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How to Provide Help When You Live With a Depressed Person
This is a really good article from Clever about how to help someone you’re living with deal with depression, especially during the lockdown. It has some great suggestions and I urge everyone to go read it. However, I have a minor issue with the article. It already assumes that the person trying to help someone…
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Trench on ‘surprise’ medical charges
Lately, an article from the New York Times about surprise medical charges has been making the rounds on Facebook. Once again people are taking the article at face value without doing any further research. Luckily for you, I’m here to tell you the real deal as I call upon my 20+ years experience in the healthcare…
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Are health insurance companies getting rid of customer service?
The trend among health insurance companies used to be to outsource their customer service overseas. United Healthcare was the biggest proponent of this practice in my opinion. Recently I received word through my job that a national carrier and a large east coast regional carrier are moving towards eliminating customer service reps altogether. I work…
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Obamacare stifles competition
Little Competition, High Premiums In NC Health Insurance Marketplace: Ok, first I need to get some prefaces out of the way. The first is the usual about I have 20+ years of working in the healthcare administration field. The other is that the article I linked to came out before the October 1st health exchange…
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Home Depot and Walgreen’s cut health benefits because of Obamacare
Home Depot Transitioning Part-Time Workers to Health Insurance Exchanges: Walgreens Drops Employee Health Insurance Coverage: Following in the footsteps of UPS national retail chains Home Depot and Walgreen’s have both announced drastic cuts to their employees’ health benefits. Home Depot is getting rid of healthcare coverage for their part-time employees while Walgreen’s is cutting healthcare…
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What can Obamacare do for you?
UPS cuts insurance to 15,000 spouses, blames Obamacare: UPS announced to its employees recently that they were eliminating benefits for the spouses of some 15,000 employees. This should not come as a shock to anyone. The only thing that should be shocking was that it was only 15,000. UPS is putting the blame squarely on…
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Make anti-vaccine parents pay higher premiums
Link Refusing to vaccinate a child is dangerous not just for that child but for entire communities. It’s precisely this point a colleague of mine was considering when he had the idea that parents who refuse to vaccinate their kids should pay substantially higher health insurance premiums. That is an awesome idea. It’s time to…
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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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