News outlets report on a variety of state health policy issues in California, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Oregon and Utah.
Louisiana Senate Panel Sinks Plan To Set Up Health Insurance Exchange
[W]ith a decisive 8-1 vote late Tuesday evening, the Louisiana Senate Finance Committee buried a bill that would have set up a body of elected and appointed officials to craft the exchanges that are an anchor of President Barack Obama’s health insurance overhaul. With the death of Senate Bill 744, Louisiana remains one of a handful of states that have refused to set up their own exchanges, with Gov.
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Everyone wants to know the secrets behind saving money. When it comes to health insurance, there are a few different things that consumers can try to take advantage of when it comes to reducing costs.
Get a high deductible plan that is compatible with a Health Savings Account (HSA).
Individuals are only eligible if they have a $1,200 deductible but can save up to $3,100 a year for health care services. And, families are eligible for an HSA if they have a $2,400 deductible but are allowed to save up to $6,250 a year.
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It’s the life insurance industry’s big mystery: How much money is missing?
By industry calculations, 1 percent to 2 percent of all life insurance policy benefits go unclaimed, says Mary Pitman, author of The Little Book of Missing Money. Sometimes, people are unaware their loved ones had life insurance or are unaware theyre named as beneficiaries. Beneficiaries also may have moved away from an address listed on the policy.
Estimates of the amount of unclaimed life insurance benefits in the United States range from $1 billion to $3 billion. But no one really knows exactly how much money is missing. Thi
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What would you say if somebody offered you a way to protect everything you own even though you don’t own the building that it is in? Well, that is pretty much what I am doing when I tell you that you can get renters insurance in Buffalo. A lot of people think that there is no way they can afford renters insurance but the truth is that you can and you don’t have to have a lot of money to do so. The reason why you can get renters insurance is because it is very cheap already and there are more ways to get it for even less.
One of the reasons why people in Buffalo need renters insurance is because there is a lot of snow and rain in Buffalo, New York. If Read all post…
On the third day of the Supreme Court’s consideration of the health law, justices sparred over whether some parts of the measure could proceed if the court decides to void its insurance mandate.
The Supreme Court has posted Justices Spar Over Health Law
The Supreme Court’s liberal justices went head to head with the court’s conservatives Wednesday in an effort to protect the Obama administration’s health law, suggesting in their questions that most of the measure should be kept even if the requirement to carry health insurance or pay a penalty is struck down.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the court’s senior liberal, said that if the justices must choose between “a wrecking operation and a salvage job, a more conservative approach would be a salvage job.” And Chief Justice John Roberts … asked several questions that appeared to further Mr. C
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Whole life insurance is basically a two-part policy: the insurance part and the cash portion. The policy is designed to provide maximum life insurance coverage and other benefits while at the same time allow the policyholder to accumulate wealth and earn return on the cash value. In this article, we are going to discuss more about the insurance aspect of a whole life policy.
The life insurance coverage offered by a whole life insurance policy is highly adjustable. You can set the coverage amount accordingly; the best way to determine the right coverage amount needed is by calculating your existing annual expenses and adding other expenses before multiplying the total by the number of years you want to keep your family financially supported.
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