Forget Obamacare Glitches. Here’s What You Need To Do
Some Americans are putting their health insurance needs on the back burner until the media reports all Obamacare website glitches are gone. Whether that keeps you away or not, here are 5 things you can do right now to secure the best healthcare options for you, your family or your business. 1. Find out if the State you live in runs its own healthcare website. Not all States are using the federal government’s website (healthcare.gov). In fact, only 27 States are using the federal marketplace. The...
Read MoreIs Healthcare Reform the Real Answer?
As critics and supporters of Obamacare anxiously await the implementation of a new health insurance marketplace, little is know for sure about it’s overall effect on the costs associated with an illness or injury. Supporters assure us that the Affordable Care Act will result in lower health insurance premiums and deductibles. Critics are quick to refute that and point to additional costs imposed on insurance companies to provide more coverage, deal with new taxes on pharmaceuticals, and the possibility of...
Read MoreBringing Back The House Call
Sometimes it’s hard to get to the doctor. Maybe you are too busy taking care of everything but your health. Maybe you just can’t take off another day at work. Maybe you don’t feel like sitting in the emergency room on a Sunday afternoon or packing up all the kids to sit and wait. Or maybe you are a college student away at school and feel too sick to leave your dorm room or know that a trip to the infirmary often means a lengthy wait that can interfere with classes. Telemedicine can be the...
Read MoreSurprise Medical Bills
It’s hard to admit, but I am old enough to remember a time when a trip to the doctor meant a payment in full before leaving the physician’s office. Back then, many of us only had health insurance for hospital stays and didn’t expect to use it unless we had some sort of catastrophe. Well times sure have changed. Now we use our insurance plans for every possible healthcare encounter. We do our best to insure that our physicians are in our “network” and hope our medications are...
Read MoreWho Needs Money?
It seems like every time I read the news there is another story about someone in financial trouble because of a sickness or injury. These are good people. These are folks like you and me; working hard to take care of themselves and their families. Most recently, I read an article about a school teacher who was diagnosed with cancer. The story didn’t focus on her illness as much as the difficulty and wait time she endured trying to get social security disability payments. Her illness presents many challenges...
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