Basically, I was pulled out of my driveway about to shift into gear when my neighbor backed out of their driveway and hit my car.
I have several witnesses to the accident
I got ran around for a FULL MONTH by their insurance (I just found out that the car that hit me was not covered) by a claims...
To comply with a statewide “fair pricing” law, hospitals throughout California have significantly lowered prices to uninsured patients, with nearly all even going beyond the state mandate and offering free care to those below the poverty line, according to a USC study published today in Health...
Eighty-nine million Americans were without health insurance for at least one month during the period from 2004 to 2007, and 23 million lost coverage more than once during that time, according to researchers at Penn State and Harvard University. "These findings call attention to the continuing...
Despite a twenty-five year old law that bans "patient dumping" the practice continues to put uninsured Americans at risk, according to a national team of researchers led by a professor at the George Washington School of Public Health and Health Services. Patient dumping is the practice of...
Twenty percent of U.S. women (18.7 million) ages 19-64 were uninsured in 2010, up from 15 percent (12.8 million) in 2000, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report on women's health care. An additional 16.7 million women were underinsured in 2010, compared with 10.3 million in 2003. The report...
I was rear ended and just found out the policy the lady gave me was cancelled prior to the accident. I have Dr. bills and ambulance bills that were more than my medical coverage. There was a police report and she admitted fault to the police. What should I do?
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan highlighted the Connecting Kids to Coverage Challenge to enroll five million children in Medicaid and CHIP within five years. Since Sebelius announced the Challenge...
Help from the new health law may not come soon enough for many Americans, according to a report. The Chicago Tribune: "[T]he nation's health system is continuing to fray, raising the prospect that the country could experience a crisis before the law establishes a health care safety net in 2014...
A report released Wednesday by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Barely Hanging On: Middle-Class and Uninsured, looks at the rise in the level of uninsured middle-class people in the last eight years. USA Today reports on the most significant national statistics affecting middle-class families...
The health insurance company WellPoint delivered on only about one-fifth of a $30-million pledge to help the uninsured, the Los Angeles Times reports. "It was not the first time the nation's largest insurer cast itself as an agent of change. In 2007, just as Democrats took control of Congress...
Georgians struggling with the lack of health insurance will soon get much-needed help when the National Association of Free Clinics (NAFC) in conjunction with the Georgia Free Clinic Network (GFCN) holds its next C.A.R.E. Clinic at the Georgia International Convention Center in Atlanta on March...
Kaiser Health News staff writer Julie Appleby, in collaboration with USA Today, writes that some states are paring back health insurance programs for low-income people - even as demand grows. "Sherie Brace fears the coming of summer. That's when a special health insurance program for low-income...
Des Moines Register: "Poor, uninsured adults from throughout Iowa could receive health care at nearby hospitals and clinics, instead of having to travel to Iowa City, under proposed changes to a state health-care program. For most Iowa residents, the IowaCare program pays for medical care only...
Several news outlets report on uninsured patients and access to health care. In Florida, "[t]he financially strapped Jackson Health System has stopped paying for dialysis treatments for 175 poor patients with failing kidneys -- a decision that experts say could be deadly," The Miami Herald...
Des Moines Register: "Poor, uninsured adults from throughout Iowa could receive health care at nearby hospitals and clinics, instead of having to travel to Iowa City, under proposed changes to a state health-care program. For most Iowa residents, the IowaCare program pays for medical care only...
Several news outlets report on uninsured patients and access to health care. In Florida, "[t]he financially strapped Jackson Health System has stopped paying for dialysis treatments for 175 poor patients with failing kidneys -- a decision that experts say could be deadly," The Miami Herald...
I have a friend who is unemployed and too old to be covered by her parents. I would like her to get some medical care for her mental health (we believe she has bipolar disorder), but I'm not sure how she could get help because she cannot afford it. Are there free public institutions that will...
appraised & deducted 30%.How? My bf driving through intersection breaked but still hit a company owned pickup truck that ran red light in Houston, Texas. My bf is uninsured and police gave other driver citation for running red light. The insurance company appraised my bf's vehicle and offered...
I know in the EU the driver is insured not the car - which is not the case here in the UK....but I am puzzled about one aspect of UK law, which i think is another big scam.
Scenario: You just brought a bargain second hand car off a private seller. Its Sunday night at 10pm, the car is untaxed...