As technology keeps on evolving, small businesses have become the perfect online insurance customer. With new websites offering online quotes and applications for group health insurance coverage, small businesses are taking advantage of their savvy use of the internet and seeing what the online insurance companies’ websites have to offer.
Some online health insurance providers act [...]

The more than 46 million Americans without coverage will get sick more, earn less and die earlier than those with insurance. Here’s where to find help if you’re caught without it.
If you recently lost your health insurance, or if you’ve never had coverage, then you’re part of an unfortunate but growing national trend.
The ranks of [...]

Trying to understand auto insurance can be as tricky and confusing as trying to untie the Gordian knot. (We hear the knotty Gordian problem can be solved with a sword.) However, some “insider” knowledge can help you understand your options and what you can do to save money and get the most out of your [...]

With health-care costs on the rise, you may be looking for ways to lower your medical expenses. Here are 10 ideas:

1. Practice prevention
2. Shop around for health insurance
3. Cut the cost of prescription drugs
4. Check your medical bills
5. Join your spouse’s health plan
6. Keep track of your medical expenses
7. Negotiate a discount with your health-care [...]

(Washington, DC) – More than 6.1 million Americans are covered by Health Savings Account (HSA)-eligible insurance plans, a 35 percent increase since last year, a new census released today by America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) found.  HSAs were authorized starting in January 2004.  Since then, AHIP has conducted a periodic census of its members participating [...]

Health Insurance Coverage
Overview

The number of uninsured children increased from 8 million (10.9 percent) in 2005 to 8.7 million (11.7 percent) in 2006.

Race and Hispanic Origin (Race data refer to those reporting a single race only)

The number of uninsured, as well as the rate without health insurance, remained statistically unchanged in 2006 for non-Hispanic whites (at [...]