These are largely ignored in industrial agriculture, with negative impacts in environmental, community, and individual health.
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By any reasonable measure, the individual health insurance market has failed to serve its constituents.
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In 1999, the average individual health insurance plan cost 11 percent of per-capita income.
Worse, workers not covered under a company-sponsored health plan still must navigate the treacherous individual health insurance market.
Individual health care accounts for routine stuff, government pays the bills for any chronic or catastrophic care needed.
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Every one of those states destroyed their individual health insurance market, as premiums exploded and insurers stopped offering coverage.
During the 1990s eight states passed legislation imposing guaranteed issue and community rating on the individual health insurance market.
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This is a vice that is costing modern society dearly as individual health declines and national healthcare costs increase.
It happens with individual health insurance policies, where people apply for insurance on their own, not through their employers.
About 10% of applicants for individual health insurance are rejected outright and another 20% can't qualify for standard-price policies.
Searching for Medicaid or Medicare options, or the right individual health insurance plan?
Imagine a future where concerns about sustainability and the environment have given way to worries about individual health and wellbeing.
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The expansion of individual health policies will put pressure on states to overhaul regulations that add enormously to the cost of insurance.
The idea of not punishing people who survived cancer or suffer from diabetes by denying them individual health insurance is immensely popular.
That leads to another approach: individual health-savings accounts that bypass insurance altogether.
The Society of Actuaries just released a study estimating that premiums on individual health plans will jump 32% over the next three years.
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It guarantees them, and those with lapsing COBRA, access to individual health insurance, or a new employer's group coverage, with few pre-existing-condition exclusions.
Komen for the Cure, American Academy of Family Physicians, American College of Radiology, and even individual health care institutions.
Law's company has sold 500 of the Cybertecture Mirrors and is now developing a chair that recognizes the user and records individual health data.
Good data on the individual health-care market are fragmented at best.
The individual health risk from radiation exposure at Fukushima is very small, he contends, no higher than the risk of death from violent crime in Japan.
In many U.S. states like Wyoming, it is virtually impossible for women to purchase individual health-insurance policies that will pay for the costs of having a baby.
It would also mean encouraging a switch from employer-provided health care to personal health insurance, by giving tax breaks to those who take out individual health policies.
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In the case of health insurance in Massachusetts, most people have not opted out of this choice, in part because that state has an individual health insurance mandate.
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In 2009 by almost a two to one margin consumers who could have purchased an individual health insurance policy decided that it was a better deal to go without it.
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This is especially true when it comes to the new accountability-based wellness programs that offer major financial incentives to motivate employee participation, and then personalized individual health coaching to sustain it.
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Its best-known feature is its overreaching individual health-care mandate.
The insurance industry, in failing to make sure that "innocent" patients with pre-existing conditions can get affordable individual health insurance on the open market, has in a way brought reform upon itself.
According to the CBO, Obamacare will increase the average premiums in the individual health insurance market by 10 to 13 percent in 2016 compared with what those premiums would have been without the law.
Assuming that the median income of individual health-insurance buyers was roughly the same as the median income of those covered by employer-based plans, health-insurance premiums for individual-insurance buyers gobbled between 6% and 12% of after-tax household income.
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