Posts tagged health insurance

• Domestic Violence and C-Sections Considered Pre-Existing Conditions By Health Insurers

  Devon Glass | September 18, 2009 12:43 PM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  I know this may sound crazy, but a few recent articles have been discussing the issue of pre-existing condtions that can cause you to be denied health insurance. The one that I think is the most...

• Insurance Industry Claims Low Profits, High Expenditures on Medical Care

  David Mittleman | August 08, 2009 10:00 AM | 2 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the lobbying arm of the insurance industry, claims that “for every dollar spent on health care in America, approximately 1 penny goes to health...

• Special Needs Children Pay When Insurance Companies Don’t

  David Mittleman | June 30, 2009 2:29 PM | 2 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Last week I posted an article about Blue Cross Blue Shield and its agreement to pay families of autistic children a total of $1 million for behavioral therapy coverage. Although this settlement is a...

• Don't Believe the Hype that Affordable Health Care for Everyone is a Bad Idea

  David Mittleman | June 11, 2009 12:13 PM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Senator Shelby (R-Ala.) is apparently living in a world of his own: he currently stated on “Fox News Sunday” that Obama will “destroy the best health care system the world has...

• Health Insurers Propose to Accept All Applicants, With One Big Condition

  David Mittleman | November 28, 2008 1:53 PM | 1 CommentLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Last Wednesday, Health insurers released proposals to accept all applicants, regardless of preexisting disease or disability, IF Congress mandates all Americans have coverage. Although the if is a...

• Waiting Room Tragedies And The Need For Universal Health Care

  David Mittleman | November 05, 2008 2:06 PM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Candida Diego fractured her skull in a fall in September of 2004. After being cleared for a brain scan to check for bleeding, she became partially paralyzed because she spent two hours in a waiting...

• Searching For Loopholes - How Will Your Insurance Company Deny Your Claim?

  David Mittleman | August 28, 2008 11:31 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  After losing his brother to the war in Afghanistan and watching his parents suffer through the loss of one child, Andrew White, a Marine in the war in Iraq, took out a $50,000...

• Insurance Companies Don't Play By The Rules

  David Mittleman | July 23, 2008 9:46 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  While it is true that nearly 50 million Americans don't have health insurance, this does not mean things are perfect for people who do have insurance. In addition to problems of underinsurance,...