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- AP: Why insurance denies your claim, but pays your neighbor's
Tom Murphy, Associated Press, Sept 8, 2016 Glaring differences in insurance coverage persist for amputees, children with autism and others in need of certain expensive treatments even after the Affordable Care Act set new standards as part of its push to expand and improve coverage, and despite efforts by states to mandate coverage for some treatments. These differences don't develop simply because some people pay more for better coverage. Instead, they stem from random factors like what state someone lives in or who happens to provide their coverage — and often people can do nothing about it. The federal health care law largely leaves decisions on what actually gets covered up to states or employers who provide insurance for their workers.
- Consumer Reports - Is whole life insurance right for you?
Is whole life insurance right for you? Follow our advice to assess this most misunderstood coverage Consumer Reports, April 06, 2015
- How the Fall of NC Mutual Hurt Black America
Henry McCoy, the Assembly, January 20, 2022
Durham was once called “the Capital of the Black Middle Class” and the “City on the Hill for Blacks.” It was home to more Black millionaires per capita than any other place in America. And it was headquarters to the world’s largest Black-owned and -operated business: North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company.
But in December of 2018, NC Mutual, which once played a critical role in providing capital to support the hopes and dreams of African-Americans across the country, quietly entered into receivership with the North Carolina Department of Insurance. Receivership, also known as rehabilitation, is similar to bankruptcy.
- Joseph M. Belth website
"Joseph M. Belth, Ph.D., is professor emeritus of insurance in the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, author of Life Insurance: A Consumer's Handbook, author of several other books and numerous journal articles, and a blogger (www.josephmbelth.com). He founded The Insurance Forum, an independent monthly periodical, and was its editor for its entire 40 years--from January 1974 through December 2013." From his bio at http://www.josephmbelth.com/p/about-author.html
- The Insurance Forum
"The Insurance Forum was a monthly periodical directed at persons with a professional interest in insurance. During its 40-year history from its inception at the beginning of 1974, through its termination at the end of 2013, it provided objective information and incisive analysis of important insurance topics. Our newsletter was completely independent. To make sure it stayed that way, we did not accept advertising. We were not indebted to—nor did we represent—any company, industry group, or special interest of any sort. In 2015, Joseph M. Belth, the editor of The Insurance Forum for its entire 40 years of publication, published a 379-page cloth bound book entitled The Insurance Forum: A Memoir. See our memoir page for more information. "Belth started a blog subsequent to the termination of the newsletter. Please visit it at josephmbelth.com."