The Healthcare Coverage Post

Access to Wellness   Here’s a website describing different programs providing free or discounted medications. I’ve known several people who have contacted them and received the medications they need for free. The web author writes . . .

Without health insurance, or without enough of it, you might have trouble getting the prescription medications you need. Or you might find yourself choosing between medications and other important necessities of life. But you shouldn’t have to choose. Access2wellness is designed to help. It provides access to one of the broadest selections of assistance programs that offer more than 1,000 prescription medications for free or at a discount to those who qualify.

This site contains information about these programs and can help determine if you might be eligible to receive assistance.

It seems like yesterday I was in my twenties. I remember being in college and having my appendix out - the last thing on my mind as they were wheeling me into the operating room was how to pay for the surgery. Being twenty and not-so-aware of money management, I had a vague feeling that my parents would pay the bills, or that my limited college health insurance plan would take care of things. Thankfully, things worked out fine. My parents had a good policy that still covered me, and all we (they) had to pay was a $250. deductible. But, as a slightly older adult, I made many decisions to go without healthcare coverage, naively believing I’d never get sick. In my mind, I could either spend $300 a month for a policy, or spend the $300 paying my college and car loans. Read the rest »

This is what the candidates are promising now, but is this just campaign rhetoric or will they deliver? Clinton promises the most change, Obama pledges a middle of the road plan, and McCain offers more of the same. All I know is that they’ve got to do something. . . Read the rest »

This video could be one of those Saturday Night Live commercials, it’s that good. People are saying ”hell no, I don’t need to stick around for just the health insurance.” Love the part about the coffee shop employee putting soap bubbles in the woman’s latte.

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In all seriousness, in an article from The American Prospect online, Ezra Klein writes: Read the rest »

After hearing the phrase “supporting the troops” so many times over the past few years, I’ve begun to think that the military isn’t listening to their own slogan. In the article “Lawmakers seek to ensure benefits for war’s ’sole survivors’”, the Los Angeles Times writes:

Nearly eight months ago, Iraq veteran and Fresno County Sheriff’s Deputy Jason Hubbard lost the second of his two brothers in Iraq, leaving him as a “sole survivor” under military guidelines and requiring that he leave combat operations.

But after he returned home to Clovis, Calif., Hubbard, 33, was dealt another loss when the Army stripped him of his healthcare, took away GI Bill education benefits Read the rest »

I always wondered how the Massachusetts Universal Healthcare program would work out, and now we’re starting to get a good idea.   

Grace-Marie Turner, president of the Virginia-based Galen Institute, says although the number of insured residents has risen by nearly 350,000 since Mitt Romney signed the law two years ago, virtually all of it is subsidized by the taxpayer.

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