More than 700,000 Americans will suffer a heart attack this year. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the majority of heart attack sufferers will experience this situation for the first time while 210,000 of them will have already gone...
When you apply for coverage through an Affordable Care Act (ACA or Obamacare) health insurance marketplace, you're required to provide an estimate of the coming year's income. If you're a salaried employee who brings home the same amount of money in each paycheck,...
Heart attacks don't always start with the sharp chest pain that you see on TV or in movies. Studies have shown up to a third of people who've had heart attacks had no chest pain at all. Knowing how to recognize the symptoms of a heart attack as they're happening could...
There are a lot of myths surrounding vaccines. You may have heard that vaccines aren't necessary, that they’ll overwhelm a small child's system, that they don't keep illnesses away or even that they cause autism. You might even believe that vaccines aren’t safe or...
Social drinking is such a routine part of many people’s lives that they give it little thought, but that may be a mistake. Some of the latest research suggests risks vary depending on factors like age, health and other habits. A recent study from the National...
In 1988, an award-winning movie starring Dustin Hoffman made the American people aware of autism, but it also created one of the biggest myths surrounding the condition. Rain Man was the story of an autistic savant, a man who struggled with the limits of autistic...
With the individual mandate provision of the Affordable Care Act coming to an end next year, short term health insurance plans are being marketed as Obamacare alternatives, and one particular marketing effort recently reported by Rhode Island Public Radio shows that...
The Trump administration announced in mid-July that it would reduce funding for Healthcare.gov navigators this fall and encourage them to guide enrollees toward short term healthcare policies. Navigators were implemented as part of the ACA to help consumers purchase...
On Wednesday, August 1st, HHS (The Department of Health & Human Services) announced that it is changing the three-month duration limitation imposed on short term health insurance by President Obama, to allow people to have these plans for 364 days (essentially an...
On March 6, the comment period ended for a proposed rule to revise the way association health plans (AHPs) are regulated by the Employee Benefits Security Administration of the Department of Labor. The proposed changes include allowing AHPs to offer plans across state...
