Category Archives: health insurance

Wonder when Jared Polis will figure this out? Maryland’ Single-Payer Health Care: Expensive | National Review Back in March, I wrote about Maryland Democrats talking up a single-payer system for health insurance, and how they were refusing to look too … Continue reading

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Someone tell Jared Polis – Commentary: U.S. Liberals Shouldn’t Copy Britain’s Dying NHS | Fortune The NHS is collapsing. Patients routinely face treatment delays, overcrowded hospitals, and doctor shortages. Even its most ardent defenders admit that the NHS is in … Continue reading

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Disgraceful – Patient blindsided by $17,850 urine test that insurer said was worth $100 | Albuquerque Journal Sunset’s billings “are in line with the charges of competing out-of-network labs in the geographical area,” lab attorney Justo Mendez said in an … Continue reading

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It just takes awhile – Single Payer is Doomed Before It Starts The Law of Subsidy has killed the NHS. It just doesn’t realize that it is dead. Ya think? According to the article it’s due to common sense laws … Continue reading

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Faster please – Bill would require full transparency in health care pricing | Western Colorado | gjsentinel.com Instead, his idea is to force providers and insurance companies to publicly post what they plan to charge for any procedure or medical … Continue reading

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Disrupter – Amazon, Buffett, JPMorgan tackle US health care “tapeworm” – NewsTimes “The ballooning costs of (health care) act as a hungry tapeworm on the American economy,” Buffett said in a prepared statement. “Our group does not come to this problem … Continue reading

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Subsidies based on income just became much more valuable – Trump’s health subsidy cuts may not hit local enrollment The situation is the tax credit to reduce premiums paid by Obamacare enrollees was already shielding them from this year average … Continue reading

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The solution that rolls off the tongue of all my Progressive acquaintances – Are You Sure You Want Medicare for All? – Reason.com Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) plans to unveil his long-awaited “Medicare for all” proposal for government-controlled, single-payer health … Continue reading

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Connect for Health CEO exaggerates a decrease from filed rates for 2018 individual plans Below is an email from Connect for Health Colorado CEO Kevin Patterson. I would link to it if I could but that doesn’t appear possible. He … Continue reading

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Obamacare lives on in Colorado – Division of Insurance approves health insurance premiums for 2018 | Department of Regulatory Agencies Average individual premium change across all companies: 26.7% (average requested change was 26.96%) Company Average Requested Change* Average Approved Change* SERFF Tracking … Continue reading

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Colorado’s Glitchy New Medicaid Payment System Has Some Doctors Declaring ‘Crisis’ | CPR Practices across the state have done financial gymnastics to stay afloat after the state’s Medicaid agency started to erroneously reject claims. This is absolutely nothing short of … Continue reading

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Stan Brock’s clinics march the country and do what the government is either unable or unwilling to: improve Americans’ access to health care. Thousands Visit Free Clinics: ‘We’re The Middle Class, And We’re Here’ | The Federalist It is a … Continue reading

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This kind of primary care allows patients to bypass insurance and pay a flat rate to see their doctor for basic services. Direct Primary Care: A Better Way to Pay for Healthcare? – NBC News – video at the link Dr … Continue reading

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American Health Care Act

Enjoy….

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COBRA, should you take it or leave it? You can’t leave COBRA whenever you feel like it and enroll in an Obamacare plan. If you elect COBRA, you can ONLY change to an individual Obamacare plan during open enrollment or … Continue reading

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I’m hopeful they saw this coming? – Local health-care execs: Current system ‘dysfunctional’ – BizWest Excerpts and comments: Flanagan co-founded Nextera in 2011, which offers primary-care service to members for a monthly fee. “Insurance should be used for what all types … Continue reading

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Obamcare: Apparently free birth control only goes so far

casey on Twitter: “What changed? http://t.co/ulbm5TpEJn“. Dream meets reality. You can’t make this stuff up.

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“It was a necessary lie, and the useful idiots are still parroting it.”

says Instapundit, commenting on Meghan McArdle’s article: What Everyone Knew About Obamacare and Wouldn’t Say Meghan concludes… We forget that when millions of people hear the president say that “if you like your insurance, you can keep it” and “premiums … Continue reading

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Doctors driven to bankruptcy

AND THIS IS BEFORE OBAMACARE: Doctors driven to bankruptcy – Apr. 8, 2013. Perhaps Obamacare will bring the doctors business but at what cost?

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Obamacare avoidance for small business

The tip of the iceberg, Nebraska Wendy’s franchisee slashes worker hours to sidestep ObamaCare A Nebraska Wendy’s franchise is slashing employee hours so the owners do not  have to pay for health benefits for their workers under ObamaCare’s  requirements. WOWT … Continue reading

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