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“It’s not health insurance. It’s bankruptcy insurance.”
June 17, 2013 – I was approaching 60 years of age; I had exhausted my savings to pay for a private health insurance policy that was no longer financially…
Obamacare giveth. Employers taketh away?
May 31, 2013 – You gotta wonder how some people in the health insurance business sleep at night. Oh wait. You can’t sleep if you stay up late thinking…
Want to fix health care? Watch this movie.
March 9, 2013 – Escape Fire, The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare, describes how health care in America has turned into a business. How the quest for…
Consumer protections in industry crosshairs
January 25, 2013 – If you're a 20- or 30-something and have health coverage, you're being targeted by insurance industry campaign to eliminate two important…
Predicting the future of insurance premiums
January 22, 2013 – Today, many Americans are asking, "Will my premiums go up in 2014?" There is no simple answer ... but the answer for many Americans is that…
A family’s health insurance ‘rabbit hole’
April 5, 2012 – Two years from now, when the main pillars of health reform become operative, young families will be able to buy decent coverage through an…
Lifetime limits a big (million-dollar) deal
March 6, 2012 – The costs of removing lifetime caps on health insurance coverage are expected to be modest for insurance carriers. The impact for insured…
Kill health reform? not on their lives. (pt. 3)
May 7, 2011 – The health reform law is making consumers without coverage or poor coverage more likely to seek preventive care and, thus more likely to…
Kill health reform? Not on their lives. (pt. 2)
May 2, 2011 – Jennifer, a 33-year-old college student, struggles with mental illness. It's been an ongoing battle for Jennifer, who's founder of a…