10 March, 2010 (15:18) | Health News | By: Avatar
Doctors are now showing signs that they are in favor of a centralized National Insurance system which would work similar to MedicAid for senior. This would allow universal coverage for all Americans who are now either underinsured or not insured at all. This would eliminate the need for private insurance firms which act as middlemen [...]
Tags: Natinal Health Care, State Sponsored Care
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10 February, 2010 (12:23) | Basics, Health News, Procedures | By: Avatar
An MRI is used mainly as a diagnostic tool but not for emergency cases where time is of the essence for a scan can take a quarter of an hour depending on the machine (or better yet how old it is). To the part where insurance plays part, most of these can be covered and [...]
Tags: CT Scan Dangers, Diagnosing tools
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10 January, 2010 (09:34) | Basics, Health News | By: Avatar
As expected, prices of prescription drugs are on the rise along with everything else as the health industry goes under with the economy. People are losing jobs at alarming rates and salaries fail to improve with more and more people having to go without proper health care. In the US alone, 16% of the total [...]
Tags: Branded, Drugs, Generic
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10 November, 2009 (23:48) | Basics, Health News, Tips | By: Avatar
Many think life insurance is simply as the name states which are policies that cover your loved one or the insured, just in case you die before a pre-determined date (the one indicated in the coverage dates if it is a life term policy). Now there are many names companies have given their products which [...]
Tags: Life Insurance, Variants
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10 October, 2009 (23:45) | Health News, Tips | By: Avatar
Actual survey of insurance premium prices show that if a person is found to be 20 to 30 pounds overweight can get life insurance but at not so preferred rates due to their being more of a liability than regular people. The economic implications for everyday life are also quite unexpected for an overweight person [...]
Tags: High-Risk, Life Insurance, Obesity
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10 September, 2009 (23:42) | Health News, Tips | By: Avatar
A study by the American Obesity Association conducted in Washington DC shows that for that area more than 25% of all men and 40% of all women are obese. The figure is not so good for considering the implication on a nationwide scale and the numbers would multiply exponentially. Now what does this have to [...]
Tags: High-Risk, Life Insurance, Obesity
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10 July, 2009 (12:20) | Basics, Health News | By: Avatar
The federal government appeals court is hearing the case regarding the SF health care system which proposes to get more out of employers with more than 20 employees to shell out money for their insurance. Many employers have of course objected due to the high operating costs of all businesses especially now as the money [...]
Tags: Health Coverage, Workplace Health Insurance
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10 February, 2009 (17:27) | Basics, Health News | By: editor
Did you know that more life insurance plans are being sold today compared to disability insurance plans?
We understand that dues to the economic crisis, people are struggling to make ends meet and are trying to squeeze as much hard cash as possible from their previous investments – which include life insurance.
But the thing is, [...]
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11 January, 2009 (17:55) | Health News, Related | By: Administrator
People who cannot afford to go to hospitals, settle for home based care which can be dangerous if not fatal if improperly carried out. Risks are caused by improper medication, drugs interaction and improper monitoring thus leading to more health problems. Medical advice should always be considered in such cases and constant monitoring of the [...]
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22 August, 2008 (08:37) | Basics, Health News | By: Administrator
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By being Health Insurance ensured, it assists to prevent us from towering health care costs that most citizens could not have in any other way. It helps us reimburse for health care, and it ensures that we have authorization to care when we need it. Research has shown that having health insurance is [...]
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