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Archive for the ‘Family Health Insurance’ Category
Monday, May 20th, 2019
KHN reports:
“Sheri Lewis, 59, of Seattle, needed a hip transplant. Bradley Fuller, 63, of nearby Kirkland, needed chemotherapy and radiation when the pain in his jaw turned out to be throat cancer. And Kim Bruzas, 55, of Waitsburg, hundreds of miles away, needed emergency care to stop sudden —and severe — rectal bleeding.
Each of these Washington state residents required medical treatment during the past few years, and each thought they had purchased health insurance through an online site.
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Tags: Affordable Care Act, Hampshire, health insurance, health insurance reform, Individual Mandate, insurance plan, Insurance Reform, Oakbrook Terrace, Oakwood Hills, Obama care, ObamaCare, Obamacare regulation, online degrees, open enrollment, Opt-Out, Oswego, Penalty, requirements
Posted in Family Health Insurance, Health Insurance News | Comments Off on ‘Sham’ Sharing Ministries Test Faith Of Patients And Insurance Regulators
Monday, October 30th, 2017
The Chicago Tribune reports:
“Cindy Purvance of Park City, Utah, was incensed when she received a letter in the mail, alerting her that her family’s health insurance premium would skyrocket to $1,300 a month next year – a $500 increase.
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Tags: affordable care, Affordable Care Act, Blue Cross, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Broker, Donald Trump, enrollment, insurance, insurance broker, Navigator, ObamaCare, open enrollment, requirements, SHOP, sign up, small businesses, the affordable care act, Trump
Posted in Family Health Insurance | Comments Off on After Trump’s Obamacare moves, shopping for health insurance more baffling than ever
Friday, August 18th, 2017
Yahoo Finance reports:
“Health insurer Aetna is already giving its workers free Apple Watches (plus a handful of regular customers), but it now looks ready to expand those bonuses to everyone. CNBCsources understand that Aetna is in talks with Apple to offer a free or discounted Watch as a perk to all eligible customers — no small number when Aetna covers 23 million people. It’s not certain what the deal would look like, but Aetna would like to hand out wristwear early in 2018.
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Tags: health, Hebron, Herbron, Highland Park, Hillside, Hinsdale, Hoffman Estates, Holiday Hills, Hospital, IL, insurance, Will
Posted in Family Health Insurance | Comments Off on Aetna may offer customers a free Apple Watch as a perk
Monday, January 11th, 2016
Investors Business Daily Reports:
“Socialist Medicine: Canadians love their hockey and have historically been happy with their government-run health care system. Hockey is thriving. The country’s health care system, though, is a wreck and getting worse.
It could be said the words “Canada” and “health care” really don’t go together because some Canadians never make it to the doctor.
Too many die untreated due to extended wait times to see a doctor, and those wait times have increased again this year. They are now almost twice as long as they were in 1993, the year Hillary Clinton tried to force government health care on Americans. (more…)
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Posted in Affordable Care Act, Family Health Insurance, Health Insurance News, Heath Care Costs | Comments Off on Canadian Health Care: Patients Waiting Longer Than Ever For Treatment
Monday, January 11th, 2016
The New York Times Reports:
“Despite a 29 percent increase in the number of people enrolled in Obamacare, plenty of healthy holdouts remain, and their resistance helps explain why insurers are worried about the financial viability of the exchanges over time.
The New York Times
WASHINGTON —
Clint Murphy let the deadline for getting health insurance by the new year pass without a second thought.
