third of uninsured Americans has a chronic disease that is not being medically cared for. People who are uninsured typically only see the doctor through ER visits when the conditions have gotten very bad and out of control. These patients will have complications from their conditions and die younger after being prematurely disabled….