We all know that health insurance can lock you into a job. You don’t dare switch companies or start your own business unless you know that you can get coverage at a price you can afford.
What probably haven’t thought about is that retiree group health insurance can also lock you into the city where you’re [...]
Posts Tagged ‘health insurance reform’
- What health insurance reform will do for you, starting this year
- POSTED 03.21.10
It’s a historic day for health care in America. The House will pass the Senate bill and the President will sign. The reconciliation effort–odds and ends of the House and Senate compromise–still has to run some roadblocks in the Senate, but soon we’ll have a national program for covering the uninsured. The major provisions don’t [...]
- COBRA hates you
- POSTED 01.4.10
McLatchy reports on a man who lost his COBRA health insurance because he accidentally underpaid his November bill by 2 cents. He sent the pennies but it ultimately took an inquiry by the Miami Herald to get him reinstated. COBRA doesn’t give you a grace period. If you pay late, you’re cut off in the [...]
- Finally, one Republican Senator gets it right about health care
- POSTED 12.28.09
Read excerpts from this inspiring talk about health-care reform, by Connecticut’s Republican ex-Senator and governor, Lowell Weicker. He puts the moral case for reform better than anything else I’ve seen for many months.
Weicker still has his Senate health insurance. It covers himself, his wife and his disabled son for some $300-plus a month. “So, [...]
- Another good reason to pass the health-care bill
- POSTED 12.20.09
The bill proposed in the Senate would require health insurance companies to spend a least 85 percent of each of your premium dollars on medical care. Right now, most insurers spend less than that, especially for people with individual or small- group coverage. As little as 64 percent of the premiums you pay might actually [...]
