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Now Over 45 Million Americans Lack Health Insurance

This year in the first six months around 45.4 million Americans of all the ages had no health insurance, according to the National Health Interview Survey statistics released recently. In addition, 58.4 million people of all the ages had been uninsured for at least part of the year prior to the interview, and 31.9 million had been uninsured for more than a year, according to a report from the U.S. Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention’s National Center of Health Statistics. The findings are from the data analyses of almost 32,700 respondents. NHIS data collected since 1957 is used widely to monitor health trends. Among the other results from the year January to June: • At the time of interview the percentage of children under 18 without health insurance was 8.2% • Among the adults up to 64years old, 60.6%of those who were unemployed and had been uninsured for at least part of the past year. • Among the people under age 65 with private health insurance, 22.7% were enrolle

Reasons For Why US Health Care Reform Is Needed

1. Due to the Lack of Health Coverage every year, over 10,000 U.S citizens faces death: It is total moral issue, if you are against a health care reform then it means that you don’t value for the life of thousands of Americans. 2. There are 450,000 numbers of doctors who supports Health Insurance Reform: In lot of interviews it is seen that the doctors complain about the problems associated to get the private health insurance companies to cover the care needed for the patients. The doctors favor the health care reforms. So who should you listen to? The doctors who want to heal us or the health insurance companies who just want to make money and some politician who just want to make money out of it. 3. To keep the growing cost under control: Presently, the U.S. spends a lot on health care than any other country in the world but still it not satisfied results in return despite spending so much money. So clearly U.S needs to do something to keep the cost under control which can b

Impact Of Health Insurance Reform On Ohio Explains White House Report

Washington: A report was released on 23rd of November by the White House projects about the 1.4 million Ohioans who does not have the health insurance and the 533,000 who are insured through non-group plans could get the affordable coverage as a result of health result reform. Kathleen Sebelius, Health and Human Services Secretary released the report, Health Insurance Reform and Ohio: The Case for Change is now available on the web as a part of the White House push for the insurance reform in Congress. “Families, businesses and seniors are all suffering under the health care status quo,” Sebelius said. “Our new reports demonstrate how the health insurance reform will improve health care for all Americans.” Some 942,000 residents of Ohio could qualify for the premium tax credits to help them to purchase health coverage. And 1.8 million citizens in Ohio would be given free medical care and 325,000 seniors would have their brand their brand name drug costs in the Medicare Part D “doughnut

Is Indian Healthcare a Part of The American Dream

Bangalore: Has the Indian healthcare now become the part of American dream? The Cayman government for the set up of a health city in one of its islands has chosen Dr. Devi Shetty from India. He is a pioneer cardiac surgeon and his hospital, Narayana Hrudalaya, offers a low-cost, comprehensive medical care in India. The distance of Cayman Island from Florida is just 52 minutes, whereas replica of health care city in Bangalore will be made there. This will give low-cost healthcare to the American patients, who otherwise find it expensive. The debate on the US health reform is still on the boil and over 50 million of US are not covered by the health insurance, whereas this model will help people in Florida and the neighboring states to go there and get access to health services. “Obama is trying hard for favorable reforms in the sector but it doesn’t look like it is going to get through. The healthcare system in US is advanced and expensive as well. What about people who do not have insu

Lack of Insurance linked to the 17,000 Child Deaths

In United States according to a report from the researchers at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore an estimated 17,000 children have died over two decades because they didn’t have the health insurance Researchers said that the kids who did not have the health insurance were 60% more likely to die in the hospital in compared to the kids who had the insurance. After the adjustment such as of differences as gender and race, still the uninsured kids were 37.8% more likely to die than the kids with the insurance coverage. David C. Chang, co-director of pediatric surgery outcomes research group at Hopkins and a study co-author, said that he could not think of a medical treatment that has such a dramatic impact on the health outcomes the health insurance seemingly does. "This is actually something we as a society can choose to do something about," he said. "It is literally with stroke of somebody's pen, this could be changed." The article was published on 30th

