Problem Health Care That is Unaffordable and Unavailable for Families, Businesses, and Government FCAN.org is the Florida Consumer Action Network and have been lobbying for our rights for 25 years. They are are the Ralph Nader of the Florida, and they would actually give you the shirt off their back if they could. A more [...]
Continue →The recent drop in the value of the dollar has, in fact, been a good thing for anyone who works for a company that sells goods or services abroad. The reason is simple: As the dollar falls relative to the value of another country’s currency, people using that foreign currency can buy more stuff priced [...]
Continue →East Coast Health Insurance has been offering AARP products in Florida for exactly 2 weeks. This year AARP is being underwritten by Aetna and is a completely better plan. Last year it was handled by United Health Care who was peddling discount plans in what can only be called the most unusual thing ever. (Why [...]
Continue →For months, the Health Insurance Industry and some insider D.C. Democrats have been pressuring healthcare leaders and organizations to back down on demands that a public option be included in the final bill. What they didn’t count on is a united progressive block standing strong. House Healthcare Leaders like Maxine Waters, Keith Ellison, Lynn Woolsey, [...]
Continue →Report Provides State-By-State Look at the Impact to Residents, Businesses and State Government if Health Reform Fails Out-of-Pocket Health Care Costs Could Increase More Than 35 Percent in Every State by 2019 Researchers from the Urban Institute used the Health Insurance Policy Simulation Model to estimate how coverage and cost trends would change between now [...]
Continue →USA Today, your newspaper for the obvious has now figured out the most amazing thing. Not amazingly new or suprising new, but amazing because they were able to use deduction. Besides their normal printing of the date, USA Today has now began to state obvious facts and present them as news. With figures from the [...]
Continue →Ron Paul: We Need True Competition in Medical Care By tmartin • September 24, 2009 I have been a supporter of Ron Paul in nearly everyone of his ventures and believe that unless his basic economic principles are acted upon, we are truly facing an economic collapse. On the other hand, I have seen the [...]
Continue →What’s the issue? The leading health reform bills in Congress would impose a national individual mandate requiring most Americans to have health insurance. New standards would be set to determine “acceptable” minimum coverage and spell out how much people needed to contribute out of their own pockets. Coverage could be obtained in various ways, including [...]
Continue →The public option in my viewpoint is the single silliest notion, since giving out cash for broken down cars. It is a gimmick. Its not a solution. Many people fall victim to the thought process that it is actually a Universal health care option when in fact it is just another version of the ridiculous [...]
Continue →From USA Today Opinion Blog As a Florida health insurance broker, we see everyday the mess that is Medicare. The program itself is fine actually, the problem is the private insurance companies that were allowed to crawl in and make these Medicare advantage plans wasteful. Medicare is of course by everyone’s definition going bankrupt, and [...]
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