about 2 days ago - No comments
(That’s not a typo – it’s yours truly trying to be “hip”) Maybe she just can’t help it, but HHS Secretary Shecantbeserious just doesn’t quite “get” why those of us who oppose the train-wreck that is ObamaCare© might take some slight umbrage at this: “So, we have a lot of reeducation to do” [emphasis added] [...]
about 3 months ago - 5 comments
Robin Hood robbed from the rich and gave to the poor. At least that is the story line. The powers that be in Massachusetts have their own version, a bit more Russell Crowe and a bit less Kevin Costner. In this version, “wealthy” hospitals will be required to “share” their wealth by “contributing” to a [...]
about 3 months ago - 1 comment
Obamacare (Patient Protection and Unaffordable Health Care Act) has a new challenger from the torch and pitchfork crowd. The NFIB (National Federation of Independent Business) has joined a suit along with 20 states to challenge the constitutionality of Obamacare. At one time NFIB was a supporter of the change you won’t believe, but they backed [...]
about 3 months ago - 9 comments
Churchill was right. Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. Perhaps Massachusetts Gov. Duval Patrick should spend some time studying one of Nixon’s failures. NOT LONG AFTER President Nixon took the unprecedented step of imposing peacetime wage and price controls, the American people learned a basic economic lesson: Artificial controls don’t [...]
about 3 months ago - 4 comments
I have a copy of a letter dated April 19 in which HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius asks employers and insurance companies to ignore what the new health care reform law actually says, as regards extended dependent coverage. Specifically, she asks employers and insurance companies to “maintain coverage for young adults who could be dis-enrolled in [...]
about 4 months ago - 2 comments
Why is this not surprising? “The economic report released last week by Health and Human Services, which indicated that President Barack Obama’s health care “reform” law would actually increase the cost of health care and impose higher costs on consumers, had been submitted to the office of HHS Secretary Kathleen [Shecantbeserious] more than a week [...]
about 4 months ago - 2 comments
Even though we have been focusing on the battle of rates in Massachusetts, there is a similar war going on on Maine between the DOI and Anthem Blue Cross. While many know Maine for their lobsters, that tiny state is also the home of high health insurance rates. It has nothing to do with the [...]
about 4 months ago - 10 comments
A consumer group filed a lawsuit on March 1, 2010 against Anthem Blue Cross as reported by the San Francisco Chronicle. The suit accuses the insurer of raising rates to force members into policies with higher deductibles and lower benefits. What if a person is involved in an accident uses his Anthem Blue Cross insurance [...]
about 4 months ago - 5 comments
Got a pre-existing medical condition? Having trouble paying your risk pool premiums? Too bad. Obamacare doesn’t want you. Phase I of Obamacare is slated to kick in by July of this year with a national risk pool for those who have been denied health insurance in the individual major medical market. Fulfilling a campaign pledge [...]
about 4 months ago - 5 comments
The federal health-care reform law includes a number of insurance market reforms intended to protect consumers. Among them, it requires health insurers to submit data on how much money they spend on care versus profits, advertising, etc. (In case you’re taking notes, the term for this is the “medical loss ratio.”) The new law says that [...]
HHS Secretary Sebelius seems to be “hailing” the chief in her comments on proposed rate increases by Anthem Blue Cross.
about 5 months ago
It depends on your insurance plan, when I had Anthem it did
about 5 months ago
Better in what way?
If you are looking at cost, compare the premiums costs and out of pocket costs (deductibles, copays and out of pocket costs).
If you are looking at care, compare the benefits each provides, whether the doctors you already use are preferred providers and if the providers that you plan to use for your pregnancy (OB and hospital) are conveniently located.
about 5 months ago
They are state regulated, not any of the fed's business. Of course not Congress' business to ask about Toyota's recalls- that's the executive branch responsibility or for Congress to investigate pro baseball– none of their business.
about 5 months ago
I agree with Jimmbbo's answer, I'm tired of Obama's evasive answers and constant reiteration of talking points, it's all meaningless dribble.
about 5 months ago
If you've had any disease or illness, it is considered preexisting. You have to go without treatment for 3 years before they will cover it. The biggies are Cancer, HIV/AIDS and any other potential life threatening illness that the insurance companies may have to pay some money for. But after all. we don't want that money wasted on caring for the sick. Much better if it goes to the top Executives and CEO's.
about 4 months ago
You decide what you really want. Job or your own boss. Marriage will have to wait if you want to run your own business. There will be so one waiting when you get what you want
about 4 months ago
You pose 2 separate questions.
1 – Did you really underpay? We cant answer that on this board because we do not know the facts.
2 – Assuming you did underpay, they can force you to pay it but will probably write it off or discount it for that small sum.
about 4 months ago
Our science savvy media have proven — based on an interview with Phil Jones about the East Anglia climate data — that it is caused by global warming.
about 4 months ago
hmmm….one could also make the argument that Bush purposely sabotaged the housing market so that he could get that home in Dallas for about 1/2 the original 2005 value.
Do you really want to go there?