We all contribute to social security and medicare..whether were 18 or 25 or 55. We all will be consumers of health care…why would we exclude anybody from the responsibility of taking care of our collective health?
California Health Insurance
Posts specifically related to California health insurance, enrollment, premiums, plans, termination, Covered California, Medi-Cal, Medicare, small groups.
What Are Medical Expenses And Can I Deduct Them From My Taxes?
Once you set up a HSA in coordination with a High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP), the contributions you make to the HSA are deducted from your Federal taxes. You are then reimbursed for your qualified medical expenses from the HSA.
Birth Control; A Woman’s Health Issue Not Religious Liberty
It is time we move forward with protecting the health of women. The active protection of women’s health in America will reduce government expenditures and increase the productivity and well being throughout our communities.
Family Healthcare Debt: It’s Your Neighbor’s Problem
The combination of excessively high cost medical treatment and lack of access to affordable health insurance is putting a parking brake on the productivity of America.
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.
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.
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.