How To Find Affordable Health Insurance Quotes Online

To ask your health agent and request him to send you the estimates of the health insurances for you and your family over the web is one option. You can also get information through the mail. Or you can compile information from different agents. Though technically, this is one way to get multiple health insurance quotes through the internet. But practically speaking, this is not the right way to use the internet. But this way you will not enjoy the benefits involved in the searching for the health insurance estimates on the web. Another option is to visit the health insurance provider’s website and get the estimates. Different websites is designed in different ways. Some of the health insurance companies will simply put the estimates best events on your screen and will leave you to choose the best among them. Whereas, there are some insurance websites those require specific information before providing the estimate. This involves your social security number and other details and the las

According To a Study: Uninsured Trauma Patients More Likely To Die

Tuesday November 17 (Health Day News) - New research says that the Americans without the health insurance are more likely to die after admission to the hospital with trauma injuries. “After admission to hospital, trauma patients can have the worst outcomes based on insurance status,” the author of the study wrote. “This finding warrants more rigorous investigation to determine why such variation in mortality would exist in a system where equivalent carte is not only expected by mandated by law.” Dr. Heather Rosen, from the Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, and some colleague analyzed statistics from the National Trauma Data Bank, which tracked 2.7 million trauma patients admitted to over 900 U.S trauma centers. The researchers looked at 687,091 those were adult and were admitted between 2002 and 2006. Even when researchers tried adjusting the statistics to eliminate the influence of the factors such as age, gender and race that may throw off the results still patie

Health Insurance For Unemployed

When you see the unemployed rates in America, it has increased up to 8.5% in 2009 April as compared to 4.9% of last year. Being a part of that rank is stressful enough but this becomes a major misfortune when you loss out your health insurance. Especially for those people who lost their jobs recently and those who have been insured through an employer for most of their time, they are not really aware there are many options available to prevent them from becoming uninsured. Most people when they become unemployed rely on public health insurance programs. There are many options available for health insurance for the unemployed. You can see some of the health insurance programs offered for unemployed below: Medicaid The Medicaid is a health insurance program which is for eligible families or individuals with low income or resources. This program is funded by both the state and federal governments. In some cases, Medicaid may help those people, who have lost their jobs or have their hour j

Get yourself Health Insurance Online and save your precious time

In today’s time, taking risks especially regarding your health is definitely not a good idea. It is always advisable to minimize your health risk by getting a good health insurance plan to be safe. It will ensure you with providing help in the time of troubles and will let you save a lot of money if you are required to perform any expensive procedures for being fit. Getting yourself a health insurance will help you in taking care of your health With the advancement of technology in today’s world, most of the things can be obtained through internet. Now, online health insurance service providers can give you a medical coverage within 24hours. There are three easy steps given which you can follow and get yourself health insurance. Find Quotes: Make the use of internet tool and search for online insurance providers. Check out some reliable sites which relates to some of the official statistics or surveys. You can also read some of the comments given by other consumers in their blog. Most

Top Questions You Should Ask Yourself Before Buying Health Insurance

Before you set out to buy your life insurance, there are some things you need to sort out. Here are some of the few questions that will help you to assess your insurance needs. Do you maintain a saving or do you live on paychecks monthly? Why you need to answer this question is that if you do not have a saving then, a health plan with low deductible will be good for you. If you have kept a saving account then you can well afford a higher deductible though you can find a plan with a lower premium. Do you have any preexistent medical conditions? Often people with pre existing conditions like cancer or diabetes find it difficult to get the approval for Family and Individual coverage. But don’t be alarmed as there are many insurance companies who approve this particular kind of applications. Do you visit your doctor often? If you do visit your doctor often then, it does make sense to pay higher premium monthly to keep the office-visit copayment as well as the deductible low. If the visit i

Health Insurance Is For Your Need, Not For Your Want

To be truth, insurance is not compulsory for most but if you ever purchase a health insurance plan, you must do it for your needs. Many people just purchase their health insurance without realizing what they really need it for. They just want a health insurance and out they go ahead. There is a difference between want and need. If you are out to buy health insurance, first of all understand why you need the insurance for. You must understand the value of the health insurance. Many people just don’t understand the purpose of health insurance and how it would work for them. Understand the terminology of health insurance, when you go shopping for it. If you know, there are four types of Family and Individual plans and you must understand the basic differences between them. There are the PPO or "Preferred Provider Organization, HMO or Health Maintenance Organization, HSA-eligible Plans and the Indemnity plans. Again selecting the best health insurance for your needs requires making an

