Posts Tagged ‘health insurance’
Health Insurance Rates: Are Increases Threatening Consumers?
July 23rd, 2010 | 
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With the recent Anthem Blue Cross rate hikes as a backdrop, Marian Mulkey, CHCF senior program officer, testified on medical costs and insurance premiums before the California Assembly Committee on Health (2-23-2010). The text and slides from her testimony are at www.chcf.org.
Duration : 0:9:39
Posted in Health Insurance News | 
Tags: Anthem Blue Cross, California Assembly, CHCF, Committee on Health, health insurance, health insurance rates, health reform, health-care costs, insurance premiums, rate hikes | 
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Louisiana Public Square
Health Care Reform: A Louisiana Perspective – Are you satisfied with your current health insurance? While health care reform is on the nation’s radar, what will current proposals mean to you? Are you satisfied with your current health insurance? While health care reform is on the nation’s radar, what will current proposals mean to you? http://www.lpb.org
Duration : 0:0:31
Posted in Louisiana Health Insurance |
Tags: health insurance, Health Insurance Louisiana, health insurance reform, Louisiana health care, Louisiana Healthcare, Louisiana Healthcare Plans, louisiana public broadcasting, lpb, Medical Insurance |
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Open for Questions: Health Care
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius answers your questions on health care.
Duration : 0:17:32
Posted in Health Insurance News |
Tags: Health care, health insurance, obama, sebelius, White House |
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Age of Majority for Emancipation in Louisiana?
I am 19 years old, and the age of majority for Louisiana is 18. In Mississippi, it’s 21. Currently, I do not have plans to live with my parents due to religious reasons (and more), and I’m filling out my FAFSA. It seems that, unless a student is emancipated or born before 1987, filing the FAFSA will be based on parental income. If I do not live in my parents’ house and go to church with them, they refuse to support me on car insurance, health insurance, and school.
If I fill out the FAFSA as a dependent student, I will need their tax information. If I do not, I’m more likely to receive help with school.
Any ideas?
*If I do not fill out the FAFSA using their tax information…
It seems that the questions I answered determines whether I need to enter my parents’ tax information. Three of those questions were about my being born before 1987 or being emancipated. The others were about marriage or armed forces.
The age of majority has nothing to do with anything. The FAFSA is based on federal laws. In the U.S. you are considered a dependant until you are 24 years old, married, a mother, or determined to be homeless by the court in the county you live in.
Health bill passes House Saturday night: mandatory vaccinations for all HIPAA H1N1 resistors
http://www.pamil-visions.net/220-215-for-obama-joseph-cao/27696/
WASHINGTON, DC By a slim margin, the House of Representatives on Saturday night passed a bill meant to overhaul the nation’s health care system.
The 220 to 215 vote on HR 3962, Affordable Health Care for America Act, was taken late Saturday evening, and fell largely along party lines, although 39 Democrats voted no and one Republican Rep. Joseph Cao of Louisiana voted yes, according to C-SPAN.
Tonight, in an historic vote, the House of Representatives passed a bill that would finally make real the promise of quality, affordable healthcare for the American people, President Obama said. The United States Senate must follow suit and pass its version of the legislation. I am absolutely confident it will, and I look forward to signing comprehensive health insurance reform into law by the end of the year.
Duration : 0:1:24
Posted in Louisiana Health Insurance |
Tags: 2012, baxter, Care, h1n1, health, health insurance, Health Insurance Louisiana, health insurance reform, hospital, hr3200, Joseph, Louisiana health care, Louisiana Healthcare, Louisiana Healthcare Plans, Mayan, Medical Insurance, merck, moshe, nursing, obgyn, Pandemic, plague, ukraine, vaccine |
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I need insulin syringes, 23 YO, UNCONTROLLED Type II Diabetic, UNINSURED in East Baton Rouge, LA?
I moved to East Baton Rouge, Louisiana from Orlando, Florida in November, 2009. I used to purchase my own insulin and insulin syringes since I am uninsured and cannot get a health insurance policy of any kind and not sick enough for medicaid. I brought my last box of syringes and ran out about a week ago. I have been trying to purchase them here but everywhere I go they are asking me for a prescription when in Orlando, FL I used to purchase them without a prescription. I DO NOT have a doctor and DO NOT have insurance to see one. I CANNOT afford to pay the $134.00 fee to see a doctor at the local clinic and the local charity clinic refuses to give me an appointment claiming "they are booked for the month to try again next month". I explain profusely that this is an EMERGENCY and that I need help but cannot afford to go the the ER (again) and get another $2,000.00 bill and have nothing done for me like always. And nothing. I FEEL myself dying. I’m dizzy, tired/sleepy, moody, my kidneys are hurting mostly my left one, my stomach hurts, and worse of all, my blood glucose is averaging at around 400mg/dL lately because I don’t have syringes. Walgreens, CVS, WalMart, Albertsons, Winn Dixie, Target, Rite Aid, pretty much EVERY pharmacy says I need a prescription to buy syringes. I need help and I need it like last week. 
