Visit on FacebookBlue Cross Insurance Rates Take a Hike
Blue Cross customers may be blue after hearing that the company’s rates will increase sooner rather than later. In a time when the cost of health insurance is a major issue for the majority of Americans, this news is anything but good. California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner voiced his concerns with these rate hikes [...]
COBRA’s Insurance Coverage Expanding
More good insurance news! President Obama has just signed a bill that allows laid-off workers to remain under COBRA for up to 15 months, rather than the previous 9 months. In addition, the insurance eligibility cutoff has been pushed back to February 28th, 2010 instead of December 31st, giving people more time to obtain coverage. [...]
Health Care Spending Slows
Although spending came to a tortoise-like pace in 2008, the U.S. still managed to shell out an average of $7,681 per person that same year. And when the total comes to $2.3 trillion, something doesn’t seem right.This spending issue is nothing new to President Obama and the lawmakers hoping to change the system and lower [...]