Top Reasons To Study Medicine

Interested to study medicine? This is the top reason why you are interested in studying medicine. The top reason is the result of a survey of medical students in America. 1. Plenty of opportunities upon graduating This reason is rarely stressed properly, but it truly is so. After gradutation there is a broad range of opportunities for future job. In case you find none of the possibilities appealing, you can combine them or invent your own......

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Urging Patience, Obama Says Problems With Health Care Sites Reflect Demand

Report from The New York Times,  President Obama urged Americans who have flocked to the new government-run Web marketplaces for health insurance policies not to give up because of the technical problems attributed to greater-than-anticipated demand. Fixes are under way, he said. Mr. Obama, in an interview with The Associated Press released on Saturday, said he did not have any figures to counter scattered reports that just a very small number of people have succeeded in signing up for insurance coverage since state and federal Web sites began enrollment on Tuesday for the so-called insurance......

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10 ways to get ready for the Health Insurance Marketplace

Open enrollment in the Health Insurance Marketplace is coming soon. Here’s how you can get ready to enroll starting October 1, 2013. Find the Marketplace in your state and get your options & info. Sign up for email or text updates about the Marketplace and connect with us on social media. Gather basic information about your household income to see if you qualify for lower costs on Marketplace coverage. Use this checklist to get started. Set your budget and estimate your costs and savings in the Marketplace. Make sure you understand how coverage works, including things like premiums,......

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The Affordable Health Care Act's Launch On October 1st––So How Did it Go?

Unavoidably, that will be the big question come Tuesday.But there will be much more to it than that.A 180-Day Open Enrollment––Not a One-Day Open EnrollmentWhat happens on the first day, for good or bad, will constitute only a tiny percentage of the open enrollment period. Consumers will likely visit the new websites many times before they make any decisions, and that is exactly as it sho......

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Benefit Shock? Consumers Will Be Surrpised By What They Find on the New "Obamacare" Health Insurance Exchanges

Will we have rate shock?It looks to me like consumers will have a choice when they get to look at the health plans available on the new "Obamacare" health insurance exchanges––rate shock or benefit shock. While there has been lots of focus on the issue of rate shock, I will suggest that just as big an issue may well be benefit shock—that consumers will look at what they will be getting for......

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So If the Maryland Health Insurance Rates Are So Cheap Why Did I Get This Postcard From Maryland Blue Cross?

That's what I wondered when I got this postcard; presumably sent to lots of people who live in Maryland:In it, (click on card to enlarge) Maryland Blue Cross is telling me that; "I am invited to obtain a [health] plan right now with rates that may be significantly lower than reform-compliant plans [their emphasis]."Are they suggesting there is rate shock coming? I was surprised to get this......

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Oregon Delays Key Element of Insurance Exchange––Good for Them!

Five years from now no one will remember if their "Obamacare" health insurance exchange launched on October 1. The state-run Oregon health insurance exchange, Cover Oregon, recently announced it will be delaying web access to the its new "Obamacare" health insurance offerings two to four weeks later than the scheduled October 1 launch date.People will be able to begin signing up for health......

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