Healthy Lifestyle – Hobbies Can Help You Live Longer
Hobbies can nurture a healthy lifestyle and even help you make some side income.
The Best Way to Get the Lowest Price on Prescription Drugs? Ask For It.
Every year there are prescription drugs that lose their patent license. A once pricey drug can be issued in generic form, dropping the cost considerably.
Poor Lifestyle Can Mean a Poorer Pay Check
Poor lifestyle habits can cost you significantly by penalties assessed by your employer who pays for your health insurance.
Retail Health Care: Health at a Healthy Discount
You have a miserable sore throat, might even be strep, without some health care you may die. But, you do not have health insurance and do not have a doctor.
5 Steps to Setting Up a Health Savings Account
Health savings accounts (HSA) are a type of bank savings. But unlike your standard savings, the money in this account can only pay health care expenses.
Sex is Not Relevant!
There is no difference in the cost of care nor the longevity of patients no matter the sex your doctor. Male and female doctors have equal costs of care.
New Healthcare Taxes: Hospital Insurance Tax on High-Income Individuals
The hospital insurance tax is a payroll tax that is deducted from a person’s paycheck, and it is most commonly known as the Medicare tax.
Patients In The Know: Save Money and Feel Better
Patient activation scores collected in 2010 were excellent predictors of health care costs for these patients in the first six months of 2012.
How to Find Affordable Health Care: Part II
This post deals with ways to cut your health care expenses if you do not have insurance or have insurance that is “catastrophic.”
How to Find Affordable Health Care: Part I
This two-part article first offers suggestions for the self-employed to find affordable health care insurance.
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