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Benefits of Short Term Health Insurance

June 9, 2010 – 12:30 pm

Young adults are all too often caught up in their busy life styles and milestone events. From a new career and home to graduation it’s easy to be sucked into a whirlwind forgetting about the importance of health insurance. The story of Kelly Ives is reminder enough health insurance should be a priority and taken [...]

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A Longer Wait to Join Parent's Health Insurance

May 25, 2010 – 8:46 am

As final preparations are being made for the health reform to take effect in September, parents looking to add their children under age 26 may need to make preparations of their own. The following question was recently asked of the New York Times: Currently we have Cigna Insurance through my husband’s policy (the policy period [...]

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Graduating Out of Health Insurance? Not for Long!

May 19, 2010 – 12:44 pm

Graduating comes with many responsibilities of adult life from a new home to paying off student loans, graduates have more than a few things on their mind. Prior to the new health care bill insurance carriers, for the most part, allowed students to stay on their parent’s plan until graduation – but not a minute [...]

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Graduating 'Young Invincibles' Uninsured

April 28, 2010 – 11:23 am

Soon to be graduates of 2010 have found a light at the end of the tunnel, but they’re not there yet. Before graduation ceremonies, students frantically study for finals, attend interviews, begin making living arrangements and all too often overlook their health insurance. What many students do not know is if they are covered by [...]

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GradGuard & College Parents of America Launch Student Protection Plan

April 26, 2010 – 12:43 pm

GradGuard was excited to announce in a press release it will be working with College Parents of America to launch the Student Protection Plan, featuring tuition refund insurance and other insurance benefits to protect students from potential losses. The conjoined efforts of College Parents of America and GradGuard promises to bring a multitude of insurance [...]

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WANTED: Affordable Student Health Insurance

April 26, 2010 – 11:43 am

A survey titled “Real Life 101″ taken this past March by eHealthInsurance revealed too many young adults were uninsured. The survey interviewed 1,016 adults between the ages of 18 – 30 years including full-time students and graduates of the past three years. A couple key facts “Real Life 101” uncovered include: one-in-five (21%) of adults [...]

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Health Reform To Affect Students

April 15, 2010 – 12:27 pm

According to www.healthreform.gov, approximately 30 percent of young adults are uninsured. This catastrophic number is expected to fall when The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is enforced. The new health care bill President Obama signed into law this past March, effective in the next six months, will benefit college-aged young adults in many ways. [...]

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Health Care Reform In YOUR State

March 24, 2010 – 1:10 pm

Health Reform has made its way to law in a one thousand some page document… so what does it actually say? CBS Capital Hill Producers Jill Jackson and John Nolen break down the basics in their report Health Care Reform Bill Summary: A Look At What’s in the Bill. According to their report the new [...]

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Florida State Universities to Require Health Insurance

February 12, 2010 – 4:00 pm

As Washington D.C. fights a war on health care reform Florida rages its own battlefield. The Florida legislation may soon consider adding a new requirement for state-funded university attendees to hold health insurance. Although the measure did not pass through legislation last spring it’s expected to surface again next session. Some opposition to this measure [...]

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Short Term Medical Insurance Key for Graduates

January 25, 2010 – 2:37 pm

Recent and soon to be graduates look forward a bleak job market as a recession continues to drain job opportunities. As jobs are scarce so it seems is health insurance among graduates. Whether a grad is or is not employed the risks of injury and illness remain. “38 percent of high school graduates who do [...]

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