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Does Insurance Coverage Cater To Cancer? All You Need To Know

Guest Author
Does Insurance Coverage Cater To Cancer?

The unfortunate thing about cancer is that it does not discriminate. It can affect anyone at any time, and often with little warning. And this makes it all the more necessary to have adequate health insurance coverage if you or a loved one should ever be diagnosed with the disease. Most health insurance plans will cover at least some of the cost of cancer treatment, but the coverage can vary significantly from one plan to another. It is necessary to know what your policy covers and doesn’t so you can…

Women without health insurance receive fewer cancer screenings

H. Cutner
health insurance options

Those who don’t have coverage are also less likely to be up to date with their checkups. The findings of a recent study have shown that individuals who don’t have health insurance and//or who live in rural areas have a lower likelihood of keeping their routine health checkups up to date and to receive the cancer screenings that are recommended for someone within their age or risk group. Screening for cancers has been an issue of significant controversy and debate over the last few years. Even by the standards of…

Breast Cancer Awareness Month; A fresh look at a three-pronged approach to personal cancer protection

Loreen

Though cancer is a frightening and potentially devastating illness that affects millions of families across the country and around the world, many Americans are learning how to take action to protect themselves as much as they can from the impact of this disease. This effort has three stages and, in the unfortunate event that cancer should occur, it ensures that its impact on your life, that of your family, and on your future will be kept as low as possible. The first step is prevention. A healthy lifestyle, including choices…

Health care reforms improve benefits for women

Julie Campbell
Womens Health Insurance

President Obama’s law adds 8 preventive medical benefits for female patients. As of Wednesday, the next element of the health care reforms went into place, adding coverage for eight more free preventive medical benefits for women. These include many tests and services that had previously been paid for out of pocket. Among the benefits that are now included due to the health care reforms are: routine breast and pelvic exam checkups, screenings for sexually transmitted infections and domestic violence, and gestational diabetes, prenatal care, breast feeding supplies, pap tests, and…

Census Bureau releases county coverage estimates for health insurance

The U.S. Census Bureau has released a report that provides the health insurance coverage estimates for 2008 and 2009 in all of the country’s approximately 3,140 counties. The Small Area Health Insurance Estimates (SAHIE) remains the singular source of health insurance coverage estimates for every one of the nation’s counties. The estimates are provided by age group, gender, income-to-poverty ratios, and race and Hispanic origins (by state only) in terms of relevant data for the new healthcare laws and other health systems and programs. This data provides local planners with…