Large corporations have begun raising an eyebrow to the proposed healthcare reform. The Business Roundtable as they are known is somewhat akin to your modern day knights of the roundtable. Instead of swords they have pens, personal assistants over horses, and suits in regards to chainmail (alright maybe they aren’t really as similar but that’s [...]
Continue →Picture this: It’s 1994, maybe you’re still rockin’ that side ponytail and fashionably ripped up hypercolor shirt. Ok, ok, maybe. But hey the Clinton administration has been in office for a little over a year and things are lookin’ up from those down years with President George Bush right? One of the main initiatives on [...]
Continue →As the Healthcare reform bill keeps slowly churning its way through congress, seems that in addition to it, there may be other small issues abound. The Obamacare reform continues to take a bureaucratical backseat to other nonsensical issues relating to healthcare. According to U.S. News and World Reports there was a bill approved by the [...]
Continue →I know you’ve seen the cartoon before, a bull in a china shop. Classic. Okay now picture three bulls in a china shop, and that china shop is the U.S. economy, and you’ve got a very crowded volatile situation. These aren’t your run of the mill bulls you see in the rodeo either. Not just [...]
Continue →While House of Representatives democrats and liberals alike have been infuriated over the Stupak-Pitts amendment’s inclusion into the proposed health care bill (one which guarantees stricter guidelines on abortion coverage) it appears that another Democrat is prepared to engage in the same level of discourse. Senator Ben Nelson (D-Nebraska) told the associated press that, “I’m [...]
Continue →Tuesday saw a small victory yesterday when the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released an analysis stating that health insurance premiums should not rise for most Americans under the bill that the Senate is currently debating. The report, generated from the non-partisan CBO, is the closet thing we’ve seen to an factual assessment of this debate. [...]
Continue →“You’re Going To Die Sooner!” Says Senator Tom Coburn With the brevity of a hungry African Lion Senator Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) was very clear with what he thinks about the health care reform that’s being debate in the Senate Chambers. While addressing seniors who said “I have a message for you: You’re going to die [...]
Continue →WASHINGTON (AP) -The Senate is expected to introduce a new long-term care health insurance program to help the elderly and medically disabled avoid nursing homes. The legislation which is likely to be introduced by the Senate Majority Leader is supposed to offer a voluntary long term care program possibly tomorrow. The Community Living Assistance Services [...]
Continue →I personally have been selling the Cigna individual health insurance plans for about a year as they just came out. I had always though of Cigna as a good company who could be trusted. I mean their rates are incredibly low firstly, and secondly they pay their brokers (like me) very low commissions. As an [...]
Continue →The current bill as it stands now still has plenty of loopholes to guarantee the health insurance industry its profits are able to continue. For one, disclosures about the health insurance plans that help the public understand what their buying are still missing from the legislation. In other words, its still very simple for the [...]
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