Health Insurance does offer a better way of life for youngsters as well

Many people were up with the call of ‘health care for all’ just outside the City Hall on 22nd Sep, 2009. Everybody wanted to have better health care options. Health is important to all, be it a kid, youngster, adult or aged person. Generally today’s youngsters hardly pay heed to their health much. They just binge on junk food and lead a drastic lifestyle, it results in poor health. There are many organizations which are now encouraging the student to know how important the health is and also the various health policies which are available for their benefits. Students should be actively involved politically with the raising issues like proper health because they are the one who can guide the adults and inform them about the importance of health insurance. Student health insurance has benefits which last till the age of 25. Though, the students use to get benefits of their parents insurance which includes full family. But now with the student policy they can insure themselves from the he

Health Insurance: Just The Way To Keep Yourself younger!!

‘Health is Wealth’ is a famous saying; it tells you how much health is important in our daily lives. If you are healthy you can battle with any kind of situations. It affects you in both personal as well as professional life. Health insurance is the measures which you take in order to lead a peaceful life. All of us get sick in our lives. So why not secure yourself before suffering from bad health. In recent times health insurance has been growing its popularity. There are many insurance policy companies coming up, which offer you with you with the facility of health care policy. Recently, in Washington the Democrats have talked of health insurance in Senate and House. They want affordable health policies for people of the US and that too which offers quality health benefits. And now it has become challenging to keep the costs low and then to offer maximum coverage. There are still people left uninsured which is really a thoughtful situation. With the possibility of sudden new virus a

Health Insurance Goes Up By 10%

The workers in Chicago should prepare to contribute for health insurance premiums paying out 9 percent in addition to out of pocket costs. The average cost the employees pay would be for the insurance premiums which would go from $1,922 to $2116 with the average out of pocket costs being high as shown in a study. The online advertisers job were basically flat making the rates to dip to 100 posting in a conference board. The vacancies dropped by 17.4% in September 2008. The statewide vacancies were same over the month failing which would drop the rate at 22 percent. The advertisers job fell by 2.9 percent in September making you achieve jobs. This trend has been moderately achieved to 40,000 per month over the last 5 months. There were around 4.3 job seekers for every posting nationally which would make the rates even more lower down. The average price of the unleaded regular gas in Chicago fell 5 cents making you go down 15 cents in a month.

The Obama Health Plan- A Relief For Most Americans

The masses of uninsured continue to grow as health insurance costs continue to soar up. If you could see the overall health plan in America, it is relatively very poor as compared to other industrialized nations. Well folks now you will have a reason to smile, as the President has a new healthcare plan for you. According to the Obama health plan, those who already have a health insurance will provides more security and stability and for those who don’t, they will have a better option to have one. The new government seems to take the issue of the high insurance premiums more seriously and now they have come up with a new plan that can prove to be a quality and affordable choice for all. If you want to know what the Obama health plan holds for you then you can read them below. For those who have health insurance, the Obama plan will Protect seniors’ Medicare End bias against those with pre-existing conditions. Prevent insurance companies from dropping coverage when the insured is sick a

Health Insurance – Why is it so expensive?

Believe it or not, health insurance has become one of the biggest monthly expenses for most Americans. This is the only reason that has brought many people in America to stay without any insurance cover. It is a serious matter that there are millions of people who are without any insurance cover. The government needs to take a drastic and immediate change with the health care policies to make it more affordable for the mass. But the question here is why on earth health insurance is so expensive? What do you think is the probable cause for this or is there more than just one cause. Let’s have a look at this. The innovation and advancement in technology have brought many changes in the world of medicine. But that change has also affected the cost of medicine as well. Now, the cost of medicines is so high that insurance companies have imposed high premiums just to cover it. With the higher costs of premiums, employers are now not able to afford the coverage and they are seeking high perce

