The Trench Reynolds Report

  • Trench’s Annual Enrollment for Morons

    So as I may have mentioned in my latest day job I work in what’s called a benefit center. Basically, we help employees from certain companies enroll in their health and welfare benefits for the year. You may know this as annual enrollment. As with any occupation that deals with the general public we get…

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  • Why prescription drugs are so expensive

    I know no one asked but I’m going to tell you anyway. Do you know why prescription drugs are so expensive? It’s obviously not the research since so many drugs have side effects that are worse than the disease. I doubt it’s the ingredients either. The reason I think that the cost of prescription drugs is so…

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  • The healthcare war of attrition continues

    A new wrinkle has developed with the company that I do annual enrollment for and I would imagine that other companies are doing it as well. Last time I talked about how they were more or less excluding spouses from coverage in order to make up the cost for the mandate of covering adult dependent children. Now…

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  • More on Healthcare ‘Reform’

    The last time I talked about healthcare reform I bemoaned the fact that the new healthcare regulations allow adult dependent children to be covered under their parents’ plans until the age of 26. I’m sure some of you are kicking up your heels about that. If you are you don’t realize at what price that…

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  • Healthcare reform Part 2

    When I was 19 I was going to school part-time. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. My dad told me that since I was 19 I either needed to go to school full-time or I needed to get a job that had health coverage. So I went to work…

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  • Trench on the new healthcare law

    Again I don’t comment a lot on politics lately however some things are so monumental that even I need to comment on it and today that would be the new healthcare law. I spent 20 years in the healthcare industry both for doctors and for insurance companies so I do know a little about the…

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  • One third of parents are Luddites

    AP Poll: Third of parents oppose swine flu vaccine: Let’s go over this again. There is no scientific proof that vaccines cause autism. The odds of something happening to your kids from a vaccine are the same as winning the lottery. Personally I’d rather not have my kids die from swine flu but that’s just…

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  • Whole Foods Boycott

    So this is what the Whole Foods boycott is all about? You have your tampaxes in a twist because CEO John Mackey is against President Obama’s healthcare plan and the fact that he basically called you all a bunch of fatasses. You know something? He’s absolutely right. And I even smoke and I still think…

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  • Vaccines didn’t cause autism, court rules

    Link A special court ruled Thursday that evidence presented in three cases by parents of children with autism did not prove a link between autism and certain early childhood vaccines. Will you Luddites and conspiracy nuts get your kids vaccinated now?

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