Thursday, October 30, 2014

Health, Dental and Vision Insurance - How To Find An Affordable Solution

Are you in need of health insurance coverage? Are you in need of health dental vision insurance for yourself alone or do you need a plan for your entire family? The reason I'm asking this is because there are affordable insurance plans available to you that you may not be aware of. Most of the time you'll just need to do an in depth search. You may also want to consider cutting your coverage back in order to make your policy more affordable. What this means is to reduce the amount of coverage on individual types of protection down to state minimum. You could reduce your ambulance coverage from $2,000 down to $1,000.

Another thing that you should consider is buying a discount dental plan instead of a traditional for your health dental vision insurance. Discount dental plans are not health insurance plans. They offer generous discounts on routine dental care for visiting dentists within their network. These dentists are no different than any other professional that you may have seen in the past. These dentists have agreed to accept less for their work in order to be paid in full for their services at the time of their appointment. It really is a winning scenario for both the dentist and the patient.

There are discount plan options that may also include big discounts on vision, pharmacy, chiropractic services and more. You can use your discount card at major pharmacies and other major professionals.

Discount health plans are similar to discount dental where you visit a select doctor and receive a discount for paying cash in full. The main drawback with this type of plan for some people is that you must have decent credit because most companies will run a credit check on you. Discount dental, vision, etc does NOT require a credit check.

If you're in need of health dental vision insurance protection you should start off by getting a very affordable discount dental plan. This will take care of many of your immediate needs and save you a lot of money over time. After doing this then you can find an affordable health plan.

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Common Health Concerns With Electronic Cigarettes

From the day e-cigarettes were first introduced to the U.S. market in 2007 there have been lots of health concerns raised over these devices. Many of these initial concerns were clearly inspired simply by the fact e-cigarettes look like traditional cigarettes and seek to mimic their functionality (albeit in a safe manner). These concerns were further exacerbated by the fact e-cigarettes can be purchased easily and without any age restrictions. Seeing young people under the age of 18 able to purchase and use devices which resemble electronic cigarettes was enough to create a sustained public outcry over e-cigarettes. Of course, the high volume of these health concerns doesn't in any way mean these concerns are actually valid.

 The Ambiguity of E-Cigarette Health Concerns

 It should be obvious from a quick look at the history of hysteria over e-cigarettes that most of the public's health concerns over these devices aren't based in any sort of scientific study or rigorously achieved statistics. Instead the concerns over these cigarettes are of the "guilt by association" variety. If they look like cigarettes and if they act like cigarettes than they must be just as unhealthy as cigarettes.

 Except, this isn't true. E-cigarettes might look like cigarettes but they don't really act like cigarettes. They don't produce smoke, they produce vapors. They don't work by combusting dry matter, they work by vaporizing liquids. They may look like cigarettes and their manufacturers may have worked hard to make sure their vapors bore an aesthetic resemblance to cigarette smoke, but those appearances are deceiving.

 Any ambiguous health concerns which revolve around superficial associations need to be immediately disregarded.

 Getting Specific Over E-Cigarette Health Concerns

 If you actually look at the specifics of what e-cigarettes are and what they provide you will find a few items to feel concerned over. People who have studied these devices feel concerned about the fact no one knows what happens over the long term when you inhale nicotine vapors. Some experts worry about leaking liquid nicotine cartridges. Others are concerned about the potentially dangerous chemicals included in these cartridges. Plenty of people worry that it's easier to smoke too many e-cigarettes because they aren't measured in the same manner as traditional cigarettes. Still others feel concerned over the nicotine content of these cartridges and whether they are accurately labelled.

 These are all valid health concerns revolving around e-cigarettes and they all have one thing in common- they're very specific! These valid concerns revolve around factual elements of e-cigarettes which we're all aware of and which have been made public (either by companies themselves or by credible investigative organizations like the FDA).

 But What About the Children?

 It should be clear by now the only way to consider a health concern over e-cigarettes credible is if it is very specific related to actual data or obvious elements specific to these devices.

 Unfortunately the majority of cries over the potential health dangers of e-cigarettes revolves around ambiguous worries about them causing essentially the same health problems as cigarettes despite working from an entirely different set of mechanisms. If you look at these examples of public outcry long enough you see a common thread between them, and that's the concern over the fact children are able to purchase electronic cigarettes.
 Because they don't use tobacco there are no laws surrounding e-cigarettes and they aren't regulated. There are no age restrictions for buying them and they can be purchased easily online by anyone who wants to get a set or some cartridges.

 While concerns over children using e-cigarettes is certainly well founded, that doesn't mean we should accept ambiguous and poorly defined fears and let them cloud our opinions over these devices.