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 [...]

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 [...]

You’d think that at this point all conversations about the health care bill would be over. Seems that the discussions are just beginning, and there are two big issues that suddenly are garnering a lot of attention. The first is the new requirement that kicks in come 2012. It requires any business or person that [...]

You never know where you’re going to find good information. On a blog called But You’re A Girl written by a young lady named Adria Richards was the video I’m posting below that addresses just what’s in the new health care bill, or at least the Senate version. It’s pretty good, and it’s easier to [...]

The final financial post of 2009 for Top Finance Blog, and I thought it would be interesting to see what the best and the worst financial news of the year was. There was way more bad news than good news, and to answer the question of which one we want to address first, let’s get [...]