July 6, 2010 – New York State Insurance Superintendent James J. Wrynn announced on Tuesday that the average medical malpractice insurance rate increase this year for New York doctors will be 5%.
The increase was effective as of July 1st and followed medical malpractice insurance rate freezes for the past two years.
The rates increases were for [...]
July 4, 2010 – A recently released survey commissioned by Mondial Assistance shows that four out of every ten Americans haven’t had a vacation over the past two years. That’s a 6% increase from last year.
Daniel Durazo, the director of communications for Mondial Assistance noted that, “There are a lot of people who haven’t [...]
July 2, 2010 – A new, easy-to-use website is now on the Internet that is designed to answer any questions people might have about the Affordable Care Act, which is often referred to as “Health Care Reform.”
Healthcare.gov was released by the Department of Health and Human Services. When you first go on the site [...]
June 30, 2010 – In their search for bone marrow donors, Anthony Nolan Trust, a UK leukemia charity, will be encouraging people to spit into a DNA test kit starting on July 1.
They hope to double the number of lives they will be able to save when it becomes the first charity in the world [...]
June 30, 2010 – A Health Savings Accounts (HAS) is offered in conjunction with a high-deductible health care plan.
It is designed to give people tax advantages when they save for current as well as potential future medical expenses.
Although the funds that are deposited into an HSA are pre-tax dollars, the interest that is earned is [...]
June 29, 2010 – A special coverage program targeted to help uninsured Americans who have existing medical problems will be launched this week.
However, even after government subsidies the monthly premiums may be out of the reach of most of the people the program intends to help.
In addition, the program may be short lived because although [...]
June 29,2010 – Calvin Cole, the president of one of the fastest growing private companies in the United States – California based StemCyte – says that there are now approximately twenty five states that have laws about educating parents about cord blood banking.
Cord blood banking is a process that permits vital stem cells to be [...]
June 28, 2010 – Time is running out for millions of Americans. If Congress does not act before the end of June approximately 1.2 million more Americans will lose their unemployment benefits as well as their health insurance.
And many millions more will also lose health insurance benefits for themselves and their families.
The current COBRA [...]
June 24, 2010 – A new study will be presented at 92nd annual meeting of The Endocrine Society this week showing that insulin resistant obese women lose more weight eating a lower carbohydrate diet than eating a low fat weight loss diet that has the same number of calories.
This small study, led by Raymond Plodkowski, [...]
June 22, 2010 – A new study released by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) released the surprising yet gratifying results of an 9 year study on Tuesday. When they looked at automobile crashes drivers who are older than 70 were involved in they found that there was a 37% decline in fatal [...]
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