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The financial balancing act is proving to be a tricky one for many Americans right now. With the general cost of living in the US continuing to soar as a result of the country’s subprime crisis and the recent global financial downturn, you’ll need to be prudent about making savings wherever possible. If you set [...]
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 [...]
I predict you’re going to be seeing more of this type of thing over the next year, and it’s probably about time. There’s a battle going on in the lower New York state area between Empire Blue Cross and a hospital group calling itself the Stellaris Health Network, which is a joint venture of four [...]
I have to tell you, these days I’m getting more wary about the insurance people I talk to, including the people who supposedly represent me. Sometimes I’m just not sure what they’re saying, or whether I believe them to be representing me more than they’re representing themselves. Here’s my story. Since 1997, after I got [...]
Health care took a major beating last year in this country. Sure, I understand that the first thing the President should have concentrated on is the economy, most specifically jobs. I also understand what his position was on health care. I don’t know that either he or the Democrats in Congress explained well enough what [...]
Did you think we were done talking about health care? A report came out this week saying that, on average, Medicare Advantage plans across the country had gone up an average of 14.2% over the past year. Although my first response is “yawn”, because I’m used to seeing those kinds of jumps o a regular [...]