Latest News in Health Insurance – Dec 31, 2009
December 31, 2009 by Webmaster
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City OKs new health insurance plan – Huron Daily Tribune
23 Dec 2009 at 8:17am
The previous insurance plan was the Municipal Employees’ Retirement System (MERS) Premier health insurance, which is being discontinued as of Feb. 1, 2010. Other MERS programs, including the retirement plans, group life and disability insurance …
Married Couples Cope Better With Health Shocks Than Singles – Med India
30 Dec 2009 at 9:52pm
… of need (such as illness and disability of main-earner). The insurance the second-earner provides to the main-earner in the marital contract serves as an important mechanism to help smooth out household income in periods of health and disability …
Cigna shares outpace other health insurance stocks – AOL
24 Dec 2009 at 12:19pm
INDIANAPOLIS -Shares of managed care company Cigna Corp. outpaced other health insurers Tuesday, as they climbed more in line with financial stocks. Philadelphia-based Cigna operates health care, group disability and life and international business …
Couple’s Insurance Denies Coverage For Autism – KETV.com
29 Dec 2009 at 10:11am
An Omaha family’s insurance provider has denied them coverage to help pay for car seats for their autistic children. Mary and Jon Bourgeois have two sons, 5-year-old Ben and 7-year-old Matt. Both are autistic. The couple said the boys need five-point …
Man paralyzed by herpes denied benefit: top court – CBC News
18 Dec 2009 at 1:59pm
Canada’s top court has ruled that a man paralyzed by a sexually transmitted disease is not entitled to a disability payment from his health insurance company, saying the circumstances of his condition were outside the coverage of his policy. The …
Letter: Of legislation, Bismarck, sausages and health care (Dec. 30) – Corval…
30 Dec 2009 at 12:59am
Your Dec. 29 editorial quotes German Chancellor Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck on legislation and the making of sausages. You write further about the current health care legislation. Perhaps a coincidental choice, since Germany has the world’s …
Are U.S. Workers Overpaid? – Huffingtonpost.com
2 Dec 2009 at 7:16am
If businesses in the U.S. cut salary and fringe costs by 35-65% (fringe costs consisting mostly of health care and dental, disability, life insurance), we will become a more competitive economy, especially compared to countries with an edge in …
Be ready for upcoming changes to insurance, personal finances – Houston Commu…
30 Dec 2009 at 11:39pm
The new decade being ushered in on Jan. 1, 2010, will bring some changes to our personal insurance and financial world. The last several months has seen much debate over our nation’s healthcare and health insurance costs, with the two often being …
Couples Are Better Able to Cope With Health Shocks Than Singles, Study … – …
28 Dec 2009 at 11:46am
In their study, titled “Household Responses to Individual Shocks: Disability and Labour Supply,” the researchers examined data from the Canadian Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) and found that in marriages, “main-earners” (typically …
Consumer Satisfaction Is a Key Priority at 2Insure4Less.com – Yahoo Finance
30 Dec 2009 at 6:35am
Consumers can search for insurance quotes for home, rented dwellings, disability, long-term care, cancer, burial, life insurance, annuity, general liability … com has been operating its free quote referral service, allowing insurance shoppers …
