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A Short Course on Long-Term-Care Insurance

According to the Department of HHS, at least 60% to 70% of people over 65 will eventually need long term care, either at home or in a nursing home, and that can be very expensive.  The average stay in a nursing home is almost 4 years, at a cost of about $270,000.  Your health insurance… Continue reading A Short Course on Long-Term-Care Insurance

It’s Spring, Spring, Spring (forward)!

Remember to set your clocks one hour ahead this weekend!   Ah, Spring… more daylight, more sunshine, everything in the garden is beautifully in bloom.   Oh… I guess that means it’s allergy season.   Be sure you understand your health insurance plan’s prescription benefit, just in case you need to refill your allergy prescription.    Remember that Generic… Continue reading It’s Spring, Spring, Spring (forward)!

COBRA Subsidy Extention – again

On March 2, 2010, ARRA was amended by the Temporary Extension Act of 2010, which extending federal funding for the ARRA COBRA subsidy and unemployment benefits. The deadline for eligibility for the 65% health insurance premium subsidy has now been extended through March 31, 2010. Previously, eligibility only extended to those who lost their jobs… Continue reading COBRA Subsidy Extention – again

News for Anthem Blue Cross members

If you have individual health insurance with Anthem Blue Cross of CA and are about to be hit with huge rate hikes, this news is for you.   Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner says his office is investigating… but is this a real investigation or is he politicizing the investigation to boost his run for Governor?

Canada-Care’s Secret

You want medical care like Canada’s?   Are you sure?   Take a look … and now tell me, are you really sure?

1 in 10 Canadian Leaders Says YES To American Medicine

This little article from PublicPlanFacts made me chuckle.   Is it tongue-in-cheek?  I think not.

Stick a Fork In It! Health Care Reform is Done

Health Care Reform — or as the broker community calls it, Stealth Care Reform — has come to a stand still.   Politicians have done an excellent job of blurring the definitional lines between health care and health insurance… and then had the audacity to slowly and subtly alter their conversation with the public (and the… Continue reading Stick a Fork In It! Health Care Reform is Done