The extension passed yesterday is retroactive to March 1. As a result of this latest law, most individuals involuntarily terminated from employment between March 1 and March 31 will now be eligible to apply for the 65 percent premium reduction and continuation coverage. The new extension of the eligibility period did not change any of the other requirements and did not lengthen the maximum period for the premium subsidy or change any other eligibility requirements.

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Stay Well!

Are you ready for healthcare reform that spends millions while increasing premiums for most individuals? 

Texas Health and Life encourages our customers to get involved and contact your senator or congressman no matter what your party affiliation is and tell them what you think about reform

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To learn more about health insurance, visit http://www.texashealthandlife.com.

You like many others have received the letter from UNICARE explaining that they are not going to offer health insurance in the state of Texas any further.  What are your options and how do you figure out what to do from here?

There are some very important details that you need to know before you make a switch to the carrier they are allowing you to switch to without any medical underwriting.

Texas Health and Life and their agents have extensive knowledge on your options to make sure that you are still getting the best benefits at the best cost.

Please shoot us an email or call us to show you the best transition from your current UNICARE plan.

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To learn more about health insurance, visit http://www.texashealthandlife.com.

Beware of plans that state “Association Members Benefits Include or Pre Existing Conditions OK”

These plans are often oversold and serious under-deliver when you use them. 

If you are looking for something other than health insurance because of the price call Texas Health and Life.  We have partnered up with several top notch accident plans carriers that are well worth the monthly amount.

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You can visit www.texashealthandlife.com to compare plans.

Is your COBRA stimulus expiring with your employer and you are now responsible for 100% of the premium?

We at Texas Health and Life have recently helped several customers in this situation and we actually have a carrier that will cover you with most any pre-existing condition.

Please let us know how we can be of service to you.

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To learn more about health insurance, visit http://www.texashealthandlife.com.

Until we have had a chance to read the full 2,074 page Reid Bill, it’s impossible for Americans to fully grasp what the Majority Leader has cooked up behind closed doors. It is my hope that Sen. Reid will afford all Americans the same courtesy that he had: ample time to study the legislation and deliberate the best way to proceed.

What we do know so far, as reported by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), is that this bill will have a wide, negative impact on Americans across the board – from seniors on Medicare to small business owners to future generations of Americans who will be footing the bill. The bill will increase taxes on all Americans by nearly half a trillion dollars and breaks the President’s pledge not to raise taxes on working families earning less than $250,000—at a time that unemployment is at a 26-year high.

While CBO has not been given time to analyze the Reid bill’s impact on premiums, every other independent analysis to date has found that Reid’s new mandates and taxes will increase health care premiums on American families. The Reid bill increases taxpayer spending and liability for health care over the next ten years—instead of reforming our already insolvent entitlement programs. It will gut the already insolvent Medicare program by $464.6 billion, hurting access to care for seniors. It includes a government-run public option that will, according to CBO, have premiums higher than private plans and cause millions of Americans to lose the coverage they currently have. The largest expansion of Medicaid since it was created means the Medicaid program will be the only coverage option for 60 million Americans. It will also impose $28 billion in punitive taxes on employers who do not comply with Washington’s new job-killing mandates.

These initial findings are troubling, to say the least.  You can access the full text of the Reid bill from :http://cornyn.senate.gov/public/?p=HealthCareReformHQ.

It is essential that Congress take the time get health care reform right. If the President and Majority Leader are more interested in getting health care reform right for all 300 million Americans than they are in putting a political feather in their cap for the midterm elections, this shouldn’t be an issue.  (part of the above article provided from newsletter of Senator John Cornyn).

Please take the time make your voice heard no matter what your view is on healthcare reform by contacting your congressman or woman and or senator.

Also know that if true healthcare reform is passed into law that none of the changes will make an impact until around 2014–so don’t let your plan cancel or lapse in expectations of an guaranteed option covering your needs in the immediate future.

Thanks for reading and be well!

To learn more about health insurance, visit http://www.texashealthandlife.com.

This service is being performed at the St Davids medical center in Round Rock for only $139.95 –with or without health insurance–it does not matter.  The service includes Stroke/Carotid Artery screening, and Abdominal Aortic Aneurysum Screening, and Peripheral Artery Disease Screening.  Plus you get the results 4 business days after the procedure. 

Call 1-888-802-3115 to make an appointment.

Thanks for reading and be well!

To learn more about health insurance, visit http://www.texashealthandlife.com.

Read the information below and see if it gives you a clearer picture on what is truly being proposed.  We at Texas Health and Life do have an obvious interest in keeping health insurance in the private market but we also agree that we need the health insurance companies to develop better ways to control premiums from year to year.  It makes our job much easier when we can keep a customer with a carrier for 3 to 4 years rather than moving them every year because the premium has gone up over 20%–ridiculous!  We are not supporting either side of a political view in our blog but just the position that healthcare reform needs to be a complete overhaul of our current system and not the public health option.

Read some interesting information below about the bad and some good of the proposed healthcare reform:

The large proposed cuts of federal reimbursements to hospitals are also of particular concern. Hospitals are required to provide millions of dollars in uncompensated care to uninsured residents. Our rural hospitals, which serve a low number of patients, operate with little to no profit margin. Reducing these hospitals’ badly needed federal reimbursements could result in reduced services, or even worse, the closure of entire facilities. Additionally, to keep their doors open, hospitals may be forced to pass these cuts to patients with private insurance, resulting in even higher premiums and driving up health care costs further in Texas.

The proposals being put forward will reduce patient choices, drive insurance companies out of business and have minimal impact on the uninsured population. Further, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has repeatedly stated that both House and Senate bills will not bend the curve on cost growth over the long term.

Reform must provide an opportunity for everyone who wants health insurance to obtain it. The insurance market must be one in which competition is encouraged between insurance providers based on transparency and value, making health insurance a buyer’s market in which patients have affordable choices and know what plans cost and offer.  The Health Care Freedom Plan would provide a $2,000 voucher for individuals and $5,000 voucher for families to purchase health insurance on the private market. Increasing the number of insured will increase competition in the market place and bring down costs. This bill ensures individuals receive the same tax benefits that businesses receive for health insurance coverage, allows individuals to keep their insurance policy, and lets them keep the doctors they trust even if they change jobs. By enacting these reforms, and by simultaneously containing skyrocketing costs through payment reform, prevention initiatives, and the provision of adequate care for those with chronic conditions, we could achieve quality health care reform.

Thanks for reading and be well!

To learn more about health insurance, visit http://www.texashealthandlife.com.