Lack Of Health Insurance Increase Up More Deaths

A new study found that an estimated 45,000 deaths occur each year with lack of insurance coverage- a finding which would bolster the case for health insurance reform which is debated in Congress this year. This study conducted by researchers at Harvard Medical School represents the latest effort to gauge the effects of health insurance on American’s health. People who don’t have access to health care tend to have more serious health outcomes. The 45 million Americans are currently uninsured which would make the results more impacted on healthy policy makers. This plans are being debated in Congress, which would leave 17 million Americans outside of health care plan. The data analyzed by study was taken from NHANES-III which is a survey of Americans taken between age group of 17-64 started in 1998 followed in 2000. The researchers adjusted the data for possible factors such as age, gender, income, education, and alcohol consumption which all lead to affecting mortality rate. A survey re

No Health Insurance Leads To Higher Death Risks

In a new study, researchers estimate that 45,000 deaths per year in U.S are associated with not having health insurance making the estimate appear in advance online edition of American Journal. The Data came from about 9000 people aged 17 to 64 years who took part in government health survey between 1994 following though 2000. During this year’s about 3% of participants died leading to health insurance were the average amount was 40% more likely for people with health insurance regardless of factors like age, gender, race, income, education & health status. The researchers then applied the finding to U.S data which calculated around 44,789 deaths among working age in 2005 associated with lack of insurance. The study at Cambridge Health Alliance which is associated with Harvard Medical School now works at University of Washington. This team rules out the factors, making results rule out anywhere. This note has people without health insurance which make them achieve preventive care w

U.S Uninsured Brings Health Coverage

As there is always a debate going on how to reform U.S health care systems many of the Americans without medical insurance hopes to bring reforms with affordable coverage. A person named Burrows was exposed to Orange Agent which is a toxic herbicide used by U.S Military for defoliant since he has been linked to numerous diseases. This person is retired on partial disability but as of March he had emergency surgery made to remove blockages in his arteries making him cost thousands of dollars in medical bills. On get to know about such a reform will lead to relax and make something which would be beneficial to people like them who are uninsured. Many uninsured would pay up for affordable coverage. But many are angry at private health insurers. A survey of uninsured voters showed that around 56 percent people described U.S healthcare systems as poor and around 48 percent said the health care costs caused them to miss credit card or payments. This results in more and more people enrolling

Self Insured People Don’t Need New Medical Insurance

The new medical insurance laws extend the length of COBRA Coverage and allow parents to carry their dependants for company health insurance plans. As an employer one needs to be self insured with benefits offered through insurance companies. A self insured employer pays claims with its fund and assumes this at his own risk. There are large employers and unions which access to such great communities with stringent laws being placed on insured plans in state insurance laws. This new statue increases the period of coverage with upto 36 months for workers who have health insurance benefits. This length of coverage depends on why such benefits have been lost out. As per the coverage of federal COBRA there are various exception to this rule. The workers who have lost health insurance can get benefited from COBRA coverage up to 2 years. Even if the employer works for companies with 20 or more employees this group would cover federal laws making them eligible for 18 months of COBRA health insu

Do College Students Need Health Insurance

Colleges and universities across the country are increasingly enforcing students to take health insurance making them enrolled into plan through registration. This has been practice since many years with five colleges and universities, whose students say that this form of monitoring would make usage of health insurance as the main reason why people are focusing more on this sector. The reason for making such plans compulsory is enabling them to enroll into cheaper rates making them beneficiary. The plans among the local institute range in their offerings and costs. For the uninsured students a school can’t afford school plan making them use such facility. At Central State University the students need to automatically enter into health plan on enrollment regardless of whether they are insured. The students may purchase a plan through the university verifying the coverage with quarterly checking up of them. In the past year, the university has bumped efforts to encourage students to obt

Health Insurance A Younger Option

The current debate regarding health care seems to center around the world where there needs to be a public option run by government. The democrats say that public option is necessary to hold down on health care insurance costs, which would provide competition for profit health care monolith so that people who do not have health care insurance needs another choice. Without competition the health care costs would continue to spiral out of control. If the competition is good for holding down costs, one needs to take the most fundamental choice out of every consumer making purchase of product very expensive. To choose not to have health insurance is the weapon one may required against the high costs. If the young adults get old and require health care one need to pay up for the guarantee which health care won’t need. There is a general agreement between today’s young adults who would work for lives to pay for older American retirements left for them. Taking away the consumer rights of the

