Archive for March, 2009
Sunday, March 29th, 2009
Wiley Long asked: Medical tourism first began to get popular in the 1990's, when people began traveling in large numbers to Brazil for cosmetic surgery. But as costs have continued to rise, thousands of Americans have been traveling overseas for real medical conditions, such as knee replacements, by-pass operations, heart ...
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Sunday, March 29th, 2009
John Logan asked: Part of the reason that I initially got my insurance license, was that as a business consultant focused on change management, nearly every business owner, CFO and HR director that I spoke to asked me what I could do about the rising cost of their healthcare benefits. ...
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Friday, March 27th, 2009
Richard Evans asked: Review of the Golden Rule HSA Health Insurance products.Many companies offer an HSA product. There are not too many variations that can be made with these products, but there are a couple of things that differentiate their products from the others. First, the rates are very competitive ...
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Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Joseph Kenny asked: Making sure that your family is able to stay healthy partly depends on having a good health insurance program for them. One of the more recent new additions to the health insurance industry is called the Health Savings Account (HSA). This new program enables you to have ...
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Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
Wiley Long asked: Small business owners can now take advantage of Health Reimbursement Arrangements, or HRAs, as a way to cut their health insurance expenses in half. As health insurance premiums continue to grow, fewer small businesses are offering group coverage to their employees. For small businesses with healthy employees, ...
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Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Ajeet Khurana asked: There are many changes occurring in the health insurance industry and there are more options available than ever. For example, today you can have a savings account attached to your health insurance. This pairing is really getting popular because people want to save their money for such ...
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Saturday, March 21st, 2009
Marilyn Katz asked: mericans need to buy health insurance, and when they do, they have one question. They ask what the best health insurance plan is for their family. We actually have a lot more options than we did a few years ago, and that question is not easy to ...
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
Wiley Long asked: Americans spend over $30 billion each year on complementary and alternative therapies, mostly out of their own pocket. That is because few health insurance plans cover expenses like homeopathy, acupuncture, or Chinese medicine. But if you own a Health Savings Account, these expenses are 100% tax deductible.Health Savings Accounts ...
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Thursday, March 19th, 2009
Wiley Long asked: vings Accounts consist of two parts - the HSA bank account, and the high deductible health plan (HDHP). By carefully choosing which bank you use to establish your HSA, and strategically choosing how to fund your account and manage your investment, you will be able to get ...
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Saturday, March 14th, 2009
ryan@thesatellitetvguide.com asked: Looking to save money on your health insurance? Want to know how do it? Here are the 6 best ways to save money on your health insurance.1. Government health care programsFederal and state governments offer a number of low cost and no cost health care programs for low ...
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