180,000 Customers Left Without Health Insurance Coverage
First my bank failed…now my health insurance company pulls out of the state!?
This morning at 8:38am CST, Bruce Jaspen (2009) of the Chicago Tribune announced that Unicare Health Plans, the nation’s largest health insurance company and the largest health insurance carrier in Texas, will withdraw its service to all 180,000 Texas customers by the end of the year, encouraging all current customers to transfer service to Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) of Texas. Though Wellpoint Inc., parent of Unicare, claims their service is comparable to those offered by BCBS of Texas, they do not guarantee premiums, services, doctors provided in network, or quality of customer service to be the same as what is currently offered by Unicare.
No matter which news station you watch, print you read, or radio personality to which you listen; the state of the economy is a major topic of discussion. After a year of stocks falling, businesses closing, and banks failing; we now see that health insurance companies are not immune to the changing economics of America.
So what does this mean for 180,000 of our Texas health insurance neighbors?
The specifics are not mentioned, but it can be assumed that these ex-Unicare customers will be looking for new affordable health insurance in Texas. Along with speculation concerning prices and quality of service offered by other health services, Unicare Health leaves other questions unanswered for those soon to be without coverage. For example, will diagnoses made while insured under Unicare be classified as pre-existing conditions when these 180,000 soon-to-be uninsured apply with another company, leaving them to pay higher premiums?
Who can be trusted in this process?
After feeling abandoned by the health insurance company we pay in order to feel secure, who can you turn to in order to find the answers to these questions and others that come up along the way? How can you know which health care plan is best for your current circumstance, especially with all the obvious changes in health care coverage?
There is an answer!
Contact a licensed Dallas health insurance expert at Custom Health Plans at 877-749-2241 or locally for those in the Dallas/Ft Worth area at 469-361-4032, or go to the website at www.customhealthplans.com
With Custom Health Plans, you will have the support of an expert to teach and guide you through each step of the process with no extra cost to you. Utilizing a personal representative allows you to take charge of your health care needs. Having a voice in the process of getting health insurance is of primary importance, especially when your future health care needs are now a non-priority of your current health care provider, like the 180,000 Texans left to fend for themselves by Unicare Health.
Reference:
Jaspen, B. (2009, October 28). Unicare health plans business to be pulled from the Illinois market. Chicago Tribune. Retreived from http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-biz-unicare-illinois-oct28,0,3105864.story
I just wanted to thank you very much for this informative article. I have already bookmarked your site, when I have more free time I am going to have to do some further reading. Well back to my dreaming of Panama or back to the books – I wonder which one is going to win out.
Hiya – I stumbled on this oage by mistake. I was looking in Google for Accounting software that I had already purchased when I came upon your site, I must say your site is really informative, I just love the theme, its amazing!. I don’t have the time today to fully read your site but I bookmarked it and also signed up for your RSS feeds. I will be back in a day or two. thanks for a nice site.
Very outstanding website.
The information here is really useful.
I will invite my friends.
Cheers
I somehow dont agree with a few things, but its great anyways.
I normally jump all over the web because I have the tendancy to read a lot (which isn’t always a great idea because the majority of sites just copy from each other) but I have to say that yours contains some genuine substance! Thanks for stopping the trend of just being another copycat site!
Thanks for the thumbs up. We are grateful and appreciate your interest in our Blog. We will try as hard as possible to continue to provide fresh and informative information that is helpful and insightful.
I hope that you subscribe and share.
Ric Monello
President
The business brokerages network will give you access to some big pool of people who’ve the information about businesses for sale and buyers or investors looking for any organization venture. By producing good use in the info you’ve, you might be cutting a provide and make a handsome profit out of the transactions.
Hey may I quote some of the information found in this entry if I provide a link back to your site?
Blair,
Sure, as long as it’s attributed with a link, feel free. Thanks!