Employment Health Insurance Is In Trouble

American’s who have health insurance are terrified of losing it. Many assume that employment based insurance is preferable to other systems as well. There are employers who unnecessary get feared wherein they don’t need to worry at all. There are hundreds of millions of Americans who have health insurance through the job, which includes Medicare, Medicaid, which don’t require employers to change the coverage or the doctor. There are lots of people with employer-provided insurance making them lose out. Still they may be satisfied with them in the future. The percentage of total people covered by employment based health insurance fell from 59.3% in 2007 to 58.5% in 2008, the percentage of those working full time and part time would lack health insurance rising them in 2008. There are many Americans who have insurance which may be getting them through the government. Since 2000 there is generally a period of low unemployment with a portion of population getting insurance directly from gov

Health Insurance Plan Proposed For Small Businesses

Small Businesses would benefit from a new health insurance program which could reduce the premiums by as much as 22 percent. This so called Health Insurance Plan is awaiting debate among state lawmakers. This program is backed by state’s health insurers, as well as some small business advocates. This plan is opposed to doctors group and hospitals. This is a solution to a complex problem which needs great attention. This would bridge the gap for small business coverage till a more comprehensive coverage takes place in the state. This bill would place a cap on the reimbursement rates for hospitals and doctors which would provide people to serve the role in the national debate over health care. As of now, the median monthly premium for family coverage would be through a small business with an employer of 50 or more employees which is around $1,000. This bill would cap the reimbursement rates for all providers with no more than 110% for all covered services other than outpatient benefits.

Fines Being Taken From Those Who Are Uninsured

Americans who fail to sign up for a insurance could have to pay a fine amounting to $3,800. These proposed fines are a part of proposal from D-Mont, a moderate who as of now is heading the Financial Committee. This plan would guarantee coverage for all Americans at a cost to the taxpayers which are under $900 billion from 10 years. Many consider this as a bargain, as the country spends around $2.5 trillion each year on health care. These fines would stick to enforce a proposed requirement making Americans aware regarding the health insurance, and cover the auto insurance as much as possible. This penalty would start at around $750 a year for individuals and around $1500 for families. The coverage for families would be around $3,800 and for individuals it would be $950. The health insurance would credit the tax to help pay premiums for households making us increased by three times the poverty level, and small employers paying up average middle class wages. The people who are working for

Working Parents Losing Out Health Insurance

Around 10,000 working parents would be losing health insurance due to state budget cuts making families looking out for affordable coverage. There is a special program taken up by Arizona Health Care System for low family incomes. This program faces a $3 million shortfall due to current budget crisis. The state of Arizona is in fiscal crisis which is making difficult decisions across the board. The state program was a extension of federal State Children’s Health Insurance Program in Arizona. So to become eligible for coverage, the families would require to make less than 2 times the federal poverty level which would be about $44,000 a year for the family. To administer for such a program for parents, Arizona received $18 million federal grants to administer for program of parents. If such a program ends the low income families would be affected very much as they would not be able to afford any other program. There are programs run by state governments which provide basic care on slidi

Working Parents Losing Out Health Insurance

Around 10,000 working parents would be losing health insurance due to state budget cuts making families looking out for affordable coverage. There is a special program taken up by Arizona Health Care System for low family incomes. This program faces a $3 million shortfall due to current budget crisis. The state of Arizona is in fiscal crisis which is making difficult decisions across the board. The state program was a extension of federal State Children’s Health Insurance Program in Arizona. So to become eligible for coverage, the families would require to make less than 2 times the federal poverty level which would be about $44,000 a year for the family. To administer for such a program for parents, Arizona received $18 million federal grants to administer for program of parents. If such a program ends the low income families would be affected very much as they would not be able to afford any other program. There are programs run by state governments which provide basic care on slidi

Nrega Workers Being Provided Health Cover by Govt

The Central Government of India has planned to provide health insurance cover for all NREGA workers, a move which may incur a expenditure on UPA, with the potential to deepen the credentials of the government. The UPA is in constant discussion with a plan to extend the smart card driven health insurance cover to all NREGA workers. The beneficiaries of rural job scheme are those who have worked for 15 or more are entitled for this scheme. To implement this plan would require extra burden on rural ministry which have been able to identify APL beneficiaries among the workers. This may be enormous given that 75% of costs of health insurance would be borne by the centre. This scheme which proves as panacea to all problems would be attracting poor in big numbers. The cost of implications for the proposal would be known only once it achieves saturation. This records shows that around 4.5 crore rural households are getting employed in 2008-2009 with the current levels of performance being hit

