Health Insurance & Money

The government is trying to bring affordable health insurance coverage to “almost” every American, but lawmakers are skeptical in trying to limit what insurer's charges and have been rejecting restrictions on how much insurers can charge. This is creating fears that we the consumer will be forced to pay the outrageous health insurance premium increases of recent years.

HHS hosted a town hall meeting with seniors in Silver Spring and released a new report, Health Insurance Reform and Medicare: Making Medicare Stronger for America's Seniors.

A plan that combines the Children’s Health Insurance Plan and children’s Medicaid into one entity and in the process broadens free or low-cost health care coverage for young people up to age 19 goes into effect on October 1 in Montana. In November 2008, the initiative that makes this expansion of health insurance for children possible was approved by 70 percent of Montana voters.

One of the largest private health insurance providers in United State Humana sent a letter to its customers telling them they may lose some benefits if the government goes on with the Health Care reform and cuts funding for Medicare Advantage Plans. According to NPR "the Feds told the company to knock it off." The letter has spurred spats with Feds.

By yesterday afternoon, mailboxes, facebook, twitter and every other social online network was filled with the new online ad. It looks as though Hollywood is going to tackle healthcare and health insurance reform.

In a time when Senator Max Baucus is proposing a new limit on health insurance premiums to make them more affordable and the reports say that nearly 15.4 percent of the U.S. population lacks health insurance coverage one wonders: why has the coverage become so expensive. According to Chicago Sun Times the Census Bureau reported on Tuesday that 46.3 million people in this country do not have health insurance coverage.

September is Life Insurance Awareness Month and the Illinois Department of Insurance encourages Illinois families to review and understand how lifestyles affect the benefits and needs for life insurance.

For millions of Americans, their health care comes from the nonprofit sector that includes free clinics and community clinics and health centers. Most of the people who utilize these services do not have health insurance, and the clinics are their only hope for getting any type of health care at all for themselves and their families.

The Washington State Department of Health has revoked or suspended the licenses, certifications, or registrations of health care providers in our state.

While the battle rages of health insurance and health care reform, one question that has not come up is, when and how did the concept of health insurance begin in the United States? From what innocent seed did this current debate arise?