Texas insurance alternative offered by health sharing ministries

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Open enrollment for next year’s coverage is less than a month away and now new options are arising. The Texas insurance market is now seeing a new and more active participant, now that the 2015 open enrollment is rapidly approaching, as the so-called health sharing ministries are seeking to bring in new members who would like to have coverage but either want an alternative to the traditional plan or cannot afford one. This is a critical time in which to market health insurance, as consumers prepare to make their 2015…

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Insurance exchange in California awards $184 million in contracts without competitive bidding

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This stepped over a standard practice throughout the government in that state for this type of deal. The California insurance exchange has just announced that it has awarded contracts worth $184 million in a process that did not involve oversight or competitive bidding, which has moved itself outside of the standard practices that are used throughout the government in that state. These contracts include certain deals that will pay millions in dollars to a company with workers linked to the agency’s executive director. The no-bid contracts that were awarded by…

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Insurance policies may soon be available at IKEA

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The Swedish furniture company is rolling out trials of certain kinds of coverage in specific stores. IKEA Group, the furniture giant from Sweden, has taken its first steps into the selling insurance policies, after having rolled out a trial program of certain types of coverage product in its Swedish stores. Those insurance products will become available within the a couple of weeks, as a test of the market. The first insurance policies that were rolled out in a few select stores in Sweden by IKEA were child and pregnancy coverage.…

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College insurance protection now often extends to rape scandals

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Institutes of post secondary education are now purchasing coverage for new kinds of risk. As students return to their campuses, this fall, they may discover that college insurance policies are now taking an entirely new shape due to the shifts that are taking place in the culture of these communities. These schools are becoming increasingly aware of the risk that sexual attacks can have when they occur on campus. For that reason, these schools have taken a number of steps to change the way in which accusations of abuse are…

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Health care reforms appears to be creating happy customers

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A new survey has shown that people who are newly covered by medical insurance seem pleased. According to the results of a Commonwealth Fund survey, the expansion of insurance coverage as a result of the health care reform are starting to produce some rather pleased and satisfied customers. They survey also determined that there are a notably larger number of people with coverage in the country. The research group’s survey showed that among adults who are younger than the age of 65 years, an estimated 15 percent are currently uninsured.…

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