In the news today of course is the continuing saga of health reform. In the Democrats final chess move, they are attempting to pass the Senate Health Reform bill by a process called Reconciliation which I have discussed in much detail over the last few weeks. Usually, this process is used to pass budgets but [...]
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I received an email today from the great website http://democracyforamerica.com, which is seeking to not save health reform, though this is a great idea, but to save the public option. Health reform without a public option will make the health insurance companies rich but do nothing to control rising health care costs. I am asking [...]
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Everyday, Democrats are becoming more and more desperate to reform our health care system, while Republicans look for ways to foil them. Most Americans are sadly ignorant of this health reform fiasco, but they should be very much angry at this point. Like when the angry mob goes after Frankenstein, Americans should go to Washington [...]
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A new study from the Robert Wood Foundation that hypothesizes the role of health insurance exchanges after health reform. Introduction While the health reform debate continues in Washington, both the House and the Senate proposals include the establishment of health insurance exchanges to help facilitate the purchase of insurance for individuals and small employers. Although [...]
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Cobra is great if your sick, even if your not it can sometimes be appealing especially if you are over 50. But don’t fall into the trap of sticking with Cobra! Let me tell you a little story that was just told to me yesterday by a potential client. In Utah where the economy is [...]
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Aetna’s president was recently interviewed and came down hard on our system of health care in this country. Which is ironic of course as they profit so blatantly from our mismanged care system. What is his chief complaint? I would have guessed it to be something like rising health care costs are symptomatic of fraud [...]
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I get to my office this morning and start combing the health reform news and health insurance updates when I find an article from the New York Times about regulating health insurance companies premium increases and as I sit there reading it, I am amazed by how completely wrong he is about his main supposition. [...]
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With the health reform issue coming to a head, it is beginning to look like it might come down to abortion. The Democrats and Obama have only one good chance left at passing this massive “reform” bill which is through a process called reconciliation. Of course reconciliation was not made for this kind of thing, [...]
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010 – CNN is reporting that our president is planning to release a new health care reform plan on Wednesday in order to pass a health care reform package according to the White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. The plan promises to include a free yacht to every American as well a full month [...]
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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has put her money where her tomato eater is and promised to deliver the 51 votes needed to pass health reform. Out of literally nowhere, health reform is back on the table through a process called reconciliation where only 51 votes are needed to advance this legislation. If it [...]
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