While having lunch the other day, I was talking with two physicians, one retired from active practice and the other having practiced for clo...
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Ja, ve haff der insurance
As we move inexorably closer to a nationalized, single-payer health care system , it may be worth noting that another such system is fading,...
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Forever 21 no more
Forever 21, a store that caters to young people on a budget, is one of my daughter's favorite places to shop. And who can blame her? Gre...
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If you like your current plan...So sad, Too bad
Much like Health Savings Account plans will be phased out under the ObamaTax, Garden State B&E (no, not that - "Basic and Essentia...
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Still finding out "what's in it" after 3 years - and counting.
Investors Business Daily posted this story online August 13 that suggests “ If a charitable hospital treats a homeless person who staggers i...
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Cavalcade of Risk #190: Call for submissions
Jacob Irwin hosts next week's Cav. Entries are due by Monday (the 19th). To submit your risk-related post, just click here to email...
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Pick a Plan - Any Plan at All
According to the president and his minions, this fall you will be able to pick a health insurance plan from any number of offerings on the #...
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Health Wonk Review: Dog Daze (of August) edition
David WIlliams hosts this late summer round-up of interesting, provocative and always informative posts of health care wonketry. It's s...
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Exchange Security Breach.....who pays?
There have been a lot of discussions this past week or two on the potential of ID theft in the exchanges. While people getting their ID stol...
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5 Years in the Making: An OmniCare Update
We first started covering the OmniCare prescritpion drug whistleblower/kickback debacle just over 5 years ago; our most recent update was ...
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Medicare Lives to See Another Day
Medicare apparently will live to see another day or two as long as people stop getting sick and living longer. A recent report cou...
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Friends with Benefits
It appears that those who are benefitting most from the financial side of the Patient Protection Act have been engaged with the Administrati...
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Gee, Ya Think??
As we've repeatedly pointed out, the whole ObamaTax Exchange roll-out is a magnet for fraud . And the evidence for that continues to pil...
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Too little, too late?
The good news is that the MVNHS© has apparently come to its senses, and is planning to shut down the Liverpool Pathway: " ...the Govern...
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Did Obama waive employer mandate to save the rest of ObamaCare?
CATO had an interesting write up on the Liberty University v. Lew case, Liberty lost the battle but it could have been a victory in the War....
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Early look at Community Rating
A broker I work with passed on an analysis from Humana comparing a December renewal to community rating. 5 cases, 2 would see similar rates ...
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ObamaTax Bar Tab
Your ObamaTax dollars at work: " I briefly scanned a schedule of upcoming mobile tour events ... That’s no fewer than three bourbon fes...
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Not One Additional Dime to the Deficit
Is it possible to un-sign legislation? Can the president, who promised he would not sign health care legislation if it added even one dime t...
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Friday LinkFest
■ First up, not sure whether this is good news or not, but "Dr" Theodoric of York may be re-opening his practice: " Trauma ...
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Finally, an appropriate ObamaTax ad venue
So it's not enough to enlist Matlock and Michael Jordan to tout the train-wreck, now the brain trust at HHS has finally embraced hones...
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Is Anyone Really Serious About Obamacare?
Recently the folks at Opposing Views gave us 12 Ways Obamacare Has Failed and admittedly they did a good job but came up short. ...
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Her lips are moving...
Heh: " The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is on track to open the health insurance exchange on Oct. 1 despite “mischarac...
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Fees, Glorious Fees
So you think many of us dodged a bullet when the (Evil) Employer Mandate got pushed off a year ? Not so fast there, pardner. Assurant 's...
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Cavalcade of Risk #187 now online
Bob Wilson makes his CavRisk hosting debut with a knockout effort, featuring risk-related posts on "hunger, health care, health care ...
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The ObamaTax hits just keep on coming
As we noted earlier, " [m]illions of smokers could be priced out of health insurance because of tobacco penalties in [The ObamaTax] ....
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Of COURSE your sensitive, PRIVATE health info is safe....
And speaking of the soon-to-be-online (maybe) Data Hub , isn't it nice to know that all your info is totally secure? Totally: " The...
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We Are the Baby Daddy
The upcoming generation of "children" have learned to expect everything and be responsible for nothing. Kind of sounds like our pr...
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Health Care Good News, and Bad....
■ Japanese scientists have begun growing a liver: " A group in Yokohama reported it has grown a primitive liver in a petri dish using a...
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Eat Your Vegetables and Buy Health Insurance
Moms are great at reminding us of what we need to do. Eat your vegetables Say your prayers Don't run with scissors You could put your...
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Lack of Employer Reporting bogus excuse
The inability to get employer reporting up and running is the excuse De Jour for waiving penalities and not substantiating income when it co...
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ObamaTax: Not Ready for Prime Time
Fresh on the heels of the ObamaTax (Evil) Employer Mandate Reprieve comes this news: " The Obama administration announced Friday that ...
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And Anthem joins in...
As we noted the other day, some carriers are looking for creative ways to help their clients forestall at least some of the train-wreck: ...
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Cavalcade of Risk #187: Call for submissions
Bob Wilson hosts next week's Cav. Entries are due by Monday (the 8th). To submit your risk-related post, just click here to email i...
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What should they have done?
With the latest delay in implementing ACA seeing the employer mandate pushed back a year we should start asking if there might not be a bett...
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Question of the day
In response to my post last night , co-blogger Bob posed this doozy: " Employers are exempt from reporting and will not be subject to f...
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An offer you can't refuse?
Our group health insurance plan is with UHC; we currently have a March 1 renewal date. Recently, UHC made small group clients an interesting...
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What the...? (Breaking)
So The ObamaTax Man has unilaterally decided to put the metaphoric brakes, at least temporarily, on the (Evil) Employer mandate: " Bus...
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