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Tags: ACA, ACA requirements, affordable care, Affordable Care Act, affordable health insurance, barack obama, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, buy health insurance, buying insurance, care reform legislation, Chicago, Chicagoland, Cook, Cook County, Costs, coverage plan, deductibles, employer health insurance, enrollment, exchange, Fox Valley, health care benefits, health care costs, health care reform, health care system, health insurance, health insurance costs, health insurance coverage, health insurance marketplace, health insurance premiums, health plan, healthcare.gov, IL, IRS, Kane, Kane County, Lake, Lake County, Lake in the Hills, McHenery, medical expenses, Medicare, New health insurance law ACA, Obama care, ObamaCare, Obamacare regulation, open enrollment, Penalty, premiums, state health insurance, subsidies, Tax, the affordable care act, Will County
Posted in Affordable Care Act, Family Health Insurance | Comments Off on Millions choose IRS fines as more affordable than health coverage
Wednesday, September 16th, 2015
Yahoo Finance reports:
“Nearly a third of the roughly 50 million elderly Americans who depend on Medicare for their physician care and other health services could see their premiums jump by 52 percent or more next year. That’s because of a quirk in the law that punishes wealthier beneficiaries and others any time the Social Security Administration fails to boost the annual cost of living adjustment.
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Tags: disability insurance program, Health and Human Services, medicaid coverage, premiums, retirement, Ringwood, Riverwoods, Rolling Meadows, Roselle, Saint Charles, Schaumburg, Schiller Park
Posted in Family Health Insurance | Comments Off on Millions facing a hefty increase in Medicare premiums in 2016
Wednesday, September 16th, 2015
NPR reports:
“Sure, there’s a deductible with your health insurance. But then what’s the hospital deductible? Your insurer may have multiple deductibles, and it pays to know which apply when. These questions and answers tackle deductibles, whether an ex-spouse has to pay for an adult child’s insurance, and balance billing.
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Tags: Affordable Care Act, health insurance, health insurance reform, Insurance Reform, premiums, special enrollment, Village of Lakewood, Virgil, Warrenville, Wasco, Wayne, West Chicago, Will County
Posted in Affordable Care Act, Family Health Insurance | Comments Off on Untangling The Many Deductibles Of Health Insurance
Thursday, June 25th, 2015
Benefits Pro reports:
“A family of four with employer-sponsored health coverage is shelling out substantially more since the advent of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The cost of family coverage also is rising so fast that even this standard employee coverage package could trigger the 2018 Cadillac tax.
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Tags: affordable care, Affordable Care Act, health insurance, health plan, insurance, insurance industry, insurance news, insurance plan, Inverness, Kane, Kane County, Lake in the Hills, Lombard, Long Grove, Tax, the affordable care act
Posted in Affordable Care Act, Family Health Insurance | Comments Off on Annual family health costs hit nearly $25K
Monday, May 4th, 2015
Yahoo Health reports:
“The average cost of maternity care and delivery without complications is $23,000. With complications, that number jumps steeply. Imagine facing that cost if you’re uninsured? For approximately 13 percent of the over 6 million womenwho become pregnant yearly, these costs are a harsh reality.
But there’s a strong movement that’s trying to change that.
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Tags: Affordable Care Act, Dundee, DuPage, DuPage County, East Dundee, Elburn, Elgin, Elmhurst, Elmwood Park, Health and Human Services, health insurance, Individual Mandate, Medicaid, premiums, special enrollment, the affordable care act
Posted in Family Health Insurance, Individual Health Insurance | Comments Off on Should Pregnancy Be A ‘Qualifying Life Event’ For Insurance Coverage?
Monday, January 12th, 2015
Yahoo Finance reports:
“As the cost of health care rises, more and more Americans in nearly every economic class are choosing to delay medical treatment because they can’t afford it.
A new Gallup poll released Friday found that about one in three Americans say they have put off treatment for themselves or a family member because of cost—the highest rate recorded in Gallup’s history.
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Tags: Affordable Care Act, Employers, health care costs, health insurance, High deductible health plan, open enrollment, the affordable care act, Warrenville, Wasco, Wayne, West Chicago, West Dundee, Westchester, Wheaton, Wheeling, Will, Will County, Wilmette, Winfield, Wood Dale, Woodridge, Woodstock
Posted in Family Health Insurance, Insurance Reform | Comments Off on High deductible plans have more people delaying treatment
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