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Medicare Must Change
Medicare’s growing costs make it a major component of our country’s current debt crisis. It must change quickly and maybe drastically to avoid certain economic ruin and preserve some form of a elder...
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All You Need to Know About Medicare Part D
Medicare Part D is complicated. There’s no getting around it. It’s complicated because many conflicting interests have to be served to make it possible: drug manufacturers, drug retailers, insurance...
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2013: Changes Ahead in Health Care
After 3 years of rumbling court fights, legislative threats and golden promises, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) moves into first gear and begins 2013 with new taxes and a few changes to our health care...
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Health Care and Employers in 2013
Up until now, most of the news about the Affordable Care Act (ACA) centered around the individual mandate requiring all people to have health insurance. But there’s another ACA mandate, the employers’...
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Will the ACA health insurance exchanges be up in time?
Unless the state health insurance online exchanges are open for business on October 1, or soon after, there won’t be time enough for the millions of people expected to be processed and enrolled in new...
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Individual Health Insurance Purchasers Face Highest Rate Increases
Because of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the cost of everyone’s health insurance will be going up. But the cost will be going up the most for the very people the health care reform law was supposed...
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How Essential are the ACA’s Essential Health Benefits?
The Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) individual mandate requiring everyone to purchase health insurance has gotten all the attention so far; but there are many more ACA mandates on the way. One was...
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Can Doctors Bring Down the Cost of Health Care?
U.S. health care spending last year totaled $2.68 trillion. That’s 10 times what health care cost in 1980 and two-and-a-half times per capita more than most developed nations in the world. Speaking...
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Real Reasons For High Health Care Costs
The U.S. pays more for health care than every other country in the world. Some blame the fee-for-service medical payment system for this. They’re wrong. Government regulations and a 3rd party...
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All You Need to Know About Health Insurance Exchanges
People who know I write a blog on health care are asking me questions about the new health insurance exchanges: What do they do? Who will use them? Why are they important? Are they important?...
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Will the Individual Mandate be Delayed?
Affordable Care Act (ACA) officials surprised everyone when they announced that the employer mandate to provide health benefits for their workers would be delayed until 2015. Another shocking...
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Calculating Anew the Cost of the Affordable Care Act
If the public had known the true cost of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), it never would have passed. Deception and creative accounting masked the true cost of the bill from the beginning. But now,...
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Fraudulent Claims on the Health Insurance Exchanges
$10 billion is what we’ll lose in penalties if the Employer Mandate provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is delayed a year according the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). But that wasn’t the...
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Insurance Exchange Delays: Should We Be Concerned?
According to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the state exchanges should be ready on October 1 to begin enrolling people in the exchanges and processing requests for subsides and tax credits to purchase...
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