How Can Unisured Diabetics Afford Health Care?
Medical Help For Uninsured Diabetics
Options For Uninsured Diabetics
Even though it has been over a year since the Affordable Health Care Plan passed, many Americans still wonder how to afford health care, especially for uninsured people with pee-existing conditions.
Diabetics have always struggled. Group policies, through employers, should cover most medical services and prescriptions. However, many Americans lack group coverage. Few major medical policies will accept diabetics on an individual or family health insurance plan. Since proper care is crucial to maintain health, how can families get help?
Categories: Health Insurance Tags: diabetics, health reform, uninsured
Concierge Medicine: Health Crisis Symptom or Problem?
What is concierge medicine?
Does Concierge Medicine Make Doctors and Patients Happier?
A concierge medical practice charge patients a yearly fee in order for patients to belong to a medical practice. Sometimes these are also known as retainer based medical practice, similar to having a lawyer on retainer.
Typical fees may range from $1,500 to $1,800 a year. Fees and care levels do vary though. Some practices may only charge a $500 fee while others may charge $5,000. Sometimes this type of practice is also known by other names like boutique or retainer-based medicine.
Categories: Health Insurance Tags: concierge, doctors, Health Insurance, health reform, Medicare
Health Reform: Health Insurance Exchanges Explained
Health Insurance Exchanges Explained
As I detail one of the biggest parts of the new US health reform act, bear with me. The exchanges are part of President Obama’s US health reform act. This was signed in March of 2010. However, health insurance exchanges are only implemented in a few places right now. They are scheduled to be implemented, by each state, by 2014. So things are still fluid, and this means that things could change.
The fact that things are fluid, and that the actual program has not yet been implemented, probably explains why a lot of the information is a bit confusing and vague. I am doing my best to reduce the information to something simple.
Categories: Health Insurance Tags: health reform, insurance exchanges
2010 Tax Break For Self Employed Health Insurance
More Self Employment Tax Breaks For Small Business Health Insurance
Health Reform and Small Business
Just when it looked like all of the health reform changes were not doing much to help most small businesses owners, it seems like we may have missed something which can make a large impact on our total tax bills. Since 2003, self employed people could deduct health insurance premiums from their taxes. This only seems fair since employees with group plans did not have to pay taxes on company contributions and large employers certainly got a tax break. But was it fair enough?
Categories: Health Insurance Tags: health reform, self employed, Small Business
