Topic: Health Insurance

Guide to Open Enrollment, 2012

Customize your selections to save money and maximize coverage.Customize your selections to save money and maximize coverage.When you think about your job, you probably focus on your salary. But don’t overlook the value of your benefits package; for the average worker, it ...

U.S. advisers: keep health benefits affordable

(Reuters) - An advisory group urged U.S. officials to formulate a set of essential health benefits under President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul that is in line with cost of insurance in a typical small employer plan.The Institute of Medicine report issued on ...

How to Compare Medicare Policies

State programs can help you pick a plan over the phone or in person.State programs can help you pick a plan over the phone or in person.I’d like to research my options for Medicare Part D policies for next year, and I ...

Health consumers make deficit fight personal

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The numbers are devastating: almost 2,000 poor kids in Texas with cancer, another 18,000 with diabetes and more than 350,000 suffering from chronic lung disease, heart disease or stroke.What sounds like a grim statistical report on poverty and disease ...

Top court considers California Medicaid cuts

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court opened its new term on Monday and considered whether Medicaid recipients and medical providers may sue California for cutting reimbursement rates in the healthcare program for low-income Americans.The justices heard arguments in a case that centered ...
Healthcare premiums are growing faster than paychecks -- but you can still control how much your family pays.Healthcare premiums are growing faster than paychecks -- but you can still control how much your family pays.It seems that each year more and more ...

Obama's healthcare law tops new Supreme Court term

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's sweeping healthcare overhaul will top the agenda in the new Supreme Court term that opens on Monday and could be the most momentous in decades.Returning from its three-month recess, the nation's highest court will confront legal ...

Debt panel eyes dual Medicare/Medicaid patients

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Government health benefits for some 9 million of the sickest and poorest U.S. citizens will come under scrutiny from the congressional "super committee" seeking to cut the nation's debt.These are Americans who qualify for both the Medicare and Medicaid ...

US health insurance costs up 9% in year: study

Company-provided health insurance, one of the largest costs of US businesses and households alike, rose nine percent over the past year despite the sluggish economy, according to a new study released Tuesday.The average cost for employer-provided family health care insurance has hit ...
Tricare now provides insurance for members' children until they reach age 26.Tricare now provides insurance for members' children until they reach age 26.I’m in the military and my 23-year-old son was dropped from the Tricare health insurance program when he graduated from ...