insurance

When failure is achievement

To remind us how little they really know about health insurance the Obama Admin decided to brag about a failure thinking they did well; <blockquote class="tr_bq">"<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/11/us/politics/sebelius-resigning-as-health-secretary.html?_r=1" target="_blank">White House officials were quick to point out the many successes during Ms. Sebelius’s tenure: the end to pre-existing conditions as a bar to insurance</a>"</blockquote>In the dark ages prior to ACA an individual could buy an insurance policy any time they like. No matter the month if you wanted insurance you could buy it. If you waited till you were sick you might pay more. A very small group of people were denied or had to enroll in high risk pools. But 85 to 90% of the population could buy any time they liked. Now that ACA is in place and open enrollment closed unless you have a qualifying event you can't buy insurance no matter what, and that applies to 100% of the population. That is progress under the Obama Administration.

When failure is achievement

To remind us how little they really know about health insurance the Obama Admin decided to brag about a failure thinking they did well; ...

6:39 PM

Breaking: Oy!

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20071211072657/oz_/images/4/4a/Movie_Wicked_Witch.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="103" src="http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20071211072657/oz_/images/4/4a/Movie_Wicked_Witch.JPG" width="140" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">HHS Secretary Shecantbeserious is resigning: "<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/04/10/hhs-secretary-kathleen-sebelius-resigning/%20" target="_blank">Sebelius leaves the administration after the tumultuous launch of the Affordable Care Act exchanges last fall. Despite calls for her ouster from Republicans at the time, she stayed on until the enrollment period ended at the end of March</a>." That;s the good news. Now the bad: "White House budget office director Sylvia Matthews Burwell [will] replace the outgoing secretary" Hmmm. Burwell. What to do, what to do....</div>

Breaking: Oy!

HHS Secretary Shecantbeserious is resigning: " Sebelius leaves the administration after the tumultuous launch of the Affordable Care Ac...

5:20 PM

Ms Kathy has Sgt Schultz Syndrome

Ms Kathy has Sgt Schultz Syndrome

Just a reminder that, two weeks after the (ostensible) end of Open Enrollment, Ms Shecantbesrious still can't (or won 't) say how ma...

1:56 PM

Obamacare Regulates Doctor Profit Margins

Here's one I bet you didn't know.  <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaufncUSgPZ1oIRZ17mNVmXU9gTpC0oyf2qvODdTUOhv2hOvT1DUWQeh2H0tTWf84pnVJCiEPI1UiH3isS-DFsgrHUZ4L49vomgq9uAqO6V_hA5lqYJA6NN4TlFxuteGOsT9imWRKfxjs/s1600/anthony+wright.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaufncUSgPZ1oIRZ17mNVmXU9gTpC0oyf2qvODdTUOhv2hOvT1DUWQeh2H0tTWf84pnVJCiEPI1UiH3isS-DFsgrHUZ4L49vomgq9uAqO6V_hA5lqYJA6NN4TlFxuteGOsT9imWRKfxjs/s1600/anthony+wright.jpg" /></a></div> A key provision in Obamacare requires doctors to spend at least 80% of their gross revenue on patient care, leaving them 20% for overhead. It seems that the onerous <a href="http://insureblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/how-much-did-that-rebate-cost-you.html" target="_blank">MLR rules</a> for carriers also apply to physician practices. <blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Some doctors say they need to charge the extra fees because of the rising costs of running a practice. Some even cite the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, as adding to their costs.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Anthony Wright, of the consumer watchdog group Health Access California, says that reason doesn’t fly.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The Affordable Care Act has another provision that puts a limit on how much your premium can be spent on patient care, rather than administration and profit. So, again, having an outside fee that is for administration is in violation in the spirit of the law, which is to try to limit the amount of money that’s spent on administration profit, and really target those dollars towards patient care,” Wright said.</blockquote><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/04/10/knx-1070-report-more-calif-doctors-illegally-charging-insured-patients-extra-fees/" target="_blank">CBS Local</a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">It's on the internet, therefore it must be true.</div>