The Carrollton City Council is looking at ways to trim its budget, and cutting the cost of health care is one of the proposed means. The Kentucky County currently offers its employees health insurance at no charge to the employee and extends is to the employee’s spouse and children. In many cases, this offers spouses [...]

Fifty years ago America was in a much better place than it is today, with workers enjoying fat paychecks that allowed them to buy the many goods and services that our nation was producing. It was a beneficial cycle. Some attribute those healthy paychecks with heavy union involvement, considering that the unions not only protected [...]

Obama has been openly inviting contributions from the public on ways that our nation’s health care system can be improved. The overwhelming majority are leaning toward a universal health care structure present in the majority of other developed nations. While many are not willing to abandon the current system of employer based health insurance, skyrocketing [...]

A letter written recently to the Argus Times expressed concern that health insurance benefits provided to teachers were unfairly costly to tax payers and indicated that teachers did not contribute anything to their health insurance coverage. In response, a local school teacher wrote in to defend herself and her coworkers stating that teachers do indeed pay a [...]

Many feel that health insurance reform is an integral part of improving the economy, but also feel that the current system does not need to be completely abandoned, simply altered and strengthened. Supporters of the employer based delivery of health insurance benefits feels that instead of shifting away from the system which has been in [...]

For many people working at a small company which cannot offer its employees health insurance benefits, the matter comes down to whether you can afford it on your own, or if you can get coverage under your spouse, or for some, it boils down to being forced to look for another job. For employees of [...]

Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida — Moran Insurance & Financial Solutions, a human capital consulting firm agrees that as the economy worsens and more people find themselves without employment, more people are also finding themselves without insurance. Unfortunately the meager amount of unemployment benefits do little to cover the astronomical costs of COBRA, insurance available to [...]

A recent poll conducted on behalf of Colonial Life shows that more than half of employees don’t fully understand their coverage when it comes to health insurance. While the poll focused on cancer coverage, it just suggests that the prevailing attitude toward health insurance is to not worry about it until you need it. Employees are [...]

In Oklahoma, experts are looking at ways to make sure all of its citizens are covered under a health insurance policy. This is no easy task, but given that public assistance is available to far more people than take advantage of it, and the incredibly high number of employed citizens who are not covered, there seems [...]

While Obama has declared that all American citizens happy with their current health insurance plan will have the option to keep it, his other plans to establish more government run programs may come into conflict with this. Employers will have the option to either provide health care to its employees, or to pay into a [...]