It is unfortunate the Californians will be losing an affordable health insurance option. Anthem Blue Cross of California announced it was closing the popular plan ClearProtection Plus 5000 to new customers as of May 1, 2012
Health Care Insurane Coverage
Posts related to coverage, prescription medications, benefits and providers under health insurance plans.
Rush, Tell Your Sons To Stop Asking For Sex From Sandra Fluke
It is far cheaper to prevent an unwanted pregnancy that your sons might produce than to support the children your sons leave behind.
Day 13 of 21 Day Challenge: It’s Not What You Know, It’s What You Tweet.
To make a short story shorter, this non profit was wondering if I would write an article about healthcare reform from the perspective of a health insurance agent who supports it.
Day 9 of 21 Day Challenge: #War_On_Women
When you distill all of this down, there is an assault on women and their reproductive rights. Or to borrow a twitter handle War_On_Women. The flash point being whether contraceptives should be made available at no cost through health insurance plans.
Rush Slut Rant Backlash Social Media
Three of the companies were actually responding to twitter requests to boycott the Rush Limbaugh show by Thursday evening: @ProFlowers,@theSleepTrain, @eHarmony
Day 8 of 21 Day Challenge: A Little Poetry Please
After a day of setting up meetings, reviewing postcard designs and re-working quotes, it was time to let my brain be entertained. I attended a poetry reading at the Woodland Library organized by Jessica Kristie author of Dreaming in Darkness.
Health Insurance Agent Dinosaurs and Retail Stores
The point this drives home is that large companies, with a stake in healthcare reform, are positioning themselves to take advantage of the impending Individual Mandate that all people must purchase health insurance. Well, I might find myself sitting inside a Walmart discussing deductibles and coinsurance with my neighbors.
Doctor Visit Charges and Explanation of Benefits
One of the mysteries of the healthcare and health insurance are how the billing system works. Because there are so many people involved the invoices seem overly complicated and convoluted.
Health Insurance CO-OP’s Get Loans For Start Up
This is a great piece by Michael Meulemans on how Consumer Oriented and Operated Plans (CO-OPs) for health insurance are getting loans under the Healthcare Reform Laws to start up. It would be great if we could see something like this in California.
Are You a “Dual Eligible”? If so, your prescription drug benefits are enhanced.
Medicaid provides a “wrap-around” benefit for medications such as: antidepressants, atypical antipsychotics, antiretrovirals used in the treatment of HIV/AIDS
