Key points
Pet owners can buy insurance to cover vet visits for their animals.
Pet insurance has some important differences from human health insurance.
One of the biggest differences is pet insurance doesn’t have to cover pre-existing conditions.
Pet owners buying coverage must make sure they know exactly how pet insurance works — including the ways in which it differs from the health insurance humans get.
While both human and pet insurance coverage are meant to ensure that an illness doesn’t empty out a bank account, the differences between the two types of policies can have a major financial impact.…
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Achieving Prevention and Health, Rather Than More Healthcare
Newswise — If more people have access to health insurance, we have to be sure the death rates of those with certain chronic conditions are decreasing.
This is one of the statements by Gregory Peck, an acute care surgeon and associate professor at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, who will be researching on behalf of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) at the National Institutes of Health.
Funded by NIH grants totaling more than $1 million through a recent two-year award from the New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science (NJ ACTS), a…