Monthly Archives: September 2008

Rising Health Insurance Rates Hurting Businesses, Families and Individuals

Published: September 29, 2008 in Health Insurance Costs | Comments closed

Many articles I found for this installment focused on the rising costs of health insurance and how it affects just about everyone. We'll look at a couple of them that are particularly poignant.

Cheap Health Insurance: Reality or Fiction

There’s an old term that states, “You get what you pay for.” This usually means that, for example, if you pay less for a lower-quality product or service, you’ll get an experience that is also of low quality, and vice-versa. When one usually hears the word “cheap,” a couple of things come to mind. Some [...]

Health Savings Accounts, Speaking Spanish, and Insurance Fraud

Published: September 22, 2008 in Health Insurance Costs, Health Insurance Tips | Comments closed

In this edition, we look at a few varying articles covering several different topics, but articles I thought were interesting enough to be included. Our first article comes to us from Forbes, and is entitled, "Health savings accounts expand as care costs rise." In this article, author Eileen AJ Connelly discusses the apparent boom in the number of individuals and families enrolled in health savings accounts, or HSA's.

Health.Net Pays Fine for Rescissions, Workers’ Health Insurance in Jeopardy, and Medicare-for-All?

Published: September 15, 2008 in Health Insurance Costs, Medicare | Comments closed

Today we will look at three interesting stories that cover a few different topics revolving around health care or health insurance. The first story is a continuation of the rescission stories we covered previously, in which California took several insurance companies to task for rescinding customers' health insurance policies for pre-existing conditions and various other factors.

How the Rising Costs of Health Care Hurts Everyone

Published: September 8, 2008 in Health In Politics, Health Insurance Costs | Comments closed

Hello, and welcome to this installment of the Weekly Health Insurance News Roundup. In this issue, I found several articles that while having slightly different topics, focused on the problems caused by the ever-rising costs of health care in this country. Rising health care costs make health care less accessible, health insurance more expensive in [...]

Doctors Blaming Health Insurance Companies, a National Insurance Market and the Decline of Private Insurance

Published: September 3, 2008 in General Health Insurance | Comments closed

We have a plethora of interesting articles to look, so let's dive right in. The first article comes from Ohio.com and is entitled, "Doctors: Insurance companies endanger patient care." In this article, physicians in Ohio were polled about how they feel interaction with insurance companies affects patient care. According to the poll, 99% of those polled claimed that insurance companies interfere with patient treatment, while 95% claimed insurance companies interfered with prescriptions.