Archive | Health Insurance

We are all watching, and some are experiencing, government-driven healthcare revolution. We hear and read about it daily with reports claiming both overwhelming success and the total failure of this new approach to selling and providing healthcare. While the final conclusion is not yet determined, here is an option that gets less press coverage, but has been functioning well […]

For anyone who missed the deadline to sign-up for health insurance, here is an article outlining your options for how to get health insurance now that the deadline has passed. The deadline has passed to enroll for 2014 health insurance coverage through the new state and federal exchange websites. In certain states, residents who contacted their exchange on or before March 31 will be able […]

President Obama deserves a big round of applause for the Patient Protection portion of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). However, I predict that including “Affordable Care Act” in the name will go down as one of the biggest marketing blunders of the century. This post compares the affordability of Obamacare to what […]

Today is the last day to start an application for 2014 insurance under the Obamacare laws. Todays roundup of stories starts with answering the question “are you exempt from Obamacare” laws? Being exempt means you will not owe fines if you do not secure health insurance. The following story is a report on recruiting Obamacare […]

Photo WASHINGTON — America’s health insurance marketplace closes on Monday night, the deadline for most people to obtain coverage or face a penalty. The confusion and uncertainty of the last six months appear likely to continue as consumers, including some who have never had insurance, begin using new policies […] Click here to view original […]

Posted first by NPR We’re just five days away from the March 31 deadline to sign up for individual health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. For weeks, administration officials, including the president, have insisted that there would be no extensions to the scheduled end of the six-month open enrollment period. But now there’s some […]

Amid the final frenzy for Obamacare enrollment, a new survey shows that many consumers may be ill-equipped to shop for health insurance. This was reported by the Los Angeles Times on Monday. Obamacare Shopper Confusion The study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that 42% of people surveyed could not describe […]

In a stroke of marketing genius, Obamacare was not called the “Available Care Act.” I learned this first hand when evaluating how a transition to Obamacare would impact my family. For just a moment, let’s ignore the cost of health insurance – we will cover cost in a future post – and focus on what matters […]

I began tweeting my concerns over Healthcare.gov security issues back before the Injured Money website went live. These concerns peaked in October following the Healthcare.gov launch when online security experts reported the site to be suffering from serious security vulnerabilities.  At the same time employees of both Health and Human Services (HHS) and CGI Group, […]

ObamaCare – ready or not – is the law of the land. Considering only a small percentage of Americans were impacted with the changes that took place in our healthcare laws last week, this new law has certainly been charged with emotion and garnered numerous headlines. Having read the news clips with great interest, here […]