I can order online but it won’t get here til next week. All I need are like 20 til I can receive these syringes. I CANNOT afford the $32.00 overnight delivery fee. Should I just wait and die or… ? Does anyone know where I can legally purchase syringes locally? Any input/ideas/suggestions are appreciated. Thanks in advance.
I purchase my insulin WITHOUT a prescription because I can’t afford to see a doctor. Thanks though. 
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Have you tried taking your insulin into the pharmacy with when trying to purchase the syringes? The problem you’re encountering is usually a store policy, not a law, although Louisiana may have a law. I live in Texas and can buy syringes without a prescription (at Walmart) and have done the same in Arizona when I lived there. Some pharmacies assume everyone has insurance and for insurance to pay, you need a prescription. Have you tried explaining that the purchase is self-pay? I encountered this in Arizona once, and after I got through to the guy that no insurance was involved, I was able to buy the syringes. If you can get into Texas, you might have better luck, but you might want to take your insulin with you just in case they give you any crap. Hope this helps.
how would you characterize the effects of the Obama scandals on this nation?
the stimulus that didnt stimulate
cap and tax
the louisiana purchase
the backroom corhusker deal to avoid public debate on health insurance over 50 percent of america doesnt want.
sestak
romanoff
school records being sealed
citizenship records being sealed
illinois voting records being sealed
apologizing for our immigration laws to mexico when theirs are clearly more draconian
the nomination of known tax cheats (daschle and geithner) to govt position
the nomination of known racists (sotomayer) to the supreme court.
etc.
He has had the best effect on the Right since Ronald Reagan. He has awaken more conservatives, Democrat and Republican, than any other candidate in decades.
People are more patriotic, informed and involved in politics.
Thank YOU Barack Hussein Obama
Nurses Join President Obama on Health Care Reform
President Obama is joined by members of the American Nurses Association as he speaks about the urgent need for health care reform. He praises the progress in the Congress, and says inaction is not an option. July 15, 2009 (Public Domain)
Duration : 0:9:43
Posted in Healthcare Reform |
Tags: health care reform, health insurance, President Barack Obama |
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Will Obama fail to save American capitalism from itself?
Because that’s what he’s clearly trying to do, I believe.
– The financial bailout plan (following in the steps of the Bush financial bailout plan)
– temporary government takeover of the auto companies (plus big government subsidies for the auto companies)
– the half-bungled plan to reform health care insurance & make it affordable (while not allowing the government to compete with, or take over, the private insurance companies)
– even Obama’s badly timed effort to promote more offshore oil drilling, as a way of paying off the big oil companies in return for their agreeing to climate change legislation –
All of these Obama government initiatives are aimed at fixing the most self-destructive parts of this economic system, without actually turning the USA into a real socialist society where the government owns most of the economy and there are no more rich private investors.
But can Obama actually succeed in reforming capitalism, regulating it here & deregulating it there, trying to clean up its worst environmental and human disasters without actually ending the domination of American society by big money?
Can he succeed in uniting the "red states" and the "blue states" around some compromise solution that will satisfy laid-off American workers, angry Louisiana fishermen, nervous environmentalists and greedy oil oil company executives & bankers, all at once?
Or is he attempting a band-aid solution as a cure for terminal bone cancer, suggesting that nothing can be done?
Modern America is not the America of the 1950s.
The system was never designed to handle an interdependent world financial system stradled by giant multinationals.
America has shifted from being a capitalist country built on small business to one guided by giant, powerful corporations. Power has also shifted dramatically from elected officials to corporate leaders who also own most of the "free" media.
There is no easy answer on how to fix the system. But it is no longer working.
President Obama Meets with Gulf Residents
President Obama speaks after meeting with local residents at Camardelle’s Live Bait and Boiled Seafood on Grand Isle, Louisiana.
Duration : 0:10:59
Posted in Louisiana Health Insurance |
Tags: Bob Reilly, Bobby Jindal, BP, British Petroleum, Charlie Crist, Deepwater, Florida, Grand Isle, Gulf Coast, Haley Barbour, health insurance, Health Insurance Louisiana, health insurance reform, Louisiana, Louisiana health care, Louisiana Healthcare, Louisiana Healthcare Plans, Medical Insurance, Mississippi, New Orleans, obama, oil spill, Thad Allen |
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