Students at the University of Nebraska can breathe a sigh of relief as the University Health Center has promised that premiums will not be going up this year. Despite the troubled economy and skyrocketing health care costs across the nation, students are locked into the same rates they have been accustomed to for the next [...]

For the seventh straight year, rates of Americans insured by employer sponsored health coverage has dropped. This means that from the years 2000 to 2007, three million fewer people had insurance coverage through their employer. No age, race, or category of worker seems to have escaped this trend, as numbers have fallen across the board. [...]

Is it fair that high level students at Universities such as Stanford, Davis, and Irvine should be receiving federally funded health care for themselves and their families? As Universities continue to drop their healthcare plans, it is leading a larger number of students who are seeking masters degrees in law and medicine to turn to [...]

A recent study reveals that North Carolina leads the nation in the speed at which citizens are losing health insurance. They are first in the nation when it comes to children losing coverage, and a close second for the working population, behind only South Carolina. The rate of citizens with coverage has fallen steadily for [...]

A nationally unified group, not affiliated with any particular political party, is working to bring health insurance to all americans, as their name would suggest. Through peaceful rallies and events that bring awareness to the growing problem of the health care industry today, HIFAAM hopes to affect legislators into bringing about new laws that will [...]

It is a dangerous trend that is only getting worse in this economic downturn. Health care costs in some places are rising nearly five times faster than the average income. This means that already expensive premiums are becoming more expensive while salaries and wages cannot grow fast enough to keep up with them. As the [...]

Unfortunately, when a patient seeks treatment from a physician and finds out later that the treatment was not fully covered by their insurance provider, they are left with unexpected expenses and the burden of having to pay them. These “gap fees” as they are called, have affected more and more people in recent years as [...]

While the Massachussetts’ law requiring nearly everyone to have health insurance coverage was meant to lessen the burden on crowded emergency rooms, it hasn’t seemed to have solved the issue yet as the number of people in the ER has actually increased. Many doctors and nurses are blaming this on the fact that there are [...]

The American Veterinary Medical Association, or AVMA, is fighting to have pets health insurance included among employee’s pretax health benefits. This benefit would join a list of pretax options including group term life, medical, accident, and disability insurance, and adoption assistance. The AVMA is asking Congress to pass legislation amending Section 125 of the Internal [...]

Massachusetts is feeling the pinch of a declining economy just as acutely as any other state in the nation today, however for them, some relief is in sight. After securing a federal promise of 10.6 billion dollars over the next three years, Mass. will be looking to expand the nation’s first healthcare law and provide [...]