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.
California Health Insurance
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Who Wants To Start A Health Insurance CO-OP With Me?
In theory, if new CO-OP plans were able to constitute themselves so as to serve rural areas, they could help to alleviate problems endemic to rural health insurance coverage and health care delivery.
HealthCare.gov helps same-sex couples find coverage by adding new details
“In the past, many same-sex couples have faced challenges searching for health coverage that suited their needs,” said Steve Larsen, director of the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight
Beware of Insurance Quoting Websites
These lead generation sites take your information and then resell it again and again to various agencies and agents. Within minutes of your query, you start getting phone calls. Sometimes these phone calls are welcome, most of the time they are not.
My Summer as a Bully
I don’t think in the immediate aftermath of the verbal train wreck known as my mouth, could any apology ever heal the wound that I created with my tongue…Chris was an easy target, yet he never got mean or cried.
Linked In and Suicide Prevention
The sum total of the attack upon me, and others, was that we were mentally ill for the beliefs we held…I was still willing to take a bullet to preserve American freedoms including their right to free speech…I can only hope that the bullet does not come from Crazy Bill. Think of the irony!
Confession of Depression
We are talking about the type of depression that seeps into your very soul and paralyzes you from normal engagement with friends, family, co-workers, and work… I would be lying if I said I never had an ‘off’ day… Often times it is the smallest act of friendship that offers the greatest therapeutic results.
Lower PCIP Rates
Kathy RobertsonSenior Staff Writer For The Sacramento Business Journal reports: A subsidized state health insurance program for individuals with preexisting conditions has lowered premiums an average of 18 percent, effective immediately. That means a 40-year-old Sacramento resident with heart disease will pay $289 per month instead of $332. A 60-year-old with a preexisting health condition […]
AB 52 would regulate health insurance rates
From healthcal.org By Matt Perry As health insurance premiums continue to escalate, consumer groups and patient advocates are asking the California Legislature to regulate the price of coverage. Yet outspoken opponents — including health insurers, doctors and hospitals — claim that rate regulation may not lower rates and could instead harm the quality of care […]
Health Care Reform, not perfect, but…
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), better known as health care reform, is slowly being implemented starting last September, 2010. As with any legislation, it is not perfect and upon closer inspection and reflection needs some adjustments to work as intended. The intention is to get affordable health care insurance to all Americans. The […]
