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Importance of Having a Health Insurance : Health insurance review 2008

Importance of Having a Health Insurance
by samrosy
Health insurances play several roles in helping people when they end up in hospitals. Uninsured people receive very less medical care when they end up having health complications; this actually becomes a burden for the family as they need to spend thousands of dollars for the medical bills from the hospital. Getting a health insurance also gives you lot of additional benefits and added services, so getting yourself insured aids you with timely coverage for regular or at least with annual health check ups. According to a medical institute, there are nearly about eighteen thousand deaths in uninsured adults. This can be due to numerous reasons, for instance most of them weren’t able to afford for the medical expenses.
Uninsured adults habitually get very few screening or preventive services. Shortfalls are noticed for many kinds of condition or illness, which is including screening for cancer diseases related to breast or cervical. As they are uninsured they often tend to ignore medical check ups, and they are more likely to get diagnosed only at a later stage of the illness, when treatment is not much successful. Pregnant women who are uninsured use lesser services, and children and adults who are uninsured are less likely than their insured counterparts to report having a regular source of medical care, to see medical providers, or to receive all recommended treatments and health check ups. Shortfalls are predominantly notable for conditions which are chronic. For example, adults who are uninsured and having heart conditions are less likely to stay on with drug therapy for high blood pressure.
So how your health insurance helps you indirectly? If you have a health insurance, you frequently visit the doctor for regular health check ups, as you need not spend money on your doctor or the medical expenditure is very minimum. If you’re insured and you come to know that if you have health complications, then you can treat yourself earlier to avoid further problems. But incase you are uninsured; you try to avoid health check ups since you need to spend lot of money. The biggest disadvantage of being uninsured, is that, if you end up having any disease then you need to shell out large amount of money. Today there are many health insurances available, which offer you great medical or health coverage. You can choose the Blue Cross of California health insurance, Blue Shield of California, Health Net, PacifiCare, Nationwide Health Plans, Cigna Health care, etc…

Comments

Betty said…
Health insurance do has several benefits. All my friends have already taken up this policy and enjoying the benefits of it, I am also in the process to buy one soon. But before that I do wanted to know the actual usage of this policy i.e how it works, what are the benefits of this policy. Thanks for explaining the importance of having health plan.
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