Health Insurance
Be a Better You: Ways to Take Care of Your Health This 2018
Maybe it sounds cliche; saying that your New Year’s resolution should include taking care of yourself better. After all, it’s no secret that you encounter health and wellness tips almost everywhere. However, as cliche as it may sound, you should always make your health a priority. It’s true, we all have a list of priorities […]
Read moreHealth Insurance Tips: How to Make the Most Out of Your Policy
It’s no secret that whenever you get sick, medical bills can possibly end up piling up in great proportions. This is especially true if you don’t have basic health insurance coverage. However, this particular scenario can definitely be avoided if you think about getting covered as early as you can. According to a report, the […]
Read moreThis or That: How to Choose the Right Health Insurance Coverage for You
Getting health insurance coverage should be a priority for every individual. When you do, you’ll have to choose the right policy for you. Every health insurance policy is unique. It has its own features, specifications, and costs. Therefore you it’s important to be familiar with how one differs from the other. However, deciding on which […]
Read moreMore Health Care Changes
It’s a new year, which means more of the elements of ObamaCare,also known as the Affordable Care Act, are going live. Want to know how your health insurance might change? This month’s video – our first of the year – explains it all:
Read moreColorado Trying to Cut Health Costs
Officials from the state of Colorado say that the Affordable Care Act known colloquially as “Obamacare” has given them the power to block insurance rate hikes. Specifically, the legislation gave Colorado the ability to block rate increase by Cigna, which had asked for a 24% increase.
Read moreVideo: Insurance Plans for Federal Employees
Even federal employees have a variety of health insurance plans to chose from. This video goes over several of them and helps people determine if they have the right health plan. Some of the information is also useful for the general public, such as the difference between PPO, HMO and Fee for Service plans.
Read moreOklahoma Considers Raising the Legal SMOKING Age
A committee of the Oklahoma House of Representatives has recently approved legislation that would raise the legal age for the use of tobacco to twenty-one. While the drinking age has been twenty-one across the country for several decades now, in most places the age limit for tobacco use is still eighteen. While it’s no secret […]
Read moreNo Health Insurance Exchange in SoDak this Year
South Dakota governor Dennis Daugaard has stated that legislation to establish a health insurance exchange will not be on the table in this year’s session. In a news release, the governor said that conditions were too unstable to recommend creating the kind of exchange stipulated by President Obama’s health care overhaul. That law intended individual […]
Read moreFriday Filmstrip: French Health Care
As health care remains a hot-button issue in our government and with our current crop of political candidates, it’s interesting to look at health care around the world. Here’s a video – admittedly three years old – which looks at the French health care system, which is often considered the best in the world.
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