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Wellpoint security glitch exposes applicant data
BOSTON June 29 (Reuters) – WellPoint Inc (WLP.N) has warned some 470,000 people who applied for its health insurance that a website security glitch may have exposed their Social Security numbers and other sensitive data to the public. The top U.S. health insurer by membership learned of the problem in March when an applicant sued [...]
Full StorySeek Online Health Insurance Before The Government Forces Healthcare Coverage On You
by Timothy Reuscher- It is now common knowledge that the changes slated by the government for the health care system of the United States aren’t truly as in favor of lower and middle class Americans as many had hoped. Though the measures taken by the government and lawmakers allow all people access to health care, [...]
Full StoryFifteen percent of Americans lack health insurance
The quantity of Americans without health insurance increased in 2009 from the previous year. There were 46.3 million Americans of all ages that were uninsured last year, according to novel information from the Centers for Disease Control’s National Center for Health insurance Statistics. That figure accounted for 15.4 percent of Americans and noticeable an increase [...]
Full StorySeeing Threat to Individual Policies, State Officials Urge a Gradual Route to Change
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners, representing state officials, says the federal government should obtain steps to stop disturbance of the market. Specifically, the group is drafting a recommendation that urges the federal government to permit a steady three-year evolution in states where the new obligation, which takes effect Jan. 1, could undermine the market. [...]
Full StoryCalifornia’s Health Insurance Substitutes
One of the most significant provisions contained in the new federal healthcare reform legislation is the establishment of health insurance exchanges designed to provide consumers greater choice and affordability. The legislation mandates that each state launch such exchanges by January 1, 2014. Now, a new white paper released by the nation’s leader in developing and [...]
Full StoryHealth Insurance American Samoa
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Full StoryChamber offers primer on changes to health insurance
ZANESVILLE — Overhauling the health care system will be a monumental task over the next several years. But there are changes this year that will begin affecting businesses. Local small business owners and concerned residents took part in a Chamber of Commerce-sponsored presentation — “National Health Care Reform: What Does This Mean for my Business?” [...]
Full StoryHealth insurance should be necessary
It is also frequently heard that the Indian health system must rapidly adapt to a new order, but what is that order of things, we struggle to define.Around the world, there have been plenty of proposals for curing what ails health-care. All aim to tackle a universal challenge improving the quality of health-care and reducing, [...]
Full StoryAetna disqualified from multi-billion dollar TRICARE military contract
Saying it is “extremely upset” with the decision, Aetna plans to decide why it was banned from winning a multi-billion dollar contract to grant health care to members of the military. On May 5, the U.S. Department of Defense announced it was awarding the agreement for its TRICARE North Region to Health Net Federal Services, [...]
Full StoryThe wonder of health insurance
Having struggled even the modest health care reforms of the Patient safety and reasonable Care Act, insurers now look to be falling all over themselves to make good. But that is not what makes me wonder. That is politics, requiring getting on the superior side of the winners. What makes me wonder is about the [...]
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