Health-Care Dollars Down the Drain

The leak is more a torrent than a trickle
For people living from paycheck to paycheck without health insurance, it would take a hefty cash advance or personal loan just to step inside a doctor’s office. And for people who have health insurance or extra cash stashed away for medical [...]

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Understanding the House Health Care Bill

Don’t jump to conclusions about HR 3200
There’s a lot of “news” floating around out there about House Resolution 3200. Unfortunately some of the discourse has devolved into scare tactics, misinterpretation and, in some cases, flat-out lies. Much like opponents of the people’s right to get a loan until payday call [...]

Don't believe everything you read.

More Health Care Doesn’t Mean Better Health

Health care . . . ad nauseam
Forty-six million Americans are without health insurance. For many uninsured people, emergency cash loans and payday cash advances take the place of health insurance. Health insurance premiums, co-payments, and deductibles are on the rise. Medicare will be a financial disaster within [...]

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Look To Installment Loans for Help With Health Care Costs

Rising medical costs
Americans are looking to installment loans as an option for paying growing medical costs. Whether people have health insurance or not, the rising costs of health care are making a huge dent in monthly budgets throughout the population. David Himmelstein, professor of medicine at Harvard, did a recent [...]

Caution: Graduate students at work ahead

Express Scripts Will Buy WellPoint’s NextRx Prescription Unit

Deal announced today
Pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts announced this morning it will buy WellPoint’s pharmacy benefit services, including its NextRx unit.
Express Scripts agreed to pay nearly $4.7 billion for the business, including both cash and stock.
Signaling a trend
Many analysts believe that other insurers like WellPoint, such as Aetna and United [...]

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Planet Hospital Lures Patients Who Want to Save on Medical Care

Prices drive sick people to other countries
A new type of business has sprung up as uninsured Americans desperately try to find ways to afford the medical care they need. Planet Hospital and other firms like it aid people with medical travel planning.
They are like travel agents, but the purpose of [...]

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Health Insurers Willing to Cut Down Pre-Existing Premiums

Making deals with Congress
When Congress asked the health insurance industry if it would stop charging higher premiums to customers with pre-existing conditions, it said “sure.”
So maybe it wasn’t quite so simple, but that is what it boiled down to.
Comprehensive health insurance
Congress is examining how it can create a plan that [...]

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Americans turn to eHealthInsurance for Medical Coverage Options

Americans get online health care quotes
The unemployment rate is still climbing, and that means more individuals and families are losing their health insurance. But just as the Internet has made everything from paying bills to Christmas shopping easier, eHealthInsurance is making it easier for people to get health care.
Avoiding devastating [...]

As the number of people without health insurance grows, so do their options.

No Job and No Health Insurance, the Rising Cost of Medical Care

No Health Insurance
I am healthy. I play basketball, I jog miles every day, I eat right, I don’t smoke (anything), I don’t drink and I always feel great. So, when I was laid off from my job, I didn’t buy the health insurance through Cobra. Anyway, everyone knows that medical [...]

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Families Won’t Need Payday Loans for Children’s Health Insurance

Payday loans can help your credit
Responsible borrowers only use payday loans for absolute necessities, and what is more essential than medical care? Sure, it’s easy to ignore those bills when they come in the mail, but take it from me, those bills will be turned over to a collections agency [...]

More kids will get health insurance thanks to a new bill.

Lost Your Health Coverage | Payday Loans Can Help

Need health coverage? Payday loans can help
Payday loans can help cover those short-term emergencies that attack your budget. But when it comes to maintaining one’s health over the long haul, it pays to have medical insurance. Unfortunately, it is often true that one of the casualties of a down economy [...]

Preparing For The Worst Could include Payday loans

Economic Turmoil Will Affect Those Who Don’t Start Preparing Now!
The state of our economy is getting progressively worse and at an alarming rate. More people are seeking help from third parties such as payday loans stores just to pay their monthly bills. With layoffs in 2008 quickly approaching [...]

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