May 16th, 2010 
Health Guardz 
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE
What Is Private Health Insurance
Private health insurance can be taken up by consumers by paying a monthly premium for individuals or families. There are various advantages that private health insurance provides and below are just some of the reasons why consumers should be taking up one.
Advantages of Private Health Insurance
Choices! Choices! Choices! You have more choices with a private health insurance.
You can cater the coverage to your specific needs. For example, group health insurance does not usually come with maternity coverage. If this might be important to you, not only can you opt for the coverage but you can also decide upon the level of the coverage.
Besides adding on to the coverage, you can also choose to drop any options or cover that you deem unnecessary. This can help reduce your premium quite significantly.
You also get to choose the deductible and the copayment of the insurance plan. By choosing a higher deductible (must be within your financial limits), you also get to bring down your premium. You can also choose to bring down your monthly premiums by eliminating items that are needless for yourself or the family in the plan.
One big advantage of private health insurance as compared to employer sponsored group insurance is that your coverage is valid and yours as long as you pay the premium. Hence the insurance coverage for yourself and your family is independent of external circumstances like job, unemployment etc.
Disadvantages of Private Health Insurance
Private health insurances are more stringent in their conditions of acceptance. Consumers have to undergo health checks and some pre-existing conditions may render a person ineligible for private health insurance for those conditions.
Private health insurances also base their premiums on age. Hence the premiums will rise gradually in correlation with the consumers’ age. Hence it is critical to review the private health insurance cost annually and decide if maintaining the private health insurance is the best choice for you.
Private health insurance may also be less comprehensive than group health insurance. Hence often, consumers will find that conditions and treatments (such as maternity) once covered by their private health insurance are no longer valid.
Ways To Get Your Private Health Insurance
There is a variety of choices out there for private health insurance and consumers can search online for the best plan for them with optimal coverage at a reasonable cost. For some consumers, it might be better to enlist help of trained professionals who can suggest the best private health insurance for them based on their needs.
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The entire health care bill is not going to be tossed out. Just the sections that are illegal.
What type of moron voted for a bill they did not read.
@Donovan
You will find extremists of both side of the fence. But that is not the norm. Everybody knows the health care system in this country is broke. But the main pints in this bill is increased taxes, increased control and transferring money from the medical community to the legal community through law suites. It has very little to do with health care.
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I’m not sure what the guy was getting at when he mentioned talking to a doctor about blood pressure medication. Hypertension, if inadequately treated, is a killer. It can cause heart failure and/or strokes. Surely, talking to a GP about the best way to treat it is a sensible way to go.
@enterintoexit Whatever you say Mr. I believe everything you say. Europe good, USA bad. Socialism good, Capitalism bad. You good, me bad.
Did I leave anything out?
@enterintoexit Ah yes. The typical liberal, socialist, foreigner response. Insult and then tout that your system is so much better.
Funny how Europe is such a shit hole in almost every aspect when compared to the US. But I am sure you are happy with it.
well i know how you feel my OB will not do the 2nd ultra sound until 24-28 wks also for the same reasons and he said that its possible to know the sex at about 17-18 wks but its not always accurate bc the organs may not be fully formed and what if you pay for a scan and the baby has its legs closed…you would have wasted your money. I would say to just wait (thats what i'm doing) and its hard esp when your so impatient, but the waiting will pay off lol
They have a death wish?
@migkillertwo Never underestimate the power of stupid, lazy liberals. Provide them all the information in the world and they will still vote to give themselves $1,000 per month as apposed to putting forth a little effort and earning $4,000 per month.
Why not cutie?
"Mexican ambulance drivers are driving their hospital patients who can't pay for medical care in Mexico, to facilities in the United States. They know that the federal Emergency Medical Act mandates that U.S. hospitals with emergency-room services must treat anyone who requires care, including illegal aliens.
Medical service for Americans in affected communities is being severely damaged as hospitals absorb more than $200 million in unreimbursed costs. Some emergency rooms have shut down because they cannot afford to stay open. Local tax-paying Americans are either denied medical care or have to wait in long lines for service as the illegals flood the facilities. In California, the losses are calculated to be about $79 million, with $74 million in Texas, $31 million in Arizona, and $6 million in New Mexico."1
These costs are staggering. The Cochise County, Arizona Health Department spends as much as 30 percent of its annual $9 million budget on illegal aliens.3 The Copper Queen Hospital in Bisbee, Arizona, has spent $200,000 in uncompensated services out of a net operating budget of $300,000.3 The University Medical Center in Tucson may lose as much as $10 million and the Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center, also in Tucson, has lost $1 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2002.3
As noted above, in a recent year in Colorado, the state's emergency Medicaid program paid an estimated $30 million in hospital and physician delivery costs for about 6,000 illegal immigrant mothers – average of $5,000 per baby.
The Gwinnett, Georgia, Hospital System expects has established a $34 million reserve to cover its anticipated outlay for illegal aliens in 2003. Los Angeles Times columnist Ronald Brownstein wrote in his December 30, 2003 column that the 'Health-Care Storm Brewing in California Threatens to Swamp U.S… the impending Medicaid disaster is not a problem the states can handle alone; their budget shortfalls are too big.'2
"The General Accounting Office traveled to southern Arizona to study the impact of illegal immigrants on Arizona and other border state hospitals. In 2002, three hospitals located in Cochise County funded more than $1 million in uncompensated health care costs… The Florida Hospital Association surveyed 28 hospitals and found that health care for illegal aliens totaled at least $40 million in 2002."2
More competition means businesses need to eventually cut their costs to compete. Increasing quality is going to mean increasing costs. We see this everywhere; the cheapest and best selling products are the ones that have cut the most corners in production. Do you really want ‘made in china’ style health care?
Ultimately making health care a business means MONEY MATTERS not HEALTH and PEOPLE. Look at government-run health care in Europe and tell me it doesn’t work.
okay, wastefullll
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I work for a company that is trying to put the free market back into the health care system and LASIK will always be our favorite example of how prices drop and quality improves as soon as patients stop spending someone else’s money. When it really feels like your own dime, you’ll find the best value for that dime.
No, I don't.
@karozans and you’re a complete dolt who, like so many that have commented here, can’t see past gross generalizations and absurd comparisons.
No. While I think his plan is better than McCains, it will not solve the insanity where there are loads of uninsured Americans, though there will be less than there are now.
At present, American kids are more likely to die before the age of five compared to kids born in Western Countries with universal healthcare. The insane bit of that is that the USA spends more money on healthcare per person than any other nation on the planet.
Only Nader is pushing for universal healthcare. Obama is not.
@tomol57 Good God. I think if tomorrow all the rich people moved to Antarctica and took their money with them; people like you would put a pistol in your mouth and pull the trigger because you would no longer have anyone to blame for all of your shortcomings.
If you hate the wealthy so much either stop giving them all of your money when they tell you that the next iPhone is better than your old one or become a rich person and give all of your earned money away.
Damn!!!! You are a cry baby.
@karozans I hope life is good in your bubble, away from the ‘liberal, socialist, foreigners,’ especially when it all goes to hell. I say when, but it’s a reality now. Europe is a big place, yet you’ve somehow managed to lump it together into one entity and generalised it as ‘shit’ – congratulations! Go look at the socialist Nordic countries and how accusingly awful they are (if by awful, you mean the statistically happiest places in the world).