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Thursday, July 18, 2013

Health Wonk Review: The Bard's edition

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Louise Norris presents this week's intellectually stimulating ode to Billy Shakespeare, aka the Health Wonk Review . What makes Louise...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Burying the Lede

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In newspaper parlance, "burying the lede" means to "begin a news story with nonessential details ," or to obfuscate t...
Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Scamster Tricks

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So I return from lunch to find a voicemail from a distraught young lady. Seems she had bought health insurance this morning (or so she be...

5 Years in the Making: An OmniCare Update

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We first started covering the OmniCare prescritpion drug whistleblower/kickback debacle just over 5 years ago; our most recent update w...

Medicare Lives to See Another Day

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Medicare apparently will live to see another day or two as long as people stop getting sick and living longer.           A recent repor...

Cost of PCORI tax

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This week we are gathering data for clients to file their PCORI Tax payment, and explaining it to them. Between our time, the groups' t...
Monday, July 15, 2013

Friends with Benefits

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It appears that those who are benefitting most from the financial side of the Patient Protection Act have been engaged with the Administrati...

Your receiptionist will be verifying subsidy eligibility...?

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Received this notice from an association we belong to, not much more to be said “solution” CMS has for random checking the subsidy el...

Gee, Ya Think??

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As we've repeatedly pointed out, the whole ObamaTax Exchange roll-out is a magnet for fraud . And the evidence for that continues to ...

Too little, too late?

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The good news is that the MVNHS© has apparently come to its senses, and is planning to shut down the Liverpool Pathway: " ...the Gov...

Did Obama waive employer mandate to save the rest of ObamaCare?

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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....
Sunday, July 14, 2013

Early look at Community Rating

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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 ...

ObamaTax Bar Tab

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Your ObamaTax dollars at work: " I briefly scanned a schedule of upcoming mobile tour events ... That’s no fewer than three bourbon ...
Friday, July 12, 2013

Not One Additional Dime to the Deficit

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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...

Friday LinkFest

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■ First up, not sure whether this is good news or not, but "Dr" Theodoric of York may be re-opening his practice: " Tr...
Thursday, July 11, 2013

Finally, an appropriate ObamaTax ad venue

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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 ho...

Is Anyone Really Serious About Obamacare?

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Recently the folks at Opposing Views gave us 12 Ways Obamacare Has Failed and  admittedly they did a good job but came up short.           ...

Train . . . . Wreck

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Her lips are moving...

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Heh: " The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is on track to open the health insurance exchange on Oct. 1 despite “mischa...
Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Fees, Glorious Fees

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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 ...
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