Written by DeShena Woodard, BSN, RNUpdated on February 12, 2024 Key takeaways: Early retirement typically means leaving the workforce before you turn 65.If you retire early, you’ll likely need to find health insurance to cover you until your Medicare benefits kick in.You may qualify for free or affordable health insurance options through Medicaid or the...
by Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainHealth insurance premiums keep rising and many employees carry high-deductible plans that mean bills of $100 or more for a visit to the doctor. Meanwhile, the CEOs of the top 10 health insurance companies were paid between $13 million and $22 million in total compensation in 2022,...
Reviewed by Lily Ramsey, LLMAs summer edges toward fall, thoughts turn to, well, vaccines. Yes, inevitably, it’s time to think about the usual suspects — influenza and covid-19 shots — but also the new kid in town: recently approved vaccines for RSV, short for respiratory syncytial virus. But who should get the various vaccines, and...
By TILLY ARMSTRONG CONSUMER REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM PUBLISHED: 12:20 EDT, 16 May 2023 | UPDATED: 12:41 EDT, 16 May 2023 An expert has revealed how anybody can access documents explaining why they were denied a health insurance claim – including phone call conversations between your insurer and doctor. Health lawyer Juliette Forstenzer Espinosa said these files are free to access and...
by International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis Yearly average Social Security benefits from 1965 to 2005 in 2009 US Dollars. Credit: Journal of Health Economics (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2022.102717 A new study argues that expanding health insurance coverage can drive medical progress, support well-being, and even extend lifespan in the United States. There is a long-standing debate on...
Emergency medical coverage is one of the most important parts of a travel insurance plan, and one of the most misunderstood – especially when it comes to the issue of whether traditional health insurance or Medicare plans cover international travel. Basically, it boils down to this: you can help protect yourself against unplanned, often catastrophic...
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS Approximately 642 million people are expected to be diagnosed with diabetes by 2040, with Asians representing more than 55% of cases. Researchers conducted the first large-scale study since the implementation of medical insurance in China to evaluate the complexity and cost of drug therapy for Asian people with diabetes. They...
More than a quarter of American adults are experiencing COVID-related symptoms of depression, researchers report. Though 8.5% of adults were experiencing depression symptoms before the pandemic, the rate climbed to 27.8% of adults by mid-April 2020. “Depression in the general population after prior large-scale traumatic events has been observed to, at most, double,” says Sandro...
Racial minorities who are most likely to be inadequately insured against the costs of illness among those at increased risk of severe complications from coronavirus Even before soaring unemployment caused millions of Americans to lose their health insurance, 18.2 million individuals at increased risk of severe COVID-19 were either uninsured or underinsured, according to a...
Lauren Chase Lauren Chase is on the Research team at GoodRx. You may be familiar with the most common avenues for accessing health insurance, like your employer, Medicaid, Medicare, or the individual health exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). But if you recently lost coverage through your employer, aged out of your parent’s...
