Exchange Security Breach.....who pays? Rismal Sido 15.25 Add Comment Edit 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... Read More
5 Years in the Making: An OmniCare Update Rismal Sido 11.00 Add Comment Edit We first started covering the OmniCare prescritpion drug whistleblower/kickback debacle just over 5 years ago; our most recent update was ... Read More
Medicare Lives to See Another Day Rismal Sido 08.08 Add Comment Edit Medicare apparently will live to see another day or two as long as people stop getting sick and living longer. A recent report cou... Read More
Friends with Benefits Rismal Sido 20.00 Add Comment Edit It appears that those who are benefitting most from the financial side of the Patient Protection Act have been engaged with the Administrati... Read More
Gee, Ya Think?? Rismal Sido 10.00 Add Comment Edit 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... Read More
Too little, too late? Rismal Sido 07.00 Add Comment Edit The good news is that the MVNHS© has apparently come to its senses, and is planning to shut down the Liverpool Pathway: " ...the Govern... Read More
Did Obama waive employer mandate to save the rest of ObamaCare? Rismal Sido 05.35 Add Comment Edit 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.... Read More
Early look at Community Rating Rismal Sido 09.27 Add Comment Edit 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 ... Read More
ObamaTax Bar Tab Rismal Sido 08.02 Add Comment Edit Your ObamaTax dollars at work: " I briefly scanned a schedule of upcoming mobile tour events ... That’s no fewer than three bourbon fes... Read More
Not One Additional Dime to the Deficit Rismal Sido 10.51 Add Comment Edit 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... Read More
Friday LinkFest Rismal Sido 07.00 Add Comment Edit ■ First up, not sure whether this is good news or not, but "Dr" Theodoric of York may be re-opening his practice: " Trauma ... Read More
Finally, an appropriate ObamaTax ad venue Rismal Sido 08.30 Add Comment Edit 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... Read More
Is Anyone Really Serious About Obamacare? Rismal Sido 06.58 Add Comment Edit Recently the folks at Opposing Views gave us 12 Ways Obamacare Has Failed and admittedly they did a good job but came up short. ... Read More
Her lips are moving... Rismal Sido 06.20 Add Comment Edit Heh: " The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is on track to open the health insurance exchange on Oct. 1 despite “mischarac... Read More
Fees, Glorious Fees Rismal Sido 08.25 Add Comment Edit 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... Read More
Cavalcade of Risk #187 now online Rismal Sido 07.30 Add Comment Edit Bob Wilson makes his CavRisk hosting debut with a knockout effort, featuring risk-related posts on "hunger, health care, health care ... Read More
The ObamaTax hits just keep on coming Rismal Sido 07.49 Add Comment Edit As we noted earlier, " [m]illions of smokers could be priced out of health insurance because of tobacco penalties in [The ObamaTax] .... Read More
Of COURSE your sensitive, PRIVATE health info is safe.... Rismal Sido 13.24 Add Comment Edit 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... Read More
We Are the Baby Daddy Rismal Sido 08.58 Add Comment Edit The upcoming generation of "children" have learned to expect everything and be responsible for nothing. Kind of sounds like our pr... Read More
Health Care Good News, and Bad.... Rismal Sido 08.30 Add Comment Edit ■ Japanese scientists have begun growing a liver: " A group in Yokohama reported it has grown a primitive liver in a petri dish using a... Read More
Eat Your Vegetables and Buy Health Insurance Rismal Sido 06.42 Add Comment Edit 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... Read More
Lack of Employer Reporting bogus excuse Rismal Sido 07.40 Add Comment Edit The inability to get employer reporting up and running is the excuse De Jour for waiving penalities and not substantiating income when it co... Read More
ObamaTax: Not Ready for Prime Time Rismal Sido 19.18 Add Comment Edit Fresh on the heels of the ObamaTax (Evil) Employer Mandate Reprieve comes this news: " The Obama administration announced Friday that ... Read More
And Anthem joins in... Rismal Sido 09.11 Add Comment Edit 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: ... Read More
Cavalcade of Risk #187: Call for submissions Rismal Sido 06.17 Add Comment Edit 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... Read More
What should they have done? Rismal Sido 09.03 Add Comment Edit 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... Read More
Question of the day Rismal Sido 10.00 Add Comment Edit 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... Read More
An offer you can't refuse? Rismal Sido 08.00 Add Comment Edit Our group health insurance plan is with UHC; we currently have a March 1 renewal date. Recently, UHC made small group clients an interesting... Read More
What the...? (Breaking) Rismal Sido 16.17 Add Comment Edit So The ObamaTax Man has unilaterally decided to put the metaphoric brakes, at least temporarily, on the (Evil) Employer mandate: " Bus... Read More
What Color Was Your Volvo? Rismal Sido 12.20 Add Comment Edit The Obamacare health insurance exchange is expected to be operational on 10/1/2013. The key word here is expected. But to get past the fir... Read More
In the news.... Rismal Sido 11.30 Add Comment Edit ■ Is one ever too young to buy life or disability insurance? There are certainly some compelling reasons to do so: depending on the policy t... Read More
Obamacare Gold Mine Rismal Sido 17.56 Add Comment Edit Obamacare subsidies are a gold mine for those who know how to game the system and you can bet there are plenty of folks who are experts. ... Read More
Is There an App For That? Rismal Sido 08.40 Add Comment Edit Obamacare needs people under 30, especially the healthy ones, to buy health insurance in droves if this master plan stands a chance of worki... Read More
Et tu, Marian? Rismal Sido 06.04 Add Comment Edit Last week, Bob asked a very crucial question: why, if it's such a great idea (and a requirement ), " is the government still trying... Read More