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Wednesday, February 28, 2018

MidWeek LinkFest

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■ Medical Mutual of Ohio is enhancing its autism coverage for many of its insureds "on the spectrum." I've already reache...
Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Tomayto, tomahto

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Via The Banana News Network (courtesy FoIB Holly R): " About 9 million fewer Americans will have health insurance next year thanks to ...
Monday, February 26, 2018

The MVNHS© continues swirling

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Another day, another chapter i n the on-going train-wreck we lovingly call the Much Vaunted National Health System©: " NHS crisis: P...

Dunkin' (Medicare) Donuts

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We first blogged on the (so-called) Donut Hole in Medicare over a dozen years ago: " The donut-hole comes into play whenever a cove...
Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Tacos, Tequila and (Medical) Tourism

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Medical Tourism has been a frequent topic here at IB, so this tweet from FoIB Dr Kris Held caught my eye: Yesterday I saw a precious la...
Tuesday, February 20, 2018

"Skimpy" Insurance

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Tomayto, tomahto. From CMS Secretary Seema Verma: Our proposed STLD rule would allow insurers to sell a flexible and short-term insura...
Monday, February 19, 2018

Monday Morning LinkFest

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■ Interesting story about the (perhaps not so precious) Much Vaunted National Health System©, courtesy of co-blogger Mike : " [Prim...
Friday, February 16, 2018

STCi: Revisited

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It's been a while since we talked about Short Term Care insurance coverage: " Short-term care (also known as Recovery Care or “LTC...
Thursday, February 15, 2018

Post-Valentine's Health Wonk Review

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Steve Anderson hosts this month's eclectic collection of health care wonkery, with a decidedly Olympian effort. Do check it out!

Celebrating Obamacare's Exchange "Success"

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Last week a new report  came out - albeit not from CMS - showing Obamacare's enrollment results for 2018. The headlines make the case th...
Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Sidebar Update News

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FoIB Roger Downey has launched a new health news aggregating site, and it's quite interesting: " My Healthcare Report is the hea...

About That Individual Mandate...

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For the last few months we have been hearing President Trump touting his "repeal of the individual mandate" as a huge opportunity ...
Tuesday, February 13, 2018

#Fake ObamaCare News

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Uh-oh, looks like someone misspelled 3000% rate decrease : " Health care premiums for the skimpiest Obamacare plans in the Distri...
Monday, February 12, 2018

Monday Afternoon LinkFest

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■ First up, via FoIB Holly R, is news that the Much Vaunted National Health System© continues to circle the drain: " [E]xpenses hav...

Another Timely Reminder

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That health insurance ≠ health care . As FoIB David Fluker points out: A lot of them won't accept Covered CA plans either. https:...

Happy (Belated) Blogiversary

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Well! I certainly don't understand how that happened: We recently (January 31st) marked our 15th (!!) blogiversary, but failed to n...
Friday, February 09, 2018

Breaking: Is the Death Panel gone?

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It would appear so: Senate budget deal would repeal "ObamaCare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board" aka IPAB." https://t....

Winter Olympics Heads' Up

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Our friends at GeoBlue inform us that: " Leading up to the event, there have been concerns due to the proximity of the games to th...
Monday, February 05, 2018

From the Mailbag: A Toughie

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This one seems to be a real poser: " I am hoping you can answer some questions I have. I've been looking at my marketplace applic...
Friday, February 02, 2018

Conjunction Junction: 'And' vs 'Or'

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Individual disability policies are one of the two most complicated products in our portfolio (the other being Long Term Care insurance )....
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