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Reduce Your Health Care Costs
“Why are my health insurance costs going up at a rate that is so much higher than inflation?” Experts say there are no easy answers, but there are straightforward explanations.
Insurance companies work within fixed and highly-regulated operating margins, and premium increases are a “pass-along” expense from rising doctor, hospital and other medical costs.
Short-term major medical fills tall order for “in-betweens”
The nation’s current economic downturn has sent reverberations through the corporate world, creating waves that have put hundreds of thousands of Americans who previously had health coverage adrift – and desperately seeking a safe harbor.
But layoffs are only the most visible of the multitude of ordinary, but life-changing, events that create millions of “in-betweens” – [...]
Student health insurance options: required reading for college-bound
Long before the first class of the first college semester begins, prospective students and their families need to begin doing their homework to ensure that their health coverage will not only continue uninterrupted, but that coverage will receive more than a passing grade.
A recent report released by the Government Accounting Office revealed that roughly 1.7 [...]
