Life Insurance Company Will Add Fitness Tracking Data to ALL Policies Next Year
By Nicholas West One of America’s oldest insurance companies, John Hancock, has its eyes set firmly on the future. With the arrival of Big Data…
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Did You Know That Insurance Companies Are Not Covering Cell Phone and WiFi Radiation Exposure Health Issues? How Lloyd’s of London and Others Figure In.
By B.N. Frank This isn’t breaking news: High Risk Insurer, Lloyd’s of London, won’t cover any-wireless radiation hazards. This includes cell phones, cell towers, digital…
Obamacare Forces Companies to Drop Workers from Private Insurance
By Eric Blair We recently moved back to the mainland United States after ten years of traveling and living abroad. Our homeschooled kids are getting…
The Political Theater and the Debt Ceiling Crisis: Are We Being Had?
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts Infowars In my last column I suggested that an unintended outcome of the debt ceiling impasse could be Congress’ loss of…
Number Of Uninsured Americans Soars To Over 50 Million
Amy Lee Huffington Post Less than a year ago, Francis Campos-Dunn was still working at a county hospital in the San Francisco Bay Area, helping…
Most Driven Into Debt by Medical Bills HAVE Health Insurance
Washington’s Blog Most driven into debt and bankruptcy by medical bills have health insurance. For example, Reader’s Digest notes: Between 2000 and 2003, seven in…
Medicaid Cuts Hurt At The State Level
Carla K. Johnson Associated Press CHICAGO — In Illinois, a pharmacist closes his business because of late Medicaid payments. In Arizona, a young father’s liver…
Arizona ‘death panel’? State Medicaid cuts poised to let some poor patients die
Gov. Jan Brewer Sahil Kapur Raw Story A law in Arizona that cuts Medicaid funding for certain transplant operations is likely to bring about the…
Insurers use “Predictive Modeling”, Spy on Internet Posts to Gauge Risks
Leslie Scism and Mark Maremont Wall Street Journal Life insurers are testing an intensely personal new use for the vast dossiers of data being amassed…
U.S. and Britain in Partnership to Standardize Domination
Brandon Turbeville Activist Post It is an unfortunate reality that whatever policies are implemented in the UK are eventually implemented here in the United States….
Health Insurance Profits Soar, Dem Calls For Rebates
Ryan Grim Huffington Post WASHINGTON — Health insurance profits are skyrocketing in 2010 compared to last year’s returns and the outgoing chairman of the House…
Nearly 59 million Americans lack health insurance: CDC
Maggie Fox Reuters Nearly 59 million Americans went without health insurance coverage for at least part of 2010, many of them with conditions or diseases…
As Numbers of Uninsured Soar, Health Insurance Companies Plan Rate Hikes
James Ridgeway Mother Jones The latest report from the Census Bureau, which shows a significant rise in the number of Americans living in poverty in 2009,…
America’s Healthcare Insanity
Brad Mitchell Activist Post By now it is common knowledge the healthcare system in the USA is a disaster. It was a disaster before the…