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… die?   It’s expensive!  Cedars Sinai Medical Center billed Medicare $132,000 (yes!) for ONE week of care.    I don’t want this to be morose but I do want to use my father’s death a couple of months ago as a life lesson about how to be pro-active in your own medical care.

The doctors wanted to run every diagnostic test they…

WOW!   The Insurance Mom just went global!   How cool is THAT?!!

The Insurance Mom wants to know… does this make ANY sense to you?

Last year it became possible for an unhealthy, uninsurable person to get guaranteed health insurance.  The government enacted the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP).   It’s available.  It’s affordable.  And the benefits aren’t too bad either.  Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it?    Read on.

My…

If you’re taking Lipitor for high cholesterol (no more chocolate chip cookies and milk for you!), then you’ll be interested to hear about Pfizer’s new $4 program.

If you have health insurance and your co-pay is less than $54, you’ll be able to buy Lipitor for $4 with Pfizer’s new discount card, for up to 12 months.     If your…

Thanks to Obama’s Health Care Reform laws and the confusion between grandfathered and non-grandfathered plans, things are a-changing and are difficult for everyone to understand… even for The Insurance Mom!

If  you have an individual/family plan with Anthem BC, you recently received a huge mailing full of documents, jargon, pamphlets and choices, oh my!

The documents you’ve received talk about…

Hey Moms and Dads… NOW is the time to get your kids health insurance.    Especially if you haven’t been able to get them insurance before because of an illness or pre-existing health condition.   NOW means NOW, no waiting!   In California, the health insurance companies must give your kids health insurance when you submit an application — with The Insurance…

Remember when you were a kid and your mom took you to the doctor every year for a check-up before school started?  No?  Well, maybe you’ve blocked it out.   Don’t you remember getting that lollipop on your way out of the doctor’s office?

Now, because of the federal health care reform, you can start going to the doctor again every…

The Insurance Mom wants you to stay healthy!  When you stay healthy then you don’t have to go to the doctor, get all kinds of expensive tests and treatments and worry about the high deductible on your health insurance plan.

Here’s a great little article about how we can easily take care of ourselves.   And, with the new federal…

As confusing and aggravating as the new health care reform laws are, in CA there is actually some good news starting 1/1/11.

Shortly after the reform law was enacted on 3/23/10, the insurance companies stopped accepting applications for children only (the explanation is long and boring, but if you want to know the back story send The Insurance Mom an…

That’s how my brains feel!   It’s been several months since I’ve been here, but there has been SO much going on in the wacky world of health insurance and health care reform I’m having trouble keeping up with it.    I’m having even more trouble filtering it all down so that I can make some sense of it for you.    I…