Tag Archives: health reform

Student Health Insurance Review by the Wall Street Journal

September 26, 2010 – 7:16 pm

The September 26th edition of the Wall Street Journal published an article titled “How College Health Plans Are Failing Students”. The article fails to address just how few affordable choices students have if the school plan does not meet their needs. GradGuard shares the goal of colleges that seek to mitigate the risks that could interfere with a students goal of completing an education. Health coverage is fundamental to this goal and is addressed through GradGuard’s Student Health Plan. In addition to GradGuard’s Student Health Plan, GradGuard also offers tuition insurance, college renters insurance and the Student Protection Plan.

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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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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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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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Waiting for Health Insurance is Becoming Risky!

January 27, 2010 – 6:30 am

If you have been following the updates on health care reform, the results from last week’s U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts made the future of health reform legislation unclear. If you are currently waiting for the debate to conclude, you may be leaving yourself open to serious risks. In December 2009, Opinion Research Corporation conducted [...]

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Rethink on Reform Forced After Senate Upset

January 26, 2010 – 6:52 am

After the recent death of Senator Edward Kennedy, the former 47 year Massachusetts Senate seat holder, elections took place. It took Massachusetts voters one day to end the serious chances of congressional Democrats and the Obama administration passing sweeping health care reform without support from Republicans. The recent victory of Republican Scott Brown to represent [...]

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President Obama – Health Reform

June 16, 2009 – 8:55 am

President Obama’s new health plan is flooding the media, creating quite the controversial buzz. Obama is pushing the creation of a bill to give  health insurance to every American on his desk before congress takes a month break in August. However he is not the only one pushing for national health coverage.  According to the Washington [...]

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