http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2010/06/shopping-for-health-insurance-start-here Daily dose of women's health news and media analysis Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:46:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2010/06/shopping-for-health-insurance-start-here/comment-page-1#comment-3992 Erina Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:30:17 +0000 http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/?p=11618#comment-3992 The Georgetown University Center for Children and Families is conducting a survey that will help policymakers understand how health reform is impacting the health care coverage of children and young adults. If you know someone whose child was denied health insurance coverage due to a pre-existing condition or had a pre-existing condition excluded from coverage, or has an under 26 year old child who is uninsured, please ask them to take this quick survey http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LGC2Q9R?ak_proof=1 The Georgetown University Center for Children and Families is conducting a survey that will help policymakers understand how health reform is impacting the health care coverage of children and young adults. If you know someone whose child was denied health insurance coverage due to a pre-existing condition or had a pre-existing condition excluded from coverage, or has an under 26 year old child who is uninsured, please ask them to take this quick survey http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LGC2Q9R?ak_proof=1

]]> http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2010/06/shopping-for-health-insurance-start-here/comment-page-1#comment-3712 Anne Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:25:23 +0000 http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/?p=11618#comment-3712 The health insurance industry in this country is so flawed, it is almost impossible to embrace it as a health care provider. Preventive medicine and fostering and rewarding healthy behavior is all but absent except in some of the premier plans. Some of the larger group plans in my area are penalizing a person for health problems despite the circumstances around which they arrived at those health problems. There are so many ways our health insurance industry can be improved, getting the lobbyist out of negotiations would be my first step! The health insurance industry in this country is so flawed, it is almost impossible to embrace it as a health care provider. Preventive medicine and fostering and rewarding healthy behavior is all but absent except in some of the premier plans. Some of the larger group plans in my area are penalizing a person for health problems despite the circumstances around which they arrived at those health problems. There are so many ways our health insurance industry can be improved, getting the lobbyist out of negotiations would be my first step!

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