Smoking is a habit that has significant repercussions on various aspects of health and well-being. One of the critical areas where smoking plays a detrimental role is in obtaining life insurance. Life ...

Policy reforms that expand insurance coverage may play a supporting role in discouraging smoking among adults living with mental health and/or substance use disorders. Despite an overall decline in ...

I was particularly intrigued when California opted out of the option to have smoker and non-smoker rates for health insurance as allowed by the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare). The law allows the ...

Although the Affordable Care Act (ACA) eliminated some of the barriers to obtaining health insurance coverage, not all Americans have access to affordable coverage. Low-income smokers in particular ...

Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, Americans looking to buy health insurance no longer have to answer questions about whether they’ve suffered diabetes, cancer or heart problems. Do you have a ...

Objective: To investigate the costs and benefits of covering smoking cessation interventions from insurers' and employers' perspectives. Study Design: A Monte Carlo model was used to simulate smoking ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Surveys show about 20 percent of adults in Iowa smoke regularly, but but a much smaller percentage acknowledged their habit when signing up for insurance with federally ...

Insurancewide.com - Facts and Advice: No Smoking Day on March 11 gave some the opportunity to give up the habit, but any day can be the perfect day to start a clean healthy life and save money too: ...

LANSING — Michigan's restaurants and bars will remain free to allow smoking as efforts to enact a mandatory ban fizzled in the Legislature. Lawmakers also failed to find a compromise on health ...