12/25/2008 News For: Cobra Plan Health InsuranceHospital Websites Vastly Outperform Health Insurance Websites In Study ForeSee Results announced that in a broad benchmark measuring aggregate customer satisfaction with many different kinds of healthcare websites, hospital websites vastly outperform the websites of health insurance companies. On the ForeSee Results benchmark's 100-point scale, hospital websites received an aggregate score of 74 and health insurance websites received an aggregate score of 65. Bill: Give lawmakers state insurance CHEYENNE -- A Cheyenne lawmaker is pushing a bill to give full health insurance benefits to all members of the state Legislature. Massachusetts Health Officials Approve Guidelines For Subsidized Health Plans That Are Intended To Drive Down Costs The Massachusetts Health Insurance Connector Authority Board on Saturday approved guidelines for contracts with managed care companies that include incentives for cutting costs and patient-protection provisions, the Boston Globe reports. The guidelines will apply to state-subsidized Commonwealth Care health plans, which cover 162,000 residents whose incomes are too high to qualify for Medicaid. Kennedy Cancer Doesn?t Dim Drive Toward Dream Health-Care Plan Dec. 22 -- Battling a deadly brain tumor, Senator Edward M. Kennedy is focusing on one last political goal: medical insurance for all Americans. 2 Enroll In State Health Insurance Program A state health insurance program for middle-income children is off to a slow start, with only two enrolled so far. Utah Lawmakers Announce 10-Year Plan To Overhaul State Health Care System Utah lawmakers on Tuesday during the final meeting of the Legislature's Health System Reform Task Force unveiled a plan to overhaul the state's health insurance market, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. Sainsbury's Travel Insurance Offers Award Winning Cover Sainsbury's Travel Insurance is urging winter holidaymakers to make sure that before they hit the slopes, they have their European Health Insurance Cards EHIC and comprehensive travel insurance. PRWeb Dec 24, 2008 Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/12/prweb1784804.htm Health insurance fund managers to face criminal charges- RussianProsecutor General's Office MOSCOW. Dec 23 Interfax - A high-profile criminal case against the management of the Federal Compulsory Medical Insurance Fund CMIF has been sent to court. Good will toward man; Redmond church clinic to open its doors for the needy and uninsured Several years ago Shirley DeSoto fell into a common trap. As long as she worked, she had health insurance. But when her ailing knees prevented her from working as a caregiver, she lost her insurance as well.?I was going downhill, physically and emotionally,? the 60-year-old Terrebonne resident said. ?I called every phone number I could find.? But she didn?t meet the eligibility requirements for ... Growing numbers of uninsured strain health care providers With the announcements of thousands of layoffs around Charleston has come the loss of health insurance, compounding an already multilayered problem in the health care industry. |




