Health Insurance Quotes and Gender Pricing
Posted on January 28th, 2011
For many years health insurance companies have considered gender when calculating health insurance quotes and this was justified by the statistically different health needs women have verse men. According to the article “State Law Levels Premiums” found on DailyBulletin.com, the state of California has recently passed a new state law which prohibits California health insurance companies from using gender factors when pricing individual policies.
Some experts believe that gender rating affects women negatively and increases their health insurance rates over men. The new health care reform bill will prohibit this nationally but not until 2014, so California is just staying ahead of the game by implementing the rule early. Dave
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Illinois Vision Insurance Quotes
Posted on September 9th, 2010
According to the article “Council to Vote On Voluntary Insurance Plan” by Jennifer Bailey on Commercial-News.com, there may be a change to vision insurance quotes in Danville, IL affecting Illinois health insurance.
In Danville, they are considering authorizing an agreement for voluntary dental insurance and voluntary vision insurance for current city employees and retirees. According to Risk Manager Kathy Courson, the success of the dental plan prompted many workers to inquire about a vision plan to help with vision insurance quotes in their area.
The city will provide the means for employees to get coverage on an individual basis. The
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Major Medical Insurance Quotes
Posted on August 14th, 2010
Major medical insurance quotes are rising across the nation and according to the article “Health Care Premiums Are Already Soaring In Advance of Obamacare” by Bradley Blakeman on foxnews.com, it’s mostly because of the onset of healthcare reform just around the corner.
Just this past month millions of Blue Cross Blue Shield members received notification that their health insurance premiums were going to increase effective immediately. The main reason given was that the overall rise in healthcare is causing costs to be passed on to customers. Many
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