In the 2011 Insurance Shopping Study, American Family (a mutual company) was the top ranked insurer.
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The American Association for Long-Term Care Insurance found in a study that applicants for LTC insurance who were in good health (typically, younger applicants) qualified for discounts of up to 20% a year.
The study used insurance claims data and couldn't tell when patients got CT scans of multiple parts of the body at the same time, a common occurrence.
The executives also said that Avandia's safety has been reaffirmed by a large study of health insurance databases.
He quotes a study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety which suggests there is on average a 40% decrease in all accidents and a 90% drop in fatal ones when a traffic intersection is replaced by a roundabout.
The study, which examined insurance records for more than 2, 500 diabetics between February 2005 and December 2008, found that patients hospitalized with pancreatitis were twice as likely to be taking one of these drugs, as opposed to a control group of Type 2 diabetics who did not have pancreatitis.
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According to a 2008 study by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 9 percent of checking accounts incur 84 percent of overdraft fees.
The European Commission has called to suspend talks on new legislation covering the insurance industry so it can regroup and study the impact of rules proposed by EU member states.
According to a new study unveiled by the Unum insurance company at the Protect 2011 symposium titled Financial Security for Working Americans: An Economic Analysis of Insurance Products in Workplace Benefits Programs, Americans at all income levels play fast and loose with their ability to support themselves over the long term.
That's according to LIMRA, an insurance industry research outfit, which based its study on a survey of 3, 766 households.
State Rep. Richard Smith, head of the insurance committee in the Georgia House, says state law requires any mandate on insurance companies to go through a special committee to study the impact.
So I think that is a pretty clear assessment from a nonpartisan group as opposed to a study that was funded by the health insurance industry -- but a pretty clear assessment from a nonpartisan group about what impact the Affordable Care Act is going to have on the budgets of families all across the country.
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Most Americans saw their insurance bills jump this year, according to a new study from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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"That was actually the predominant problem in patients in our study -- 78 percent of them had health insurance, but many of them were bankrupted anyway because there were gaps in their coverage like co-payments and deductibles and uncovered services, " says Woolhandler.
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The Kaiser Family Foundation just released a new study showing that the average annual premium for family health insurance coverage jumped about 9% this year, a much steeper rise than in previous years.
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Her study showed the only group that consistently got hearing aids had insurance that paid for them in full.
First of all, every study has shown that Medicare has lower administrative costs than private insurance does, which is why seniors are generally pretty happy with it.
More than 88 million Americans could be forced out of their current private insurance plans and into the government-run plan, according to a study by the Lewin Group.
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According to a study from Progressive, 40% of consumers purchase the supplemental insurance offered by rental companies either every time or some of the times they rent vehicles.
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The study, sponsored by the Allstate Foundation, an arm of Allstate Insurance, interviewed 1, 025 teens age 14-18 years old, from February 5-15 this year.
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And I'm wondering how much relates to possibly the ability for college graduates to have jobs that have access to better health care, or even just health insurance in general, if there's any correlation there or if the study followed that.
In 2006 two economists, Dhaval Dave and Robert Kaestner, completed a study in which they looked at a group of Americans who had no insurance but then turned 65 and qualified for Medicare.
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For his study, Mr. Schwarcz collected policies from the top-10-selling insurance groups in six states: North Dakota, South Dakota, Pennsylvania, Illinois, California and Nevada.
Several years ago, a former colleague, Karen Pollitz (a researcher at the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute) and others, did a study for the Kaiser Family Foundation where they constructed seven hypothetical applicants for individual insurance coverage in 8 insurance markets across the country.
The RAND study, which followed 2, 750 families who were randomized into different kinds of insurance where out of pocket costs varied, did not specifically pose the question of whether having health insurance makes you healthy.
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Charles Symington of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America is opposed to the federal plan and questions the figures in the study.
Dr Cook-Deegan was one of the authors of a study that showed a significant risk of adverse selection in the market for long-term-care insurance (the sort bought by the young in order to ensure they have nursing care when they become old and infirm).
In fact, a 2005 study by Harvard University showed that 75% of medically-related bankruptcies occur for people who have health insurance, i.e. the underinsured.
The study, which looked at 385 metropolitan statistical areas, said nearly two in five metropolitan areas had one insurance company with a combined market share of 50 percent or more among health maintenance organization (HMO), point-of-service (POS) and preferred provider organization (PPO) plans.
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