Insurance Blog Week in Review – July 8 – 14, 2012

Every week, the Insurance Blog Week in Review brings you a quick and easy way to “ketchup” on the blogs that have been posted here in the past seven days. There could be anywhere between twelve and fourteen blogs that appear. Which ones did you miss? Jan Brewer Wants to Take Away Health Insurance Benefits Arizona Governor Jan Brewer wants the Supreme Court to allow her to terminate health insurance coverage for the same-sex partners of state workers. An appeals court would not allow her to do that. The Insurance Podcast Roundup went up on July 9, 2012. This time, … Continue reading

Coast2Coast Rx is not Insurance – But is Helpful

Have you heard about the Coast2Coast Rx card? It isn’t health insurance, but it could save you some money on prescription medication. From the research that I have done, the Coast2Coast card seems a whole lot more legitimate than the Rx Relief card is. Coast2Coast Rx got an A+ rating from the BBB. This week, I have learned about two, entirely different, cards that can be used to get a discount on prescription medication. I cannot help but wonder if these things are suddenly “popping out of the woodwork” because there are so many Americans who are currently without health … Continue reading

The Rx Relief Card is Not Insurance

My husband received two Rx Relief cards in the mail. It came from a company called Healthcare Alliance. A little digging around on the internet revealed that this is something to stay away from! Everything about it sounds like a scam. The mail my husband got from Healthcare Alliance looked very much like what one would receive from a legitimate insurance company. The letter said “Good news- You’ve been accepted!”, which is odd, because my husband never applied for anything from this company. The letter had two, plastic, cards attached to it that, at first glance, look very much like … Continue reading