Insurance Blog Week in Review – January 1-7, 2012

Things move pretty quickly on the Insurance Blog. There is the potential that you may have missed something that you would have liked to read. The Insurance Blog Week in Review is designed to give you a quick view of everything that was added there this week. It is an easy way to catch up! Americans With Health Insurance are Less Likely to Smoke A Gallup poll finds that Americans who have health insurance coverage are more likely to have healthier habits and are less likely to smoke than are Americans who don’t have health insurance. But, why is this … Continue reading

California Insures Thousands With Preexisting Conditions

California has been given federal funding that will be used to extend its preexisting condition program. This has allowed more than 6,000 people who have a preexisting condition to be able to obtain health insurance coverage. The program is intended to last until federal health reform kicks in in 2014. California was given $761 million in federal funding that is to be used for the state’s preexisting condition program. The state will receive $347 million of that funding in 2012. The rest will be used in the next few years, in order to fund a preexisting condition program in the … Continue reading