Posts Tagged ‘affordable health insurance’
If You Like The Health Insurance You Have Now
you can keep it . . . unless of course it goes away. Obamacare has already started to create casualties and the latest, at least for Georgia health insurance plans is another health insurance company that will no longer offer maternity benefits. Right now there are only two choices for maternity coverage in Georgia . . . Blue Cross and Kaiser. If [...]
Coming Soon to a Health Insurance Company Near You . . .
The full effect of Obamacare (Patient Protection and Unaffordable Health Care Act) has not fully been scoped out yet. But over the next few months the early stages of Obamacare will be phased in. First on the agenda is doc fix. In order to "not add one dime to the deficit" the folks in Washington voted to cut Medicare provider payments by 21% [...]
Employer Provided Health Insurance May Go Bye-bye
If you are looking for a job, especially one that provides group health insurance, don't be surprised if you come up empty. The intent of Obamacare (Patient Protection and Unaffordable Health Care Act) was to make health insurance more accessible and more affordable. In fact, it does neither. Many large companies have already crunched the [...]
Blue Cross of Georgia May Empty Your Wallet
If you have a Georgia health insurance policy through Blue Cross (BCBSGA), you may be in for an unwelcome surprise. Some of their plans may not cover your brand name drug. I discovered this quite by accident while helping a friend navigate her new BCBSGA health insurance policy purchased through Blue Cross direct (no agent involved). She is a bit [...]
Student Health Insurance Sucks
A family friend is enrolling at Vanderbilt University in the fall and I was asked about affordable health insurance options. We are providing a "bridge" plan to the fall as requested, but I decided to take a look at the plan endorsed by the university. Having had two students in college already I knew that health insurance plans pushed [...]
DIY Georgia Health Insurance
When it comes to buying health insurance in Georgia, it seems some folks just want to do it themselves. I have been in this industry for more than 30 years and can't imagine why anyone would want to go to the trouble of looking at hundreds of health insurance plans, going to numerous websites, entering your information over and over only to [...]
Golden Rule Leaves Children Behind
Golden Rule (United Healthcare/UHC) is no longer issuing "child only" health insurance policies in Georgia. The official announcement was passed along this morning. This follows on the heels of withdrawing maternity options for all new health insurance policies issued after 4/30/2010. To my knowledge, Golden Rule is the first to [...]
Will Blue Cross of Georgia Cancel My Coverage?
Anthem/Wellpoint, parent of Blue Cross of Georgia, has been in the news over rescinding policies of women with breast cancer. The Reuters article made it appear as if Anthem/Wellpoint had a top secret computer program that was designed to target women who were diagnosed with breast cancer and capriciously cancel these policies. The logic was as [...]
I Need Health Insurance But Can’t Afford It
If you need health insurance in Georgia but think you can't afford it, chances are you are not looking at the right coverage. You are not alone. Many people have never bought health insurance before and don't know how to look for the right plan. If they had health insurance from an employer they think they need to replace it with a plan that is [...]
The Future of Health Insurance in Georgia
If you want to know what the future for health insurance in Georgia holds, you need look no further than Maine. Health care reform has been passed in Washington and those seeking affordable health insurance in Georgia will be disappointed at the new Obamacare plans. We don't need a test tube to predict the future. All we need do is look at states [...]
