Discount Cards are Not Health Insurance

Health insurance is almost a requirement in today's society.  If you get sick or injured, then you need to go to a doctor and when you go to a doctor, you need health insurance to make the cost of seeing that doctor more affordable.  You also need health insurance to cover you and your family from more serious conditions in life.  However, it's important that you realize that the discount card provided by many companies
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California Major Risk Medical Insurance Program Unaffordable, Inaccessible For Some Residents (Medical News Today)

Rising premiums and limited subsidies have made California's Major Risk Medical Insurance Program -- a high-risk pool that provides health coverage to uninsurable residents with pre-existing health conditions -- "either unaffordable, unavailable or ineffective for many of those who most need health insurance," the Los Angeles Times reports.
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Insurers morph into money managers IdahoStatesman.com, ID - 3 hours ago BY MICHAEL A. HILTZIK - LOS ANGELES TIMES In 2007, WellPoint Inc.,
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Schwarzenegger signs bills creating hospital privacy oversight office - Los Angeles Times

Schwarzenegger signs bills creating hospital privacy oversight office Los Angeles Times, CA - 8 hours ago The governor said that without the other provisions of his plan -- including a requirement that all Californians hold health insurance -- the measure was ...
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ChattahBox Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Healthy San Francisco Plan Kaiser network.org, DC - 23 hours ago ... every city and state in this
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BillWatch: SB 840 nixed, Perata water bill OK'd - Sacramento Bee

BillWatch: SB 840 nixed, Perata water bill OK'd Sacramento Bee,  USA - 16 hours ago "The governor's veto betrays the promise he repeatedly made to Californians to protect them from insurance companies canceling their health insurance when ...
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Consumer Watchdog: Arnold Betrays Patients as Veto Trashes His ... MarketWatch - 15 hours ago Los Angeles Times, "State fines 2 health plans over canceled coverage; Anthem Blue
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Legislature OKs Health Insurance Bills; Governor's Action Unclear - California Healthline

Legislature OKs Health Insurance Bills; Governor's Action Unclear California Healthline, CA - 23 hours ago ... "We're going to need to make health care a bigger priority next year, because we obviously didn't come close to completing the work" ( Los Angeles Times ...
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Associated Press - September 4, 2008 11:24 PM ET LOS ANGELES (AP) - Blue Shield of California wants to show the state how
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California Gov. Schwarzenegger Signs Law That Bans Insurers From ... - Kaiser network.org

California Gov. Schwarzenegger Signs Law That Bans Insurers From ... Kaiser network.org, DC - 23 hours ago ... (AB 1150) that prohibits health insurance companies from rewarding employees who cancel or limit an enrollee's coverage, the Los Angeles Times reports. ...
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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) on Tuesday signed legislation (AB 1150) that prohibits health insurance companies from
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Insurers should cover birth control (The Daily Iowan)

When a female reporter from the Los Angeles Times asked Sen. John McCain why many health-insurance plans cover Viagra but not contraceptives, even his many years of interview experience seemed unable to lead him to an answer. The presumptive Republican nominee could not recall how he voted on the subject - a mystery soon solved by his questioner: He voted against it.
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California doctor gets 10 years in insurance fraud

A Southern California doctor was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for billing health insurance companies more than $9 million in unnecessary surgical procedures, prosecutors said.
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Economic Changes Have Weakened 'Protective Value' of Insurance. However, "the benefits that really count for the vast majority of working-age Americans are their employer-provided benefits -- the health insurance and ... 'Hell's Kitchen': It's Christina Los Angeles

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Insurance firm, Anthem Blue Cross, in crosshairs

Calif. to seek fines against Blue Cross, Shield

California health insurance regulators are scrutinizing 1,770 patient policies canceled by Anthem Blue Cross to see if they can impose a penalty stiffer than a $1 million fine they announced last year but never enforced.
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Doctor gets 10 years in 'rent-a-patient' scam. A Southern California doctor was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison Monday for billing health insurance companies
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