Category: Health News

Wages stay Put

10 September, 2010 (09:39) | Health News | By: Avatar

According to the Economic Policy Institute, wages may be suffering due to the increase in cost of health care. This surprised many experts who say that wages have maintained stability through the years and is not to blame for the current crisis with health care but statistics show otherwise. The figures show that wages are [...]

Health Insurance Online

10 August, 2010 (09:37) | Health News, Tips | By: Avatar

As hard as people are finding it to get health insurance they need, online providers are making a profit by offering flexible packages that can be customized to individual customers. This is what many consumers are finding out, that internet based firms are more flexible and have the capacity to lower costs due to less [...]

Prescription Drugs prices Soar (Part 2)

10 July, 2010 (09:36) | Health News | By: Avatar

Transportation is one of the most expensive costs as well as human resources that always want more benefits. Companies are opting to put caps on wages in order to maintain health benefits but in spite all their efforts, more are losing jobs by the day. Companies are forced to trim down their workforces to allow [...]

Home-Based Health Insurance Getting Support

10 June, 2010 (15:23) | Health News, Procedures | By: Avatar

The Federal Government is lifting tight control on home-based health care for the poor in efforts to lower the total number of uninsured Americans. Current Federal sponsored programs do not allow home-based care and requires facility bound treatments for them to qualify. This would allow the poor to get the care they need and not [...]

Employer Sponsored Health Care – Not that good

10 May, 2010 (15:22) | Health News | By: Avatar

Insurance analysts are saying that the government should not rely so heavily on employer sponsored health care benefits for it makes no economic sense. They also continue on by saying that the problem with such complacency is not economical but purely political and that a centralized health care system would be a better choice than [...]

News from the Campaign Trail

10 April, 2010 (15:20) | Health News | By: Avatar

Candidates have their own measures to get all Americans on the proper road to affordable yet quality healthcare. Clinton has proposed and agreed to support plans on setting cap limits to insurance premiums which is very good news for those who earn just enough in order to survive day by day. A cap limit of [...]

National Health Insurance

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 [...]

CT Scan Dangers : Part 2

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 [...]

Prescription Drugs prices Soar (Part 1)

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 [...]

Life insurance plus some other types

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 [...]