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Private Insurance - most related articles:

- Insurance status affects access to dental appointments - 6.7
- Physicians accepting fewer patients with health insurance - 5.9
- Individual health insurance not affordable in US - 5.7
- Employer health insurance premiums increased in US - 5.5
- High barriers to dental care exist for 12 million children - 5.4
- Uninsured diagnosed with an advanced stage cancer - 5.2
- Health, life insurers hold $2 billion in fast food stocks - 4.8
- Private hospitals more safer for pregnant women - 4.7
- Concerns over healthcare expressed by VP Hamid Ansari, India - 4.4
- Medicare serves elderly more effectively - 4.1

Private Insurance articles

Physicians accepting fewer patients with health insurance
There is a drop in physicians' acceptance of health insured patients in past years in US. As a result, insured patients could face new obstacles to receiving the medical attention they need, and overall access to health care could actually contract. As required under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, millions of people will soon be added to the ranks of the insured. However, this rapid expansion of coverage is colliding with a different, potentially problematic trend that could end up hampering access to health care.

Insurance status affects access to dental appointments
A study using research assistants who posed as mothers of a 10-year-old boy with a fractured front tooth seeking an urgent dental appointment measured dentists' willingness to provide treatment to children with Medicaid/CHIP versus private insurance.

Health, life insurers hold $2 billion in fast food stocks
Just weeks after the passage of a health bill that will dramatically increase the number of Americans covered by private health insurers, Harvard researchers have detailed the extent to which life and health insurance companies are major investors in the fast-food industry – to the tune of nearly $2 billion.

Urgent need for health care reform in US
US individuals should have a choice of public and private health plans, believe US health care leaders. They strongly support central components of health reform such as innovative provider payment reform and a national insurance health exchange with strong standard-setting authority.

Over 60% of US bankruptcies due to medical incidents
In 2007, before the current economic downturn, an American family filed for bankruptcy in the aftermath of illness every 90 seconds; three-quarters of them were insured. Over 60% of all bankruptcies in the United States in 2007 were driven by medical incidents.

Kids from low income families are without health insurance
New research at Oregon Health & Science University reveals millions of children from low- to middle-income families are going without health insurance, even when at least one parent has private health insurance through his or her employer.

Uninsured diagnosed with an advanced stage cancer
A new American Cancer Society study of twelve types of cancer among more than 3.5 million cancer patients finds uninsured patients were significantly more likely to present with advanced stage cancer compared to patients with private insurance.

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