For years, we have been taught that all breast cancer cases require immediate medical attention and must be identified as soon as possible. Medical practitioners have been encouraging women to undergo screening for the disease since so much depends on its early detection. However, a recent study in Norway has found that this may not […]

As of a February 2012 statistics by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that 35.7% (or more than one third) of American adults are obese. Obesity is also becoming an epidemic among children and adolescents. Children as young as 2 years old are found to be obese. A third of America’s children […]

Seventy-five percent of low-wage workers do not have health coverage from their employer and close to 40 percent of them are living without health insurance of any kind, a recent report from the Center for Economic Policy Research and the Georgetown University Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. The report entitled “Health-Insurance Coverage […]

Most employees get their health insurance through the companies they work for. This is a great way to get affordable health insurance. They can also wait for the annual “open enrollment” and add a family member or a dependent to their plan. However, if they get married or have a child, they can add them […]

Consumers are the first to notice that New York health insurance rate increases have gone into double-digit increases for the past 5 years. Unfortunately, the process doesn’t allow consumers to have much control of the final rate outcome. Which is as follows; Authorities in the state of New York are required to verify data submitted […]

As the Obama administration gears up for the controversial Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, it issued new regulations which require health plans to use simple, clear, and standardized language to help clients understand their health plans better. This fall, employers and insurers which offer health coverage must provide a form summarizing the basic plan […]

The Obama administration’s decision to compel Catholic institutions, like schools, hospitals, and charity groups to provide their employees with health insurance plans that cover contraception has been regarded by many as a huge political gamble made by the President. Although progressives seem to agree with the administration’s choice, some analysts believe that he will pay for […]

States with laws that allow children to remain under their parent’s health insurance until age 26 have improved healthcare access compared to those without such laws, researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine found. This finding shows the potential positive effect of a major provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 […]

You might think that health insurance coverage is expensive and pointless especially if you are young, short on cash, and healthy. The reality is everybody needs health insurance. A broken arm in a basketball game, a bicycle accident, a simple bronchitis that escalates into pneumonia – you are potentially setting up yourself for financial bankruptcy. […]

Do not directly purchase from a search engine. It can be hard to accurately tell who is legit. But the rule of thumb is: that major medical insurers rarely market their products directly to consumers. For example, when you Google “buying health insurance coverage,” you will see sites that offer instant quotes. You should avoid […]