Tag: health plan

Children’s health insurance program in Alabama receives great scores

G. Turner
Children’s Health Insurance Program

A recent study has shown that kids in the state are receiving some of the best coverage in the country. A study has now been released from Georgetown University, which has determined that when it comes to the states throughout the South, it was Alabama that was providing the best children’s health insurance. Alabama also found itself among the leading states in the country for providing those kids’ health plans. The report was created by the Center for Children and Families (CCF) at the university. It explained that children’s health…

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Health insurance for business customers to be sold at Sam’s Club

G. Turner
Sam's Club health insurance exchange

At the same time that these shoppers are buying large sized containers of coffee, they may also shop for coverage. Small businesses are now beginning to make the decisions that are required of them in order to be able to comply with the Affordable Care Act, which states that employers must offer health insurance to their workers, and now Sam’s Club is going to enter into the market that sells this coverage. The Wal-Mart Stores wholesale retailer division has announced that it will start selling private plans. It will be…

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Insurance exchange in Washington now offers policy auto-renewal feature

Julie Campbell
washington health insurance exchange

The state is now giving users of its Health Benefit Exchange marketplace the chance to automatically renew coverage. The Washington Health Benefit Exchange, the state’s insurance exchange is now giving people the opportunity to use its website in order to allow residents of the state to be able to automatically renew their health plans for 2015 without having to take additional steps. The marketplace is now sending out renewal letters to customers, as are many insurers. Starting this week the insurance exchange and individual providers have been sending out letters…

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Health insurance will no longer be lost by 90,000 Californian families

G. Turner
California Health Insurance Companies

Officials in the state exchange have provided the documents so that residents can remain insured. Officials for Covered California have now stated that the majority of the over 90,000 families who had been at risk of losing their health insurance coverage and their tax subsidies for those plans as a result of incomplete information with regards to their legal residence within the state will no longer have this problem. These families now have the ability to provide the documents that are necessary so that they can keep their health plans.…

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Health insurance customers are avoiding medical care due to costs

Marc
U.S. Health Insurance

Survey from University of Chicago highlights the financial problem of health care in the US The University of Chicago has released the results of a new survey regarding those with private health insurance coverage in the U.S. The survey is meant to shed some light on the financial concerns that consumers have regarding their coverage, as well as the financial concerns they have for medical care overall. According to the survey, financial issues are one of the leading problems that consumers have when it comes to health care, and the…

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