Older People Paying Up More for Health Insurance

When buying health insurance policy one question arises is that should older people pay more than the younger ones? The variation of health premiums cost by age is a issue which focuses for customers aged 55 and are charged more by the insurers, which would make them visit doctors and hospitals very frequently. The insurance firms think that the spread is too narrow which would want them to charge with those at the top of age five times with as much younger people. Anything which is less than this would cost a shift, with younger generation shouldering them with the expense for the naturally higher health care costs than individual who are older. The insurance provided by large employers has very little price variation which is based on employee’s age would not be affected by anyone. To purchase health insurance on the open market can be very adventurous for those over the age of 55. In some markets the cost disparity between older and younger customers would be in ratio of 11:1. This

Health Insurance Small Businesses Burden

As the health insurance premiums are going up by 28%, the owner of Bookshop Santa Cruz would be wondering as to how long she would be able to offer health benefits to employees. Many Restaurants business expects to pay 14 percent more for health premiums which the owner can’t afford for the employees. All this business owners welcome health care reforms for as long as it lowers the costs. The health care affordability is a very big problem, which would result in a survey of 700 California’s small business indicating the support of health care reform. Among such findings are the following: 86% are those people who don’t offer health insurance, say they can’t afford it. 86% believe that people should be able to buy health insurance without any regard to health problems. Around 81% support for creating a new system which is a health insurance exchange, where small businesses could result in a comparison shop by choosing from competing plans. This type of health insurance has helped with e

Premiums For Health Insurance Rises By 29%

A Major Health Insurance provider in New York may have made various compelling cases for creating “public option” to health care coverage. This letter states that health insurance premium rises by 29% in October. This is not only a staggering issue but would raise the prospect of having cost of family’s health insurance coverage which double in around next four years. After such a letter or say announcement the first reaction of many clients was a question as to what was the need to increase the health insurance costs by 29%. The second question that jitters the mind was which health insurance companies would want to raise the rates by 29% in terms of such recession. Many businesses across the country are reducing the rates so as to balance out the pressures on them. This circumstance arises due to two reasons. Either the company has insufficient competition or the customers have difficulty shifting to a competitor. The customers for such companies are generally locked in, forcing the

Six U.S Insurance Firms Targeted For Probe

The top six health insurers in U.S have received letters from U.S Rep. Henry Waxman seeking the details about practices for small businesses. A Louisville based Incorporation Company is among six health insurers which have received letters. There are various insurers who have received letters which include Aetna Inc, United Health Group Inc, Well Point Inc, Media, and Well Mark Blue Cross Incorporation. The U.S Representative said that the health insurers would terminate the coverage to small business by canceling the policies or raising premiums which are unaffordable. In response to this letters America’s Health Insurance Plans said that there is a trade group which represents these companies. The investigation was designed to smear up the private companies and thus bolster the support for public insurance option. This committee would request information and documents for small group policies which would include renewal rates, factors all of which would determine the premium rates wi

Why Health Insurance Is Doomed

Huntington’s disease is very cruel whose symptoms emerge in middle age. The cognitive functions waste away wherein the victims become vulnerable to heart disease, physical injury and depression. A recent survey revealed that as many as 27% people attempt to suicide leading to such a condition. Also if you have a parent having this disease there is a 50% Chance that you inherit this disease. Such a disease in its unusual degree of predictability will glimpse up in the future with advanced genetic screening which would give you a richer and fuller portrait of disease risk which would be faced up. In this world of health of health insurers one need to have reliable sense of how a client would incur medical losses over the time. In 2007 a economist argued that such a technological revolution would eventually lead to single-payer runned health systems in all the democracies. The private insurers would depend on careful management of risk, but as one improves the ability to forecast the fut

