Memories. No, I am not reminiscing about that wonderful movie starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford. Even though I love it- and the song.
Continue reading 13 Years of Health Care Benefits- and Improvements
Open Season is almost over. I know that many of you just can’t decide what’s the best plan- which one will work for you. It’s hard to predict what drugs you’ll need, if you’ll contract a bug, or just be fine.
Continue reading Tomorrow??????
As I stated yesterday, Open Season has started. But, just being able to sign up for a PPACA (Obamacare) Plan is different from being able to choose the best plan.
Continue reading Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum
It’s open season!
Yup, until the 15th of December, we can change our healthcare plan- if we are under the age of 65. PPACA (aka Obamacare, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) actually demands we sign up for the plan by the ides of December.
Continue reading It’s Open Season!!!!
I’m sure you’ve heard that the Senate version of the (creatively named) Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is now going to attack PPACA (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act), affectionately (sic) known as Obamacare. But, if you don’t truly understand the intracacies of the bill, it will be difficult to discern how NOT collecting the tax penalty on those who don’t enroll in a health care plan can be used to reduce the deficit incurred by the behemoth of a bill. (Sorry for all those negatives- but that’s the true concept.)
Continue reading Back Door Man…
It starts. Today is the beginning of open season. Time to choose our health care plan. Or, if you are like me and entitled to Medicare, today is the day to decide to ADD to the mandated service. Because years ago, the government cut Medicare provisions. Now, we need to choose a drug plan and a Medicare Advantage plan to cover all those things that aren’t covered. Or pay through the nose.
Continue reading Hurry Up. Less than 45 days left
More finagling with Obamacare. TheDonald keeps screwing with the insurance companies so that PPACA will die. And, since he is clearly the smartest person in the world (do you think he drinks Dos Equis?)- NOT, he is positive that the world will believe that he didn’t kill it, but it died a natural death. (Hmm. Must be like the Nazis and KKK- that had a torch march on Friday night, threatened the Jews of Charlottesville (without guns while they marched, with guns by the only synagogue in Charlottesvile), and employed vehicular manslaughter (with 19 others maimed and hurt)- were the ones endangered and justified in their actions.)
Continue reading Fake Savings!
I know, I know. You’ve had it up to here about health care reform. But, this is important.
We know that the GOP has failed to repeal Obamacare. We also know that TheDonald will do everything in his power to make it fail- and try to blame that on Obama. Except any failure will be his fault. But, that’s not the point of this post. (I will be posting another discussion on this topic in 3 months, when Open Enrollment starts in.)
Well, what a surprise. Healthcare insurance is back in the news.
But, the problem is really how do we find ways to ensure (not insure) that citizens have adequate access to healthcare. And, then how do we find ways to pay for that.
Continue reading A different 1%
Yesterday, we spoke about how PPACA (Obamacare) has been attenuating the US healthcare cost spiral. Over the past few years, the overall cost growth has dropped dramatically. But, many of us don’t feel the love- because our employers and our insurance companies have been playing the “cost shifting” game. They’ve changed our co-insurance, they’ve raised our deductibles- claiming that when we have ‘skin in the game’, we are more attentive to the costs of our healthcare.
Continue reading Costs slow, but it still bad news
