New Health Insurance Rules: Free Preventive Care
The Department of Health and Human Services has issued new regulations requiring private health insurance plans, beginning on or after September 23, 2010, to cover evidence-based preventive services...
View Article85.7 Percent of Arizona Small Businesses Eligible for Health Care Tax Credits
More than 85.7 percent of Arizona small businesses with fewer than 25 employees will be eligible this year for tax credits to help pay the cost of employee health coverage, according to a new report...
View ArticleArizona Lawsuit Against Healthcare Reform
The East Valley Tribune reported: The Goldwater Institute filed a federal lawsuit Thursday to block national healthcare reform, arguing it violates the rights of a Tempe business owner, Arizona...
View ArticleHow Many People Stay in Their Job For the Health Insurance?
“How many people would quit their stinking job that they keep for the health insurance?” I wrote this in yesterday’s post and as I re-read it I thought it might be a good question for readers of...
View ArticleMedicare and Healthcare Reform
I was talking to a client this weekend and she is clearly not a fan of “Obamacare”, as she called it. As we talked, she raised several of her concerns about the future of Medicare and health care in...
View ArticleHealth Law Changes Rules For Docs With In-House Imaging Machines
Here are excerpts from a Kaiser Health News article: ….Under the new health care overhaul law, doctors who refer Medicare and Medicaid patients to in-house imaging machines must disclose in writing...
View ArticleHealth Care Reform and the IRS
From the IRS web page : The Affordable Care Act was enacted on March 23, 2010. It contains some tax provisions that take effect this year and more that will be implemented during the next several...
View ArticleStill Waiting on UnitedHealthcare; Another Un-insurable Woman; Health Care...
When you blog about big companies, they actually read it. A UnitedHealthcare representative called me last week to say she had been told to look into Terry’s situation, the woman about whom I wrote...
View ArticleMedicare and Insurance Agents
I have decided to write about insurance agents who work in the Medicare market because I have been critical of agents/brokers who seem more interested in making money than helping their clients. There...
View ArticleThe Future of Medicare?
Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin has given a lot of thought to the future of Medicare and how this program, which takes up 13% of the federal budget, should be shaped in the future. Ryan is one of...
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