Seven Summer Safety Tips for Your Kids
Kids love summer, but without school, they have less supervision. The National Safe Kids Campaign estimates one in four kids under age 15 need medical care every year – almost half of those problems happen during the summer time. A whopping 42 percent of emergency room trips of children’s injuries are recorded from May through [...]
Safe Kids Awareness Day
Safe Kids USA is promoting child safety awareness on May 18, but keeping children safe takes 365 days of the year. And, it involves issues both seen and unseen. Give these six issues some thought and take advantage of the free guides at http://www.safekids.org/safety-basics/ to help you manage preventable injuries from things like heat stress, [...]
Four Ways to Live in a Safer Home
When you think of home safety, what comes to mind? Since there are about 21 million trips to emergency rooms following home accidents every year in our country, we must be missing something. The most common injuries involve falls, poisoning, fires, choking and drowning. With that in mind, let’s look at what you can do [...]
How to Combat More Stress-related Accidents
You’ve probably heard a lot about how life has become more stressful in recent decades and how that’s reflected by increased chronic illness, but can stress make you accident prone? Yes, the stress of working longer hours, dealing with increased violence, etc., has been linked to an increase in accidents by research. Did you know [...]
An Accident You Never Think about Is Closer than You’d Like
You may have never even thought about accident insurance, but you may want to check out the coverage and premiums before your morning coffee. Yes, something as common as stopping for coffee can and does lead to painful accidents. I’m blogging about how common the risk of accidents really is for one reason. If your [...]
What Can Be Prevented about Accidents?
If we saw them coming, we would get out of the way, right? While we can’t predict when an accident will strike, there’s lots of evidence to help us predict what we’ll pay for one. And, there’s something you can do about that. You may think I’m talking about health insurance, but with today’s premiums, [...]
What to Do If Your Health Insurance Hates E.R. Bills
You’ve probably heard clichés like “accidents happen” all of your life. These sayings are so overused, they’ve lost their significance. This one, however, has a way of living up to its original meaning. And, health insurance policy language is designed to reduce coverage for this most costly form of health care. Here’s why people are [...]
Does Warm Weather Mean More Accidents?
If you can’t wait to get on your bike, it might for you. Over six million motorcycles are registered in the US. When you include passengers and off road bikes that don’t need to be licensed, there may be a lot more riders. Those riders can protect themselves somewhat with helmets, goggles, and protective clothing, [...]
When Accidents Aren’t Funny
On TV, accidents may be funny. In cartoons, they result in laughs, but that’s because no one gets an E.R. bill there. Those bills just aren’t funny. Here’s a sample of what getting treatment for an accident can cost. Average Emergency Room Charges One survey found that people between the ages of 45 and 64 [...]
Which Common Injuries Need a Doctor’s Opinion
If you have health insurance with a deductible, you may be tempted to wait after an injury and see if you notice any problems before you pay to have a doctor check it out. In the case of head injuries, that’s rarely a good idea because concussions are more common than you may realize. Most [...]
