The idea of doctors making house calls seems old fashioned. But for frail, elderly people with multiple health problems, home visits makes sense.
Starting this fall, the new health law will require new plans to provide a range of preventive health services. Should that include contraceptives?
The health-care overhaul will greatly improve insurance prospects for part-time workers – but not right away.
Many Democrats say HSAs are a tax shelter for healthy, affluent people who can afford to sock money away and leave it there to grow.
Some insurers treat pregnancy as a preexisting condition, charging pregnant women higher premiums, or refuse to cover childbirth costs.
The new health law could help to small businesses buy insurance, but the help comes with strings and not everyone thinks it will do enough.
“Sixty percent of the plans out there are pure junk,” says Stephen Beckley, a health-care consultant.
If you’re sick–or have ever been sick–and can’t get insurance, the new health law promises fast relief: access to guaranteed coverage starting in July.
Families face a gap in coverage of several months after graduation and before the law’s provision comes into effect Sept. 23rd.
Medicare covers little long-term care. Long-term care insurance, which pays benefits for a stay in a nursing home or assisted living facility as well as for home care, could offer some financial security.
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Don’t bet on it.
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