Health Insurance
Friday Filmstrips: Vision Care
In these tough economic times, many corporations are eliminating regular vision care coverage from their benefits plans, and offering their employees membership in VSP – the vision service plan – instead. This video talks about VSP, how it works, and why eye care is important.
Read moreFriday Filmstrip: College Health Plans
Whether you’re a college student yourself or the parent of a kid in college, it’s important to understand college health plans – the insurance available to university students – even if you don’t think you’ll need it. This video explains it all. Enjoy.
Read moreHospital Prices Rising
Here’s a set of numbers that could eventually affect your health insurance cost: For the second month in a row, the cost of hospital services rose by 0.5% last month, according to newly released data from the U.S. Department of Labor Statistics, as compared with July 2010, which saw a 0.3% decline in the prices […]
Read moreFilm Strip: Get the Most Out of your Health Plan
Whether your health plan is an individual policy or an employer-sponsored health plan, there are ways you can maximize your health insurance dollars. This video, from StaySmart StayHealthy & YouTube, shows you how:
Read moreFriday Filmstrip: Chiropractors and Insurance
When you need chiropractic care, your insurance company may make you jump through a lot of hoops to get any kind of coverage. This chiropractor from Minnesota explains why asking about insurance shouldn’t be your first question. Enjoy.
Read moreCalifornia Assembly Approves Helmet Law…for Skiers.
The California Assembly has passed a bill requiring that snowboarders and skiers under the age of 18 would be required to wear helmets while playing on the slopes. It was approved by a party-line vote of 49-23. Not surprisingly, Republican legislators referred to the bill as the latest example of “nanny state” laws. Supporters of […]
Read moreFriday Filmstrip: Dual Health Insurance
For most people, dual health insurance isn’t something they ever have to think about; for others, it’s a necessity. If you’re in the latter category, this video has some great advice:
Read moreSupreme Court Declines to Hear Military Malpractice Case
On Monday, June 27th, the U.S. Supreme Court declined, without comment, to hear the California case Witt vs. U.S., that many activists thought was the best chance in decades to eliminate malpractice liability shields for military hospitals. The case concerned Dean Patrick Witt, a twenty-five-year-old staff sergeant from the Air Force who died after a […]
Read moreToo Old for Pediatrician?
It’s a question many of us don’t remember asking, but at some point in our lives, often when we’re eighteen and heading off to college, we make the transition from seeing a pediatrician to getting our health care from an adult doctor. As a parent, however, you have to help your teenager make that transition. […]
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