Back in 1984 I kept having a series of strep throat issues. My doctor at the time said that I needed to have my tonsils out. I wasn’t happy with the possibility of surgery and I wasn’t a kid anymore, so I knew it wasn’t going to be easy. However, 20 days before I was [...]
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This is an editorial post from Mitch Patridge, Chairman and CEO of CSI Financial Services For American drivers, the recent spike in the price of crude oil has evoked painful memories of the summer of 2008, when the average price for regular gasoline reached an all-time high of $4.11 per gallon. What does this have [...]
By now everyone in the country knows that there’s an assault on Medicare as we know it. Just the words I used above probably tells my opinion on all of this. But a little background is necessary. Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the same state that just emasculated unions in an illegal fashion, has come [...]
At some point in your life you’re going to have to deal with a hospital bill. Hopefully you’ll have insurance to take care of the bulk of the bill, but whether you do or don’t, there are some options you have that can help you with your bill and possibly even get it taken care [...]
There’s a new Congress in Washington, and one half of that Congress is trying to emasculate the health care bill that passed last year. The House actually wasted everyone’s time by having a vote to overturn the bill and sending it to the Senate in a move that was ceremonial than productive, since they knew [...]
Last February I wrote an article here titled Are You Sure You Don’t Want National Health Care Coverage? At that time, I was alluding to the fact that in California an insurance company had put in a bid to raise insurance premiums 39%, and how another one was looking to raise it’s rate 346%. This [...]
Almost a year ago I wrote a post titled How To Mess Up A Health Care Bill. One of my main points in that post was talking about how people who didn’t get health care coverage yet didn’t qualify for something like Medicaid would end up paying out of pocket costs that they probably couldn’t [...]
