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• Area Pediatrician Offers Alternative to Health Insurance for Basic Healthcare
  In the picturesque coastal port city of Bellingham, Washington a local pediatrician has decided to stop accepting health insurance. Instead he is offering the parents of his young patients something that is becoming growing alternative to traditional medical care, concierge service.
• Report Finds Health Insurance Reforms By Leading Democratic Candidates Lacking
  Sometimes when looking at political candidates it is easy for one to draw the conclusion that "they really are all alike". This may seem especially true in the current field of Democrats vying for the Whitehouse and their stand on health insurance reform.
• Life Imitating Art? Was Clinton Hostage Taker Driven by Lack of Medical Insurance
  In "John Q" the first feature film to point out the plight of the those without health insurance, Denzel Washington's character took hostages in a bank because his health insurance would not pay for a life saving operation his son desperately needed.
• Politicos Shouldn't Talk Health Insurance Reform Without Talking About Disparities in Healthcare
  Health insurance and healthcare reform is on the tongues of many politicians in local and national political campaigns across the nation. Some very good things have been said about what needs to be resolved about the nature of health insurance and healthcare in the country today. Yet one thing has been noticeably absent from much of the debate, the ongoing disparity in access to healthcare and health insurance among minorities.
• Senators Bob Bennett and Ron Wyden Offer Bipartisan Solution to Health Insurance Ills
  To watch the current presidential candidates on both sides debate healthcare reform one could quickly get the impression that affordable health insurance is being looked at as an "either/or" proposition. The cure to our medical insurance and helthcare woes is "either" single payer government sponsored universal healthcare, "or" greater free-market competition between health insurance companies.
• Health Insurers See Benefit to Industry in Some Plans for Universal Coverage
  You might think that the recent calls for Universal Health Insurance are adamantly opposed by the insurance industry. There is a mistaken belief that all calls for Universal Health Insurance cut health insurance companies out of the picture and therefore the powerful lobbying and political influence of the large medical insurance companies will never allow such proposals to be passed. However, in reality, the insurance industry actually supports some of the democrats proposals for so called Universal Healthcare.
• Health Savings Accounts Bound to Become More Popular in '08, Say Experts
  Financial and insurance experts alike expect to see an increase in the number of health insurance consumers signing up for health plans that feature Heath Savings Accounts. Such consumer driven high deductible health plans that offer the flexible savings accounts have begun a slow rise in popularity. The number of Americans with an HSA rose by about 2% over last year. In 2008 more and more companies are likely to be offering such medical insurance plans in an effort to cut costs without cutting benefits. Consumers are also likely to become much more aware of these types of medical insurance plans as political candidates, insurance companies, and financial planners push them.
• Consumer Alert: Health Insurance Scams on the Rise
  As the year draws to a close it is the time that many people reassess their healthcare insurance needs for the next year. Those with employer based medical benefits are offered "open enrollment" periods to renew or change their health insurance plans. For those with individual or private health insurance, experts also agree that this is a good time to evaluate healthcare costs over the last year, and decide what if any changes may be needed in your individual health insurance plan. Experts also warn that because of this, it is a time when health insurance scams are on the rise.
• Program Helps Baby Boomers Get Affordable Health Insurance
  Baby boomers are coming of age. And that means they are affecting many markets from housing to health insurance. Many boomers are electing to retire early, when they are between the ages of 55 and 64.
• Third Quarter Profits High for Popular Health Insurance Company
  Amidst calls for health insurance reform, some of the top insurance carriers in the nation continue to boast record profits. Despite some dips in stock prices based on lower income projections for 2008, Philadelphia based Cigna Corporation recently announced that its earnings for third-quarter '07 rose 22 percent. The increase was primarily based on increased premiums and fees. Cigna claimed that earnings would be lower than analysts projected for '08 due to stiff competition.
• PPO's Gaining Popularity Among Health Insurance Consumers
  It has been said, "as goes Maine so goes the nation". Well if the Northeast is any indication then it seems that PPO's are becoming the most popular type of health insurance plan, according to a recent study.
• AMA Continues to Present its Ideas for Health Insurance Reforms
  "Physician heal thyself"-it is a well known proverb, and now the country's best known organization for physicians, the American Medical Association, has set its sights on healing what is ailing the nation's health insurance industry.
• Too Many US Vets Lack Health Insurance
  A recent report on veterans and healthcare has been released with some distressing findings. The report put out by the Harvard Medical school found that almost two million U.S. veterans are without access to health insurance. The report goes on to say that more than half of the vets that do not have health insurance said they had no place to go when they were sick.
• McCain Still Adamantly Opposed to Mandated Health Insurance
  At a recent forum in Washington DC, Republican candidate for President John McCain once again reiterated his position on health insurance. McCain is strongly opposed to any kind of universal or mandated health insurance coverage and believes medical insurance should remain a matter of choice for most Americans.
• Americans Just as Interested in Convenient Healthcare as Low Cost Health Insurance
  A recent report by a well known research group found that Americans are almost as interested in convenient healthcare as they are in low cost healthcare.
• Joe Bidden Reveals His Medical Insurance Reform Plan
  Presidential candidates on both sides of the aisle are realizing what an issue healthcare and health insurance reform will play in the upcoming elections.
• Settlement On Healthcare Benefits Between GM and Workers Misses Mark On Drugs
  The good news is that GM and the United Auto Workers Union managed to settle their differences and reach an accord on the company's medical insurance liability issues. The bad news is that the union's larger parent organization the AFL-CIO says the agreement does not do enough to keep the costs of drugs down under the prescription drug coverage.
• A Dividend of Universal Health Insurance: Some Stocks Likely to Do Well
  There is no doubt that the idea of universal health insurance can has sparked great debate in this country. As consumer advocates, medical professionals and politicians from both sides of the aisle debate the pros and cons of some kind of "health insurance for all system," there has been one factor noticeably missing from the discourse.
• As State Health Insurance Reforms Falter – Maybe it is Time for Federal Solution
  Since nationwide healthcare and health insurance reform has been a slow process at best, for a time it seemed that the best hope for helping the 47 million Americans without affordable health insurance lay with the individual states. Massachusetts passed the most sweeping health