Health Care Services Through Your Individual Health Insurance Plan
An individual health insurance cover, simply stated, is an agreement between you and the insurance firm, aimed at protecting you against any financial constraints on account of a medical emergency. The one pertinent question you need to ask yourself is -what are the factors to be analyzed before deciding on an individual health insurance policy? [...]
Health Care Services Through Your Individual Health Insurance Plan - continue readingWomen’s Health Care
When the topic of women’s health care is raised, the first disease that comes to mind is probably breast cancer. But surprisingly, that’s not the number one health care issue confronting women today. In fact, heart disease kills more women each year than all forms of cancer combined. By knowing the most significant risks in [...]
Women’s Health Care - continue readingHealth Care Reform: an Opportunity for Insurance Industry Participation in Sierra Leone’s Medical Care System
The socialized system of healthcare delivery and financing, a relic of the British colonial era, still practiced in Sierra Leone has glaringly failed and any efforts at resuscitating it without implementation of major structural and systemic reform will only serve to prolong the inevitable.
Throughout the world, total state control and management of industries, services, markets [...]
Health Care Reform: an Opportunity for Insurance Industry Participation in Sierra Leone’s Medical Care System - continue readingLiving Wills and Health Care Directives – What is Involved?
The following is an example of a Health Care Directive (many people still refer to this as a Living Will).   It is broken down into 3 basic parts. 1) Appointment of the Health Care Agent. 2) Health Care Instructions. 3) Making the Document Legal.  Like most legal documents, it can be a bit confusing and [...]
Living Wills and Health Care Directives – What is Involved? - continue readingHealth Care Cuts Draw Criticism
A proposal by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer to cut 300,000 people from the health care plan for the poor will likely “increase the misery index,” a Prescott doctor said.
Dr. Joseph Goldberger, chief medical officer for the Yavapai Regional Medical Center and a rheumatologist with a private practice, said about 15 to 20 percent of the [...]
Health Care Bill Will Bankrupt The Nation
In January of 1838, a young man in Illinois speaking to a community organization (known as the Young Men’s Lyceum) in Springfield made the argument that an ambitious leader sometime in the future of the United States would leave the “beaten path” trod by previous leaders in order to gain distinction for himself. That “towering [...]
Health Care Bill Will Bankrupt The Nation - continue readingColorado’s 2 senators criticize closed-door talks on health care reform
Democrats’ strategy for merging health care reform bills began to unravel under growing attacks Wednesday, including unexpected criticism from Colorado’s two Democratic senators.
Final negotiations on merging the bills began in earnest Wednesday as congressional leaders spent more than eight hours behind closed doors at the White House using a process that bypasses a formal conference [...]
Health Care Bill Would Bring Higher State Medicaid Costs
The health bill passed by the House of Representatives Sunday would cost Nevada taxpayers an extra $613 million from 2014-2019, to provide health care to the needy.
According to early state estimates, the bill would make an additional 70,000 residents eligible for Medicaid. The state would be mandated to cover another 8,000 individuals who are now [...]
