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

Insurer Plans to Drop Coverage for Elderly Couple

An elderly couple who live in Oklahoma received a letter from their insurance company that stated that the insurer would be dropping their coverage. The husband has pancreatic cancer. However, it isn’t their health insurance company who is dropping them. We have all heard stories in the news about people who have health insurance, and then get sick with a serious illness. Often, what happens next is that their health insurance company finds a way to drop them, or to increase their premiums to the point where the person can no longer afford to pay them. Health insurers are no … Continue reading