Kevin Knauss: Health, History, Travel, Insurance
Posts related to coverage, prescription medications, benefits and providers under health insurance plans.
While some industry analysts point a finger at new guarantee issue rules for individual plans as a reason UHC and Aetna are vacating California, both are still retaining their lines of employer group business which IS ALL GUARANTEE ISSUE. It is rather disheartening that UHC and Aetna have taken such a cynical profit driven approach to the individual market in California and in other states.
At some point, we finally work our way to the inevitable conclusion that a baby boy, girl or intersex individual is born with inalienable human rights which supersede any parental control. The cost of advocating for the human right to be left intact is the ostracism and ridicule from family, friends and strangers. Every intactivist marching on Sunday had realized the benefit of advocating for genital autonomy was greater than the social cost incurred.
One of the spillover effects from the Affordable Care Act is that the insurance companies are streamlining not only their health insurance plans but their ancillary insurance products like dental and vision. Anthem Blue Cross has just released new dental and vision plans that are straight forward and easy to understand.
It was a quick sharing of an article to Facebook on how Mormon missionaries will be using social media in their out reach efforts that started the conversation. I prefaced the news story with “First we had to worry about perverts targeting our children on the Internet, now it’s the Mormon Church.” That prompted […]
Part of Covered California’s mission is to improve health care quality and lower costs. In an attempt to meet these goals they announced a partnership with the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Foundation’s Choosing Wisely initiative. The Choosing Wisely initiative seeks to encourage better dialog between patients and physicians to reduce duplicative tests based on evidence when charting the most effective course of treatment.
The new Instagram video sharing app is nothing to get excited about. It has some real shortcomings that don’t have simple solutions. Instagram photos are interesting 20% of the time. I suspect the videos, like the majority of photos, will either be horribly mundane and a waste of storage or be hyper-produced which looses the whole allure of spontaneous (instant) capture of life that Instagram is suppose to offer.
Anonymous online comments are made by verbal terrorists hurling incendiary rhetoric and hiding behind the moniker of free speech. Their goal is to inflict maximum damage to either the people in the news or to another online comment supporting the topic. While their exercise is little more than mental masturbation for their atrophied intellectual beliefs, […]
People who have Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plans (PCIP) through the California PCIP are being transitioned to a federal administrator of the program July 1. Letters have been sent out to members enrolled in the PCIP program directing them to send their next payment to the National Finance Center.
One of the glaring weaknesses of virtually all reporting on Washington scandals and controversies is the lack of perspective and historical context associated with the conduct. This failure holds true in the not only the reporting on controversies surrounding Attorney General Eric Holder but Congressional investigations as well. While a historical perspective doesn’t mitigate the […]
The 34,000 square foot enclosed equestrian center at Project Ride is almost like a sanctuary for the soul. Inside the large cavernous structure is this incredible open space filled with the muted voices of volunteers, riders and horses.
