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Christian Medical Sharing Health Blog
Our UHSM members chose Christian Medical Share programs for many reasons, including a shared belief in God and caring for one another. Our blog reflects the lifestyles and values of our AWESOME members. If you are a member, we look forward to sharing news and articles and to the discussions that follow. If you’re not a member yet, we invite you to discover more about these types of healthcare programs and what makes UHSM unique.
Healthshare RX: How Prescriptions Work with Health Sharing Programs
According to a National Center for Health Statistics brief released in August of 2019, 69% of Americans used one or more prescription medications in the previous month and 22.4% used five or more in the same time period. The costs of those prescriptions continue to...
3 Reasons to Reconsider Your Health Care During Open Enrollment
Open enrollment is a special time of year that occurs each autumn and provides a short window of opportunity for you to reevaluate your healthcare coverage, make changes to your policy, or buy new policies if you so choose. Before you do anything with your current...
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Will Telehealth Stay Strong After COVID-19?
Telehealth services have soared as the COVID-10 pandemic caused people to quarantine and practice social distancing. Once just a small blip in the world of medical care, telehealth has now exploded and is fast becoming a standard source for medical appointments for...
How to Get the Most from Your Doctor’s Visit
Making good choices in terms of diet, exercise, and lifestyle are key to maintaining optimal health. However, sometimes issues can arise that require the attention of a healthcare professional. Even when nothing is wrong, it’s always recommended that you schedule your...
Awesome Apps to Download
The possibilities are endless when it comes to app downloads. We selected a few apps that you must download today! Project Foodie (available in the Apple App Store) This application consists of guided, how-to recipe videos....
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Growth in Gig Economy Spurs Need for Better Health Care Options
The "gig economy," which is characterized by freelance work and short-term employment contracts, is growing quickly in the US. In 2019, the share of gig workers was 16 percent, marking a 15 increase since 2010, according to ADP Research Institute. Almost one-third of...
5 Ways to Save Money on Prescription Drugs
You or someone in your family may have a condition that requires medication to manage, but prescription medications can be incredibly expensive. In some cases, households are not able to keep up with the costs of the medications required to control their medical...
Healthy and Simple 4th of July Recipes
UHSM knows it is hard to get your whole family to agree on a meal that everyone likes. Here are some simple, healthy meals that will make the whole family happy during the upcoming July 4th weekend. Enjoy these easy but...
Tap into the Power of Giving to Others
It feels good to help another person. Whether it's volunteering at a local food bank, picking up groceries for an elderly neighbor, or giving to a charity, doing some good not only helps others, but it can help you too. That's one of the benefits of being a member of...
4 Key Differences Between Health Share Ministries and Health Insurance
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed, in part, to ensure that Americans with pre-existing conditions would be able to obtain some form of healthcare coverage, and statistics show that it has worked...to a degree. However, while more Americans may have insurance,...
4 Signs a Health Share Program Is Right for Your Family
Health insurance plans are available to cover medical expenses, but these plans can be very expensive and the cost continues to increase. In fact, health insurance costs have surged by 740 percent since 1984, according to data assessed from the Bureau of Labor...
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What to Expect for Your Telehealth Visit
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on how we interact with others, including our health care providers. While some medical facilities have closed their doors altogether in an effort to curb the spread, others are providing telehealth services that...
Help Flatten the COVID-19 Curve with Telehealth Services
The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting stay-at-home mandates across the country make a traditional office visit to your doctor either out of the question or, at the least, not something you want to do if you can avoid it. As a person of faith, you are likely concerned...
Working with Cornbread Hustle — Giving Back
UHSM has partnered with Cornbread Hustle and Cheri Garcia to support local churches in the Dallas Area The #HopeDealer crew partnered with Pastor Chris Simmons of Cornerstone Baptist Church to aid the homeless during this time. Many shelters have shut down due to...
Finding Help During the COVID-19 Crisis
Tips to stay safe, help yourself, and ways companies are giving back Here are a few ideas of things you can do to support yourself and others during the current global crisis of COVID-19. Take breaks from watching, reading, or listening to news stories, including...
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Supporting Mental & Physical Youth Health Through The Pure Game
UHSM has partnered with ThePureGame.org, a character education program that leverages sports — specifically soccer — to develop positive youth engagement. Soccer promotes inclusive team play and takes away the extremely competitive win at all cost mentality....
Protecting Yourself & Your Family from COVID-19
The hype and attention paid to the Coronavirus can make it difficult to know what to do and who to trust when it comes to protecting yourself and your family from COVID-19. Luckily, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has a ton of good information and...
Coronavirus FAQs – What You Need to Know
Learning about the Coronavirus, how it spreads, and what we can do to protect ourselves is an important step to curbing this outbreak. There is a lot of good information our there via official sources, as well as a lot of misinformation and hysteria via questionable...
Calling all Travelers
Fight off Jet Lag, Stay Healthy when Traveling with My Flight Pack UHSM has partnered with My Flight Pack to help our members travel healthy. Traveling can come with a lot of stress on your overall health. Anytime you cross one or more time zones, your body is...
The True Cost of Unaffordable Healthcare
America’s Health Care Affordability Crisis is Growing, Lives are on the Line, & We Have to Help One Another As Christians, we commit to “Love thy Neighbor”, and expressing that by choosing the UHSM Christian health share ministry is a signal to all that...
Give the Gift of Sleep Health this Holiday Season
The National Sleep Foundation reports that 45% of Americans have poor sleep at least once a week and the CDC studies show that 1 in 3 adults don't get enough sleep on a regular basis. So a lot of us are a little tired, what's the big deal? Turns out this is a HUGE...
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Healthcare News: How Member-to-Member Medical Cost Sharing Programs Work
Wondering how member-to-member health sharing works? We'll explain. To start, Health Sharing is NOT Insurance. These programs are member-based fellowships where faithful people exercise their right to take charge of their own healthcare. In health sharing, monthly...
Healthcare News: Instant Cancer Diagnosis With One Blood Test
Cancer diagnoses can be extremely difficult. For most cancers, doctors have to look for symptoms. If enough symptoms present themselves then the next step is usually imaging technology and then surgery into potential cancerous tissues. The dilemma is that cancer can...
Eating A High-Quality, Low-Carb Diet May Help Us Stave Off Weight Gain For Longer
“The largest and longest feeding study to test the ‘carbohydrate-insulin model'” concludes that a lower carb intake burns more calories, which may help people maintain weight loss over a longer period of time. Eating a high-quality, low-carb diet may help us stave off...
A Bill To Fight The Opioid Crisis Passes The House
In an atmosphere of contentious political in-fighting, a bill to fight the growing opioid epidemic was passed by the house in September. The bipartisan bill passed with an almost unanimous vote of 393-8. The bill will be sent to the Senate where it should pass easily...
Leaving For The Holidays? Make Sure Your Home Is Safe While You’re Gone
Many of us hit the road during the holidays. Whether we visit family or head out for a relaxing vacation, we leave our house unattended. A vacant house attracts temptation. Burglaries increase during the holiday season because of empty houses and package delivery. Our...
“A cheerful heart does good like medicine,
but a broken spirit makes one sick.”
—Proverbs 17:22
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