Insurance - Health Insurance

At prices as low as $40 a month, some medical groups are offering something that's cheaper than a gym membership, and just as good for your health -- unlimited access to their services without having to go through an insurance company. The plans are called Direct Medical Care -- and go by other...

Are we about to become a toothless nation? Once upon a pre-recessionary time, dental insurance -- along with matching 401k's and other now long-forgotten benefits -- was a pot-sweetener among American corporations trying to lure the best and the brightest to come work for them. Now, it seems that...

Hard times make for hard choices -- especially when it comes to prioritizing which bills get paid, when what you have is not enough to cover all your expenses. But there are some bills it behooves you to keep high on the priority list. A Tennessee homeowner found out the hard way this month when...

Open enrollment season is here, and that means you likely have some serious choices to make about your benefits package on the job – especially your healthcare options. With employers increasingly shifting healthcare costs to workers, it's important to know all your alternatives before...

Lorie Sandoval, 53, is a middle-class wife and mother who had the misfortune of getting seriously sick in the midst of the Great Recession. Her diagnosis: ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- Lou Gehrig's disease) is tough enough, but the financial toll it has taken on the Sandoval family's...

About 50 million Americans -- one in six of us -- don't have health insurance, the census said last month. At the same time, health care fraud -- from useless discount cards to outright bogus insurance plans -- is a growing dark market. Where do a majority of Americans now turn to get health...

Congress is weighing a new bill that would keep medical debt from wreaking havoc on millions of consumers' credit ratings. On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed, by a vote of 336 to 82, the Medical Debt Relief Act, also known as H.R. 3421. The bill, originally introduced last...