Management Position - No Experience Necessary If you want to serve on the Board of Directors for an Obamacare Co-op, go ahead and reply. No experience is necessary. In fact, Obamacare ru... 10:11 AM 0 Read More
Turing Bus Crashes Last time we looked, Turing Pharmaceutical honcho Martin Shkreli was busy reneging on his company's promise to drastically reduce the c... 11:03 AM 0 Read More
Happy, Wonky Holidays! Heath Wonk Review co-founder and all-around enabler coordinator Julie Ferguson hosts the last edition of 2015 . Be sure not to miss her won... 7:11 AM 0 Read More
Droning on With Christmas just around the corner, 'drones' seems to be the hot item this year. I've seen some that fit in the palm of one... 11:00 AM 0 Read More
Creative Carrier Trick: RMD edition Folks with IRA, 401(k) and similar plans may be familiar with the term RMD (Required Minimum Distribution): " The amount that ... quali... 6:00 AM 0 Read More
About today's deadline As most folks know, today's the last day of Phase 1 of the 2015 Open Enrollment season. That means that, for most of us, it's the la... 10:02 AM 0 Read More
Self-promoting Agent Tricks No, not that kind, this kind: I was recently asked by a friend to help her colleague with his family's health insurance needs. The cat... 7:00 AM 0 Read More
40 years and Pfft! The HealthSpan Story " We’ve been helping Ohio families be healthier for more than 40 years " That's the claim of small-time health insurer HealthS... 12:05 PM 0 Read More
Spending Half Your Income for Affordable Health Care Did you ever imagine a day when you would be considered the upper end of middle class and yet be expected to commit half your income for he... 7:20 AM 0 Read More
Would You Like Fries With That? What happens when you take a complex product, say like health insurance, that is tendered via a legal and binding contract drafted by lawyer... 12:03 PM 0 Read More
Another CO-OP foundering As the list of failing CO-OPs continues to grow , it's beginning to seem like the model may, in fact, be fatally flawed. When the only s... 10:00 AM 0 Read More
Some additional thoughts on the ObamaTax Yesterday, we discussed the utter futility of the penalty/tax/fine/pumpkin as an inducement for folks to buy over-priced ObamaPlans vice pa... 6:00 AM 0 Read More
Mysterious Carrier Tricks: UHC edition What the heck? From email just now: " As of the end of today,12/10/15, the option to quote Bronze plans will no longer be available on... 9:53 AM 0 Read More
Still sexist after all these years So, Ms Burntwell and her minions have released the new guidelines on first-dollar preventive care services. These include: ■ Lactation ser... 6:00 AM 0 Read More
Much ado about the ObamaTax FoIB Jeff M alerts us to this terrifying news: " [H]ouseholds that opt to go without health insurance in 2016 are set to get hit with a... 10:00 AM 0 Read More
Aggregate vs Embedded: Interesting "Glitch" So the other day I was quoting a case for a family (HSA plan, natch), and ran across this rather interesting puzzler: [click to embiggen] It... 5:30 AM 0 Read More
UHC Doubles Down on Comp We noted a few weeks ago that the rocket surgeons at United Healthcare were dramatically reducing agent compensation for on-Exchange busine... 10:00 AM 0 Read More
Frustrating Carrier Trick, Resolved Last year, we signed Suzy up for a Silver plan from Humana ; she also chose to add the dental rider. This year, despite that well-known prom... 6:43 AM 0 Read More
Health Wonk Review Parade is up Peggy Salvatore hosts this week's Parade of (Wonky) Posts , covering everything from healthcare service guarantees to fun with diabetes ... 6:30 AM 0 Read More
Obamacare vs Hillarycare It's official. Obamacare has succeeded in doing exactly what Hillarycare was designed to do. Put you in healthcare jail. No choice. Thei... 4:49 AM 0 Read More
