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Tag: insurance companies

Dec 3
2011

Circumventing The Healthcare Laws

Politics

Over the past several months the mailings and phone calls from your insurance company have changed. Now they seem to be more geared towards “your healthcare” and “educating” you. Well there’s a reason for that. Yesterday the provision of Affordable Healthercare Act went into affect that says insurance companies must spend 80-85% on patient care […]

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Nov 15
2011

How Will SCOTUS Rule On Healthcare Reform?

Politics

With the Supreme Court expected to make a ruling on the constitutionality of the healthcare reform law next July, Democrats are starting to wonder if maybe they went a little too far: Democrats on Capitol Hill are worried that the Supreme Court will rule against President Obama’s healthcare reform law. Over the last couple weeks, […]

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Jul 21
2011

Trying To Defend News Corp, Fox Blames News Corp

Misc

When your parent company is the largest media corporation in the world and in the middle of one of the hugest corporate scandals in history, then blaming the media probably isn’t a good idea, but that’s exactly what happened on Fox yesterday. Bob Dilenschneider of the Dilenschneider Group was on Fox and Friends, trying to […]

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Nov 1
2010

The Top 10 Reasons I Have Decided Not To Vote Tomorrow

Politics

10. I am really looking forward to nonstop investigations of President Obama over the next two years. 9. It will make Sarah Palin proud. 8. Majority Leader Mitch has a real jazzy sound to it. 7. Insurance companies should have the right to deny coverage to anyone and jack up the prices whenever they want. […]

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Apr 7
2010

HCR Confusion Sets In – Who’s To Blame?

Science

We knew stories like this were only a matter of time: Two weeks after President Barack Obama signed the big health care overhaul into law, Americans are struggling to understand how — and when — the sweeping measure will affect them. Questions reflecting confusion have flooded insurance companies, doctors’ offices, human resources departments and business […]

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Mar 6
2010

Government Regulations And Why Republican Principals Can Cost You Money And Life

Society

One of the long time corner stones of the Republican Party has been trying to rid ourselves of any government regulation. They believe that people and business should be able to regulate themselves. Here’s an example of what that system produces: The market concentration for health insurance is so monopolized in some areas that insurance […]

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Feb 21
2010

Is The Public Option Alive Again?

Science

I’ve been tied up for the past 3 days rebuilding one of my servers and haven’t had time to really look at any thing news wise, which totally sucks, so I was really surprised to see this bit of news today: On a local TV interview show on Friday Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) basically said […]

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Feb 18
2010

Get Ready For Some Big Premium Spikes

Science

The healthcare Gestapo is up to their old tricks: Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today will release a new report showing more dramatic health insurance premium increases are proposed in Connecticut, Maine, Michigan, Oregon, Rhode Island and Washington. Keying off the Obama administration’s recent probe into a planned 39 percent rate hike from […]

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Jan 18
2010

So What Will Happen Tomorrow

Politics

If Massachusetts race ends up very close, I predict one of the 2 scenarios: Brown wins: Coakley will challenge it. This will spark outrage from the right as they start yelling how the election was stolen from them. Coakley wins: Brown will challenge it. The right will circle around Brown claiming he is standing up […]

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Dec 29
2009

A Look At The Cadillac Tax

Science

Bob Herbert has a great piece today tearing about one of the problems I have with the health care bill – the Cadillac tax. First off is Bob’s explanation of the system: The tax would kick in on plans exceeding $23,000 annually for family coverage and $8,500 for individuals, starting in 2013. In the first […]

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