Affordable Health Insurance:
Find the latest news about affordable health insurance plans for individuals, families and small business. Read what the government is doing to make health insurance affordable for our citizens. Emaxhealth affordable health insurance column is a trustworthy source for the up to date information about health insurance reform and nationwide plans.
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Nov 1st, 2009
Over the past 18 years, the deaths of nearly 17,000 hospitalized children might have been prevented by having insurance, according to researchers from Johns Hopkins Children’s Hospital in Baltimore.
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Oct 28th, 2009
What health insurance premiums cost Americans is important to understand to help one decide what the most important health care reform may be.
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Oct 24th, 2009
A report entitled “Health Insurance Reform and Breast Cancer: Making the Health Care System Work for Women” was released on October 24, 2009, by Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius. The report explains how health insurance reform will help women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer.
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Oct 20th, 2009
After reading the NY Times article which warns that many Medicare health insurance beneficiaries will pay more than $100 for their Part B monthly premium in 2010, I went over to the HHS.gov site to review just whose Medicare premiums will increase 15% (from $96.40 to $110.50).
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Oct 19th, 2009
Many times we think that the price of a health insurance plan that we end up paying is dictated by the insurers. Then we wonder why health insurance is not affordable for us or our families. Yet, sometimes we fail to realize that knowledge about the local and state laws governing the health insurance industry can help making our family or individual plan more affordable.
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Oct 14th, 2009
In an effort to cut rising health insurance costs, some employers are asking employees to prove the eligibility of dependents they list on their insurance plans. Although this is not a new request by employers, an increasing number of them are making the request in an effort to save money.
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Oct 13th, 2009
Some lawmakers want to place a tax on high-cost, so-called “Cadillac” health insurance plans to raise money to help pay for health care reform. Others say such a move will hurt the middle-class, resulting in higher health insurance premiums and thus running counter to what health care reform reportedly is trying to achieve.
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Oct 13th, 2009
In university research courses, students are taught how to evaluate a study by first determining who funds the research. The source of the research funding largely determines whether the study may have been flawed or biased in some way. On Sunday evening, a study backed by health insurance companies, meant to attack health care reform as a last ditch effort, was released.
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Oct 10th, 2009
A new federal law allows full-time college students to keep their health insurance coverage without fear of being dropped if they have to leave school because of health reasons. The law, which is named Michelle’s Law after former college student Michelle Morse, was signed by then-President W. Bush one year ago and went into effect on October 9, 2009.
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Oct 5th, 2009
Democratic leaders are facing a very difficult job in crafting the bill of the health insurance and care reform. Some say they backpedal on health insurance mandate. While this is the current state of the debate on health care reform, millions of Americans are without health insurance coverage and and every extra day or week means hug bills on their family budget.
