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Healthcare Rebates?

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So, here it comes- or not.  The PPACA (Obamacare) stipulates that health care insurers are required to justify their health care premiums.  And, should they spend less than 80% of those premiums on benefits (this is called the medical loss ratio ) for small companies and individuals or 85% of  large company insurance costs on benefits, they are “legally overcharging” these subscribers.

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Times a’wasting- and we are the ones who will be hosed

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This looks like it’s going to be a problem.  We have a deadline of 1 January 2014 and we are nowhere close to meeting this goal.  To make matters worse, that is not really the due date, but the drop-dead date, since the states will have to connect by the Fall of 2013 to insure this required start date.  What am I talking about?  The insurance exchanges (part of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act-PPACA [Obamacare] )that are to be operational in each state.  And, that means that the Federal exchange that coordinates these state systems must also be operational.

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Doc- is that all you’re gonna do?

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What do Rafeal Soriano (New York Yankees), Brett Favre (Minnesota Vikings), and Matthew Stafford (Detroit Lions) have in common?  They all rely (or have relied)  on the services of a renowned orthopaedic and sports physician, Dr. James Andrews, from Gulf Breeze Florida. His clinic, The Andrews Institute, founded in concert with Baptist Health Care,  works with students and professionals, as well as effects  research and provides education to patients and physicians. His newest research is bound to throw sports professionals for a loop- and probably many of us ‘regular’ folks, as well. Continue reading Doc- is that all you’re gonna do?

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Coming soon- to your mailbox (US Postal or eMail)

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You know that despite all the hoopla, lawsuits, demonstrations, whatever, most people have already begun to benefit from the Health Insurance Reform (Patient Protection &Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590) and the Health Care & Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010 (H.R. 4872) passed in 2009.  It would have been nice to have a real health reform bill, but given the first sentence, it’s not surprising that the half-a-loaf logic obtained.

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