Movember: Men's Health Alert
A few weeks ago, we highlighted October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and raised $800 towards research to fight this terrible illness....
PresBo lied, Healthcare Died
The right-wingers at CNN have released a video showing - conclusively - that the goal of the ACA ObamaTax was always to destroy the prev...
Web (in)Security
Yesterday, I received the following from CoveredCA: New! iPad Online Application: Replace "HTTPS" with "HTTP" ...
GruberGate in 2 1/2 Minutes
Killing Time
Obamacare 2015 open enrollment is here. Good news is, the site seems to be working, kind of ......... Bad news? Consumers there...
Helping Sarah Kliff Solve Her Medical Bill Issue
Former WaPo Wonkblog health policy writer Sarah Kliff is a huge proponent of Obamacare and the expansion of health insurance. She's als...
My new article is up...
At Answers.com: " A Business Owners Policy offers a reasonably priced alternative to buying insurance coverage ala carte. By pre-packa...
Oh, sure - NOW they tell us!
As we've long noted, the ObamaTax Exchange sites are a veritable treasure trove of ID-theft opportunities . Turns out, though, we may...
Dabney Coleman gets...
TRAGIC Wins Shallow Victory in SHBP Battle
T.R.A.G.I.C, the teacher group we blogged about in January formed to protest #Obamacare changes to the Georgia SHBP (State Health Benefit ...
Cavalcade of Risk #223: Call for submissions
Bob Wilson hosts next week's edition. Entries are due by Monday (the 8th). To submit your risk-related post, just click here to ema...
Moving Goalposts (Again)
So it appears that erstwhile Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has conveniently forgotten the President's explicit promise to lower hea...
(No) Need to Know
Alt title: " We could tell you, but then we'd have to kill you ." The story: " [O]fficials at the Treasury Inspector Gene...
Patrick Hits the Big Time (Once Again)
Co-blogger Pat is once again featured at The Federalist, with his latest take on why rate increases are mist definitely built-in to O'...
Breaking News
This just in from the geniuses at the GAO. FLASH! As a result of Obamacare, Blue Cross expanded their market share in the majority of states...
More GruberGate Cannon-fire
As we've noted for a while , Herr Dr J Gruber has managed to talk himself into quite a corner. While making big coin (for apparently sm...
Obamacare's Bill of Goods: Subprime Insurance at Higher Costs
The ACA promised us $2500 per family savings and better benefits. The reality is we are going to pay thousands of dollars more for our care...
Helpful Thanksgiving ICD-10 Codes
As co-blogger Kelley last mentioned a couple of months ago , the "new and improved" ICD-10 codes are on the way (maybe). And just ...
"I forgot"
It's hard to beat this Steve Martin excuse: " You.. can be a millionaire.. and never pay taxes! You can be a millionaire.. and neve...
Cavalcade of Risk #222: Gratefully risky
Van Mayhall hosts the pre-Thanksgiving round-up of risk-related posts. As usual,Van does a terrific job of tying together seemingly unrel...
Sprechen sie Deutsch?
More proposed Obamacare rules to improved the customer experience. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Nov. 21 issued a massive...
Hunh: CCC's no more
Had a "d'oh!" moment when I received this in email: " [G]eneration of HIPAA Certificates of Creditable Coverage (CoCC) up...
Missing the Mark, MVNHS©-style
Last month, we questioned whether the Much Vaunted National Health System© was worth saving (assuming it could be, of course). Thanks to c...
Blast from the Past
I first became a fan of Medical Savings Accounts (since evolved to Health Savings Accounts) way back in 1992, when they were first introduce...
Chicken Soup for the Health Care Policy
We've long documented the utter failure of nationalized "health care" schemes to rein in costs any more efficiently than our p...
MVP Struggling - Part 2
A few days ago, we broached the subject of Minimum Value Plans, and their potential role in mitigating group health insurance costs. In that...
Cavalcade of Risk #222: Call for submissions
Van Mayhall hosts next week's edition. Entries are due by Monday (the 24th). To submit your risk-related post, just click here to em...
Close enough for gummint work
So it seems that, as we'd already surmised , the reports of how many people actually bought ObamaPlans were, well, less than truthy: &qu...
Unintentional Medical Tourism
Before we begin, it's important to note that there's a LOT of information missing here. Of course, that hasn't stopped folks fro...
Health Wonk Review: Gobble, gobble edition
David Harlow presents a veritable brain-feast , replete with interesting, thought-provoking posts and mouth-watering illustrations. Enjoy!
MVP Struggling - Part 1
Minimum Value (aka MVP) Plans have been touted for groups over 100 (this year, and 50 next year) wishing to meet the letter of the ObamaTax ...
Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner!
So a colleague recently clued me in to a way that the free market is responding to the new reality of an Obamacare-dominated health insuranc...
The Gruber Hits The Fan
You knew this was coming, right? " In Jon Gruber's Newest (Sixth) Video, He Explains How Obama and Democrats Conspired to Get Rid ...
HIX Predix
I have a few predictions about tomorrow morning: ■ The sun will rise in the east ■ Water will be wet ■ The 404Care.gov site will be broken W...
Up-Lyfting Update
Last week, we noted car-sharing service Lyft's first passenger fatality , and pondered the insurance implications thereof. Since this si...
Peanut Butter and Chocolate
You got feckless, clueless punditry in my O'Care deceit lectures. No! You got O'Care deceit lectures in my feckless, clueless pun...
Now Playing: HIX (Health Insurance Exchange)
Interesting video primer on how the Exchanges (are supposed to) work:
Three Strikes, Herr Gruber....
If you've been following the saga of Jonathan " Fredo " Gruber, you know he's on record for speaking his mind calling th...
Cavalcade of Risk #221: Post-election round-up edition
Claire Wilkinson hosts this week's collection of post-election risk-related bloggetry. From upcharges for where you shop to high wir...
Obamacare's House of Cards
Did you know almost 25% of individual health insurance premiums paid for exchange plans go directly to taxes and fees? Did you know that you...
O'Care Potpourri
■ In keeping with the politically correct stance of providing vital services convenience items for women, but not for men , Medical Mutual ...
Bastiat & Graboyes: The Legend Continues
Frédéric Bastiat , a noted 19th-century polemicist, is most widely-known for the Parable of the Broken Window (widely regarded as the underl...
Not Ready for (Sub-)Prime Time
So I spent a great deal of yesterday afternoon on the phone with the friendly - if hapless - folks at 404Care.gov. Turns out, one of my &quo...
Great Expectations
It appears that Exchange enrollment for Obamacare isn't going to be what it was cracked up to be. Back in 2011 CMS released released the...
Obamacare Moments of Honesty
Rep. Pelosi infamously said "We had to pass the bill in order to know what was in it". Now the truth serum is administered to Jona...