Health Insurance for Self-Employed People

For the self-employed people the joys of entrepreneurship are often laid by worries for health insurance. Whether an individual is about to make a move from having an employer to being self-hosted which have been operating as a sole person for some time in the expense of health insurance. The individuals who want to leave their current employer and become self employed can preserve their health insurance coverage by signing up COBRA Act. This would allow the workers to extend their benefit for upto 18 months after which they would leave their job. This newly self employed employees should always be prepared with a large health insurance premium which would cost around 50-80 percent of plans total cost as their employers would no longer be picking up the portion of insurance cost. The most important consideration for people who would qualify for COBRA will enter the self-employment arena which cant deny any coverage for pre-existing condition. Once these benefits are run out, they would

Local Insurers Mark a Shift from Group to Individual Insurance

As health care costs are cutting down employers are searching out for the ways and means by which they can change employee’s health insurance plans. With the current economy it is important for people to evaluate the health insurance which needs to be covered under the employment based health schemes which would purchase the insurance coverage from private company through a purchase plan. The main concern for individuals is that it is less expensive for them to remain in employer based plan which is more effective than to purchase a individual health insurance. There is a misconception that group health insurance plans have lower co-pays with better premiums but it is not always true. A group plan must offer better coverage and lower co-pays but an individual needs to consider the overall cost which include the built up of premium to determine the alternative one would like to have. So it is difficult to justify which coverage plan one chooses due to higher premiums. In the last years

Health Insurance Companies Need Not Exist

There is actually no reason for health insurance companies to exist out. One need not have to add value to everything they want. All the companies do is add layers of paperwork when people get severely ill. The sicker one gets the bigger one will have to fight with the insurance companies. There was an incident wherein the person fighted with the insurance company till he died due to illness. Seeing this one can say that health insurance is a good idea but spreading out cost of health care would result into paying up of huge amount to the system even when the person is healthy which would lead to subsidizing of care if sick. This problem arises with the introduction of profit motive, which skews up everything. This motive transforms insurance into a legalized protection racket which would make health insurance take a back seat to the profits. This is the reason why it would make more sense to make government do what amount needs to be controlled and minimized with the focus to provide

Survey Reveals That Health Insurance Premium Could Increase

A New study projects that with rapid increase in employer sponsored health insurance the premiums increase over the next 10 years which say that premiums would rise by 94% in the year 2010 with severely trained families and employers. A study revealed out that the premiums for employer sponsored insurance continue to rise at current rates with the average premium for family coverage which increases by around 94% as stated now. The study also noted that employers pay most of costs of premiums, from whom the workers suffer stagnated wages and reduced savings with employer looking for ways to cut corners for health insurance. A latest trend reveals that there is just 119 percent rise in health insurance premiums with median income rising to just 29 percent. Even with trade-offs for lower pay, the workers are contributing to cost of employer based health care which would eat up small wages they increase for receiving them based on what they have. The study found that health care reform wo

Public Health Insurance Is Not an Alternative

The inclusion of government public health care plans has become most contentious elements for health reform packages which would be the major point discussed in Congress. Like an insurance plan one would have benefits, co-pays, provider networks and monthly premiums. This option of life insurance public plan would seem to be controversial and then on business would be given a choice to keep the coverage to pick up another private plan or select a new health insurance option. The opponents for the problem of rising health care costs are being doubled for the past 10 years. The families and business would struggle under the burden of the costs. This skyrocketing feature of health care costs has made federal, state and local health care programs become expensive with the budget crisis. The opponents of reform wont dispute the rising costs of the issue. The chief executive officer of trade group represents the health insurers which acknowledge the need to reduce the steep growth for health

Low Cost Health Insurance Help to Grow College Students

As everyone knows college is a step wherein many school graduates would not realize the way they don’t want to cover themselves under the parents plan. The low cost health insurance as the name suggests is the way which would limit potential headaches to fall before the class. The part time students may not be covered under the family health insurance plans which provide coverage until a dependent is 23 or 25 years depending on the state, and some polices would not cover any injuries which are sustained to sporting events as per some experts. With the downturn state enrollment at public universities some students would still prefer to go out of the state for college which would cause problems for insurance. Some plans might be region centric, which would make doctors visit for a student in Virginia go out of network if he/she would be from the North-east. A low cost health insurance plan which is based in the state requires students to attend school which would reduce some concerns an