11/29/2008 News For: Average Cost For Health Insurance19,000 Alaska kids lack health insurance One out of 10 children in Alaska has no health insurance, according to a new report by a national organization for health care consumers. Health Insurance Options After Termination or Early Retirement If you're a full-time employee, chances are health insurance is one of the benefits available to you. If you choose to take advantage of this benefit, you probably understand that... Eastern Life & Health Insurance announces management changes The Eastern Life & Health Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Eastern Insurance Holdings, has appointed Curt Melville as COO and Marc Blevens as director of sales and agency relations. A fall through insurance-coverage gap Phil Venezio worked for 30 years, supporting a family and paying taxes until a illness left him disabled. New Jersey denied him health insurance under Medicaid for being $77 over the monthly income allowance. Up, up and away: Health care premiums rising It's that time of year again. Time to find out how much your health insurance premiums will rise. Not if they're rising, but rather how much more you and your employer will pay next year, because at this point, some increase is almost a given. "If we were back in the Roman days I would have been killed years ago because they always sacrificed the messenger," joked Jim Elrod, president of the ... Excellus announces rate hike INSURANCE: The region���s largest health insurer will raise premiums an average of 9.5 percent next year. Nationwide Specialty Health launches accident and hospital insurance product Nationwide Specialty Health, a provider of specialty insurance products, has launched Ca$hBack Plans, new accident and hospital product lines to help employers protect their employees against unexpected medical costs. ABQ Health Partners unveils new signs ABQ Health Partners is replacing its old Lovelace signs in the City Different for its one-year anniversary of becoming an independant physician-owned medical group. New Health Insurance Plan A state backed plan to create low cost health insurance is still in the works. Health care task force's plan offers little immediate help to middle class Ross William Hamilton/The OregonianLike a growing number of middle-class Oregonians, Kathy Brown, 60, and her husband, Steve, 63, have seen health care costs erode their standard of living and retirement plans. Both had jobs and health insurance when Steve suffered... |

