Category Archives: health insurance

Healthcare Routlette

A letter to the editor from Alan Cipriani. I tried to put a comment up on the Daily Camera’s website, but apparently my post is too long and it’s just a PITA. It’s the typical healthcare tale of woe with … Continue reading

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How much does your health insurance cost?

If you’re self employed or have an individual plan, you already know. If you work for an employer with group coverage, most likely you don’t. I suggest becoming knowledgeable by asking your HR department what is the total cost of … Continue reading

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A better 2012!

Explanation of Benefit Forms for 2011. Our daughter had 6 stays in Children’s Hospital in 2011 (and one in 2010). Thanks to Assurant Health for paying all bills that were their responsibility. I’d say they totaled somewhere between $200 to … Continue reading

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Here’s what happens when you allow adverse selection

From a health insurance website: Next to my gym there is a taco wagon. It has been there for years. I know the owner. He knows I sell health ins. Late last summer he tells me he needs a knee … Continue reading

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Good news!

No, not the incandescent light bulbs. AP-GfK Poll: More than half say Obama should lose On health care reform… The poll found unpopularity for last year’s health care reform bill, one of Obama’s major accomplishments. About half of the respondents … Continue reading

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“The problem of escalating costs comes in large part from consumers being shielded from price signals.”

From Jonathan Gruber who advised both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama on health care reform. I say YOU BETCHA. Here’s the complete paragraph. Gruber also tells Capital NY that ObamaCare represents the last, best hope for a free-market solution to … Continue reading

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Individual Insurance, you’d think it never works

(links added 02/23/11) If you read the Daily Camera, one would belive that Individual Insurance is a total scam.  Being declined for acne is a hot topic with it being mentioned both editorially and in a recent letter to the editor.  … Continue reading

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Obscene health insurance company proffits

Fact Check. Perhaps critics are living in the past and not just a year or two.

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Applauding Olympia Snow

This morning the Daily Camera editorial staff took the opportunity of the widely reported decline of insurance coverage of a Grand Junction “fat” baby to applaud Olympia Snowe’s vote to move healthcare reform forward. At the moment, my issue has … Continue reading

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Ripped Off….

Ilene Kilbride of Boulder complains about the outrageous cost of health insurance in a letter to the editor today. People think they will be taxed heavily for a single-payer system, but we are being heavily taxed now — count up … Continue reading

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The Health insurance entitlement mentality

There are definintely some “moral hazard” issues involved.

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