Kevin Knauss: Health, History, Travel, Insurance
You don’t have to hike the entire length of the Pacific Crest Trail to enjoy the high Sierra beauty it offers. A moderate hike starts right off of highway 88 at the Carson Pass and takes you through a variety of ecosystems. The round trip up to Showers Lake is approximately 10 miles and can […]
After an individual or family has been approved for a tax credit subsidy to lower their monthly health insurance premium Covered California gives them ninety days to verify their income. If the consumer doesn’t submit proof of income that Covered California accepts the applicant will either be reduced to Medi-Cal or have their tax credit […]
Sometimes getting your health insurance company to cover necessary medical expenses is like playing a big game without knowing the rules. The large professional insurance companies know all the rules and the members are just learning how to play the game. But every game has a rule book and for health insurance it can be […]
Large ugly street side utility boxes are a necessary evil for our automobile-centered communities. They control stop lights, cross walk signals and attract graffiti and posters like ants to sugar. The City of Auburn, CA has moved to embrace the refrigerator size utility boxes by having local artists paint micro murals on them. The results […]
The South Yuba Trail beginning at Edwards Crossing outside of Nevada City is a popular hiking and swimming destination. To the west of the Edwards Crossing Bridge, built in 1903, is a short hike to the Spring Creek Water which is nice when the water is flowing. On the south side of the South Yuba […]
Covered California has made great strides in reducing consumer telephone wait times and assisting individuals and families with health plan enrollments. What has bubbled to the surface is the failure of the Help Desk to resolve consumer enrollment problems ostensibly created by Covered California’s CalHEERS software. While there is no published data on the length […]
The North Fork of The Middle Fork trail is a short little hike right off Mosquito Ridge Road. It is so named because it parallels the North Fork of the Middle Fork of the American River. Because the Placer County Water Agency maintains a dam up-stream this part of the river should have flowing water virtually […]
Hidden within every health plan sold through Covered California is a fee to fund their operation. This per member per month (pmpm) fee applies to both individual and family plans, small group plans sold through the exchange and adult dental plans if they are ever offered. These fees, paid by the health plans and insurance […]
The 13 week home delivery rate was $197.34. In May it jumped to $215.54. In November it jumped again to $229.84. That is a 14% rate increase in less than a year. I really don’t think the Sacrament Bee wants to produce a physical newspaper. As is their method of operation, the publisher’s give no reason for the increases but they have their staff beg people to keep subscribing to the newspaper to support journalism in Sacramento. The Bee does some good investigational journalism. Perhaps someone on staff needs to investigate the rapid rise in subscription rates and where the money is going. It isn’t going into more local reporting. There are not 14% more stories in the Bee since the beginning of the year.
The motivation for the hike into the burn zone of the 2014 King fire in El Dorado County was to hunt for morel mushrooms. My son, who enjoys mushroom hunting, had read morels flourish after forest fires. While we found no morels, we were able to experience the desolation and destruction by one of El […]
