Communication is becoming the least of what the average phone can offer these days. Phones have morphed into alarm clocks, navigation, calculators, organizers, and now add life-saver to that list. Parade magazine named iTriage one of ten mobile apps that could save your life. Designed by two emergency room doctors and an Aetna subsidiary, iTriage is intended [...]
Mon, February 27 2012 » Affordable Health Insurance, Healthy Tips to Keep Premiums Low » No Comments
Before health care reform, most individuals insuring themselves outside of a group never used their health insurance benefits unless something seriously went wrong. Why? Because in many cases they were sold catastrophic coverage, not because they had a bad insurance agent, but because it was the only affordable option. Catastrophic insurance coverage, AKA hit-by-a-bus insurance, will cover all expenses after the $10,000 or $25,000 deductible [...]
Thu, February 23 2012 » Affordable Health Insurance, Health Care Reform » No Comments
This is a true and very sad story as reported by CBS news last year; a man robbed a North Carolina bank to receive medical care in jail. I really wish he would have called his local insurance agent first because there are other options. If you can’t afford a low-deductible plan and don’t have [...]
Wed, February 22 2012 » Affordable Health Insurance, Insurance in the News » No Comments
Fri, February 17 2012 » Life Insurance » No Comments
One of the major reasons people get declined for individual health and life insurance is that they don’t fall within the limits of insurance carrier build charts. Build charts are based on height and weight, and obesity is a declinable condition. Fortunately, because of health care reform, there are further options to becoming insured if [...]
Thu, February 16 2012 » Healthy Tips to Keep Premiums Low » No Comments
February rings in American Heart month, so I wanted to highlight a couple of the campaigns that will be running over the next 29 days. The goal of Million Hearts is to prevent one million heart attacks and strokes over five years. There’s a heart attack risk calculator on their website if you think you could be at [...]
Wed, February 1 2012 » Healthy Tips to Keep Premiums Low » No Comments
