health insurance Evaluate annually If you get health insurance through an employer, review your options each year during the open-enrollment season. Last year’s plan may not suit you this year. Did you get married? Divorced? Perhaps it’s cheaper to opt out of your plan and add yourself to your spouse’s plan. Here’s your chance to […]

The reality is that Congress will miss President Barack Obama’s August deadline for health care reform. The Administration had wanted each Chamber to pass a bill before Congress recesses in early-August. Members of a Conference Committee would then spend the recess working through differences between the bills and Congress would be in a position to send legislation to […]

Over 41 million Americans are uninsured, and many of those who are insured are underinsured. As a result, there are approximately 13% of women who become pregnant each year who are not insured, which often results in inadequate prenatal care. Another challenge uninsured pregnant women face is that some insurance plans consider pregnancy a pre-existing […]

It is fairly easy to determine when conception occurred based on last menstrual period (don’t give them a false date here because it is very important to date your pregnancy accurately) and uterine size from ultrasound, so it may not be prudent to mislead your prenatal care providers about when the pregnancy began. Many women […]

A reader left a comment with a number of questions regarding health care reform details. I responded that I did not want to try and guess at details until the…

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Plans to sell individual health insurance plans via storefront on a larger scale in the future. BCBSFL who has had an operational health insurance storefront in Pembroke Pines for more than a year plans to expand to five to eight stores across the state. Individual health insurance have become […]

According to the PRWeb article through medicaresupplementplans.com entitled “California Health Insurance Assistance Program Awarded 2009 Grant Funding”, California health insurance assistance programs are expected to receive about $3 million in grants to help Medicare beneficiaries in need of information on health insurance topics. This is an ongoing effort to better assist these citizens who are often […]

Health care in America is complicated, pervasive and critical. There’s a lot that works well in the current system. There is much that needs to be fixed. Getting health care reform right will take patience, determination and constructive debate. That’s why it makes sense to worry less about deadlines and more about getting reform right. […]

To create a safe boundary around oneself while traveling is the right decision taken. And this safe boundary is the overseas travel insurance policy that guards against all travel related and health issues.