The medical insurance industry has plenty of acronyms. Doctors are MDs. The law that says you can purchase your group insurance after you lose your job is COBRA. A prescription is known as a RX. In fact, next to the online world, there are probably few fields that have quite as many abbreviations and acronyms [...]
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Even prior to the most recent medical insurance legislation, congress has been trying to help out people who may be laid off or unemployed to have medical insurance. The February 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was designed to help with the overall financial crisis in the United States. One of the ways that it [...]
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While details seem to still be coming out about the recently-passed medical insurance legislation, one of the things that people are wondering about is the creation of the so-called “health exchanges” by the states that the legislation requires.
Specifically, the law requires individual states to each create a medical insurance exchange, which must be in place [...]
The New York Times is reporting that the U.S. Senate is making a move to begin regulating the amount that insurance companies are allowed to charge for their insurance premiums. This move comes after the passage of sweeping changes to the medical insurance landscape in the United States, and would provide the Secretary of Health [...]
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No one will deny for one moment that the issue of medical insurance is an important one, and one that we’re trying desperately as a nation to come to grips with. All sides in the medical insurance reform debate can become very passionate about what they believe, and it can lead to a very heated [...]
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