#insurance

Just a gosh darn minute. People who know about #USA medical #insurance and #medicalrecords and #legal stuff, I hope you will give some #advice. I'm trying to make an appointment with a dentist. They have a couple of pages of painfully repetitive forms to fill out online. At the end, they require a digital (like actual bitmap etc.) signature, and then they drop this. I can't make my appointment without signing and submitting this, and simultaneously agreeing to the stuff in this text. Is this normal? I mean the signature part. have I missed this in previous medical forms? It is alarming to me that they are asking me to give them my signature to use as they wish, whenever they wish, no expiration date, and no restrictions except "insurance submissions." Why do they need MY signature if I'm not submitting the forms? Isn't this how insurance works: the provider submits things and they sign or whatever? Is this standard practice and I just haven't noticed?

Adding a Child to Your Car Insurance? Here Are Ways to Hold Down the Costs. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/your-money/car-insurance-child-costs.html #PersonalFinance #Insurance #Family

"The MAHA movement’s embrace of corporate sponsorship runs counter to its anti-corporate message: that the food and health care industries have knowingly poisoned Americans’ health, causing obesity, vaccine injuries and chronic disease. The MAHA PAC, its political fundraising arm, has also accepted large donations from companies." https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/20/maha-rfk-summit-walmart-anthropic-openai-01084806 #PublicHealth #MAHA #HHS #insurance #PhRMA #vaccines #immunizations #USpol

In my rural state of #Vermont, and I presume others, all the #hospitals have ceased to operate birthing centers and #OBGYN clinics due to the Big Beautiful Budget elimination of #Medicaid and imminent scrapping, at this years' end after midterm elections, to the #Medicare reimbursements upon which hospitals have also been made to rely. Meanwhile the Private #Insurance (reimbursement-collection & service-denial) Industry has been greenlighted to raise premiums out of reach for a third to half of households while remaining nonresponsible for any such coverage. People are opting not to seek care. Probably all coincidental. #healthcare #medicalNews #healthNews #financialNews #redistribution #plutocracy #plunder #healthcareIsAHumanRight #nvma Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.

10 Real Risks of Travelling Without Visitors Insurance https://www.chronogram.com/resource-guide/10-real-risks-of-travelling-without-visitors-insurance/ #Travel #Insurance #Safety

Europe’s heatwaves threaten insurers’ earnings, rating agency S&P says https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/25/europe-heatwaves-insurance-companies-earnings #Europe #environment #weather #temperature #heat #heatwave #insurance

Washington built a $40 billion reinsurance facility to move ships through Hormuz. It has written zero business: not one dollar placed, not one vessel transited under it (Insurance Business, 17 May). The design explains the number. Cover applies only to vessels sailing under US naval escort, and two ships have ever done that, under the short-lived Project Freedom. A $40 billion facility waiting on a convoy. https://fault-line.io/extra-009/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=extra&utm_content=extra-009 #Hormuz #Shipping #Insurance

After Obamacare Cuts, Hospitals Are Treating More Uninsured Patients https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/business/aca-obamacare-health-insurance.html #Health #Insurance #Hospitals

"Democratic attorneys general and the Justice Department are facing off for the first time in court Tuesday over the fine line between being sick and being 'medically frail,' a distinction that could cost Medicaid recipients their health benefits." https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/28/trump-dems-court-battle-over-medicaid-work-requirements-01013114 #healthcare #medicaid #insurance #disabilities #work #HealthPolicy #courts

"Figuring out who’s offering the best deal on heart surgeries or routine physicals isn’t the most pressing issue for everyday Americans. That hasn’t stopped lawmakers on Capitol Hill from trying to turn that kind of price transparency into their marquee bipartisan health care goal this year." https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/26/health-care-price-transparency-insurers-hospitals-01011835 #healthcare #hospitals #insurance #CostsOfCare #transparency #UScongress #USpol

Fake insurance portals now race your OTP back to the real site before it expires. 9 detections, 15 IOCs. Full analysis + IOCs: https://intel.threadlinqs.com/threat/TL-2026-1679 #ThreatIntel #InsureOTP #Telegram #PhishingKit #OTPRelay #Insurance

My wife is on the phone with #UnitedHealthcare because a surgery she had scheduled for Tuesday next week was denied by the insurance company. The woman who is speaking to her has informed her that there is a nursing support call that is free of charge if my wife needs to discuss the emotions of getting this claim denied and to plan future care. It is such bollocks. USians generally hate our healthcare plans and these companies. Imagine facing surgery and being told that they won't pay for it, but they will pay for a nurse to call you and console you about their decision. Absolutely horrific. Oh, and I pay nearly $30,000 per year for this level of health insurance for my family. #USHealthcare#PrivateInsurance #MedicalCare#medicine#surgery#healthcare#insurance

"As the Trump administration’s January deadline looms for states to enforce new Medicaid work requirements, some state lawmakers are turning the tables by pushing to publicly name the largest companies that have employees enrolled in the government program covering low-income and disabled people." https://kffhealthnews.org/medicaid/medicaid-work-requirement-big-business-employee-enrollees-states-name-shame/ #healthcare #medicaid #insurance #walmart #amazon #tesla #USpol

Car insurance. (I know, dull dull dull, but I am incensed) My small electric car has been insured with Aviva for the last two years. Insurance hike - 35% - no accidents, no tickets, no repairs, lowish mileage. 35% hike on premium. A little shopping around took it back down to 15% below last years insurance. For effectively the same policy. Shop around folks, they assume that auto renewal will enable them to milk us. #Insurance #Aviva #RipOff #ElectricVehicles

AMA it ceases to be 'we are experiencing unprecedented call volumes' when it goes on for months... Now it's just 'we are refusing to increase staffing levels to meet member demand' Sitting on hold #Alberta #insurance

"Health insurance costs on businesses have gotten so high that leadership in both chambers of the state Legislature have charged lawmakers with offering solutions ahead of the legislative session beginning in January. And there’s bipartisan support to drop costs." https://www.texastribune.org/2026/07/06/texas-healthcare-cost-business-legislature/ #healthcare #insurance #business #restaurants #texas #txlege #USpol

E-bike injury payouts top £110m and push up insurance premiums https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c05y9pe5p1jo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss #News #Transport #Insurance

RE: https://apobangpo.space/@bich/116859084570567268 Worth trying, perhaps, but what we really need is single-payer health care. Decouple employment from health insurance. #Health #HealthCare #Medicaid #Insurance #Business

Aflac Life Insurance Japan said that its customer portal site and other systems had been hacked, exposing the data of about 4.38 million customers. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/06/30/aflac-hack-4-million/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #aflac #insurance #cybersecurity #hacking #privacy

"The insurance industry is embracing MAHA, while the doctors’ lobby is pushing against the movement’s leader, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who many physicians see as a danger to public health. The opposing forces could shape Kennedy’s policy decisions on issues ranging from how much doctors earn to treat Medicare patients to how the government regulates medical services." https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/28/health-insurers-maha-rfk-doctors-00977386 #healthcare #HealthPolicy #insurance #physicians #HHS #CMS #medicare #MAHA #USpol