Today’s Health Insurance News
June 26, 2008 by Be Safe Insure
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More Americans Delay Health Care – Wall Street Journal
An increasing array of Americans, many with health insurance, are delaying or forgoing medical care because of concern about cost, according to a report from the Center for Studying Health System Change. About 20% of the respondents in a 2007 survey …
Health insurance lags most in Southwest, CDC says – Journal Record
ATLANTA (AP) ? The Southwest has the lowest health insurance coverage in the country, with 30 percent of non-elderly adults and 18 percent of children uninsured, according to a new government study. New England ? with a rate of uninsured people …
Health-care scammer confesses – Macomb Daily
A former Macomb County employee admitted Wednesday she filed false claims for up to $230,000 in health insurance benefits paid by taxpayer dollars long after she left the county. Jackie Youhanian, 38, pleaded guilty in Macomb County Circuit Court to …
Tax relief on health insurance shares – ninemsn
Health insurance policy holders will get a tax break when their fund demutualises. Assistant treasurer Chris Bowen told parliament an amendment to the tax act would ensure policy holders who receive shares in a demutualised insurer would not have to …
Myths about insurance – Economic Times
For many people, insurance is just another form of investment. They buy one or two life insurance policies , and then forget all about them. Ask them about other insurance covers?accident , health, or household valuables?and they will tell you …
SCHOOL Board reverses stand on insurance – TriVallyCentral
��Belmond-Klemme school employees will now be covered by a Wellmark health insurance policy. The board had refused to act on the change to Wellmark at a special meeting May 28 despite pleas from the teachers’ union. The switch was approved …
Check health insurance coverage before doctor visit – Kansas City Star
B efore setting up an appointment, I asked Family Care Specialist Medical Center of Lee?s Summit if it accepted Great-West Healthcare. I was told yes. When I arrived, I asked the front desk if it accepted GWH and again was told, yes. I presented my …
Anorexia, bulimia may soon become part of mandatory health insurance … – C…
Melissa Traub has struggled for a decade with an eating disorder, her weight sometimes dipping below 100 pounds, her hair falling out by the handful. Today, the 24-year-old Naperville woman appears to be healthy?a tribute to treatment, tenacity and …
Study examines impact of poor, uninsured patients’ race in terms of …
A new study in Health Services Research tried to disentangle the impact of a patient’s racial and ethnic background, being poor and having no health insurance on the likelihood they would report having experienced racial or ethnic bias in the …
