The Health Insurance Blog

Last Monday, The Cape Girardeau City Council decided that there will be no increase in the rates charged for covering families, the deductibles will still the same and they will continue to offer a plan with a health savings accont.

The health savings account aims to keep costs down, thus will make people more carefully about their monthly cost on health care. As said by Mayor Jay Knudtson”

“The good thing is they gut out a sore throat and don’t go to the doctor,” Mayor Jay Knudtson said. “We have to drive that mentality. I’m not saying that if they are sick, don’t go to the doctor, but use discretion.”

You can read about it here:

Sorry tho say this, but according to Robert Feldman, state worker shoul pay more for their health insurance coverage. Man, could you believe that? When the world economic is in chaos and now this?

Like i read in Lasvegassun.Com:

“ARSON CITY – A proposal is being batted around by a government efficiency committee to require state workers to pay for more their health insurance.

“Employees need to pay a fair share” of the costs of the plan, says Robert Feldman, a member of the Spending and Government Efficiency Commission (SAGE), which met in Reno Friday.”

You can read more here….

Wow, this would hurt my bank account rather my life…*sigh*

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This year, America facing an election season, And one of the issue among the candidates are health insurance coverage. Although many issues have come to surface, but this subject could be a way to win the race.

Barrack Obama propose a universal health insurance, health insurance coverage for all citizen of the USA, whether they don’t have coverage or they don’t have the quality to get subsidized care, or they who already have a health insurance plan in their family.

And for John McCain, planning that health insurance for employer is taxable. But there would be a refundable tax credit, that can be use to buy the health insurance policy they want.

In the end, although oil price raise and wars in Middle East came to front of every newspaper and media in the State, health insurance would be still an issue that always our concern years to come, even to our grand-children.