As expected: Health care costs rise … insurance rates going up
As we told you. When you start mandating coverage and benefits, the costs to provide care will increase. As such, health care insurance premiums go up. Remember, insurance companies in most cases must...
View ArticleDemocrat Senators: Wait, there is a medical device tax in Obamacare?
If find it pretty much unacceptable, but completely normal, for 18 Democrats to “all of a sudden” realize there is a medical device excise tax of “only” 2.3 percent in the Affordable Health Care Act....
View ArticleHeartbreaking: Deaf twins choose death after learning they are going blind
It would be terrible to hear 45-year old deaf twins committed suicide by hanging or jumping to their death after learning they were both going blind, but to hear this euthanasia/suicide was...
View ArticleObamacare to become more expensive
Luckily, Obamacare has now been passed so we can see what is in it. But, the picture just keeps getting worse. As we know, Chicago is virtually broke, and it’s long term pension obligations are...
View ArticleDo you have employer sponsored coverage? Take a look at box DD on 2012 W-2
Part of the Obamacare legislation was a requirement employers who provide/sponsor health coverage let employees know how much they are dishing out for your health care insurance. You might be...
View ArticleAnother Obamacare tax
We have posted about this before, but, a caller to Jim’s show on Thursday, prompts another look. The caller explained that his W-2 (as does everyone else who has employer provided health insurance) now...
View ArticlePhysician shortage in California leads lawmakers to consider new definition...
More than three years ago, this website told you about the physician shortage that would be coming and we’re starting to see reaction from states as the problem becomes noticeable. California is...
View ArticleYet more Obamacare casualties
Yesterday, Universal Studios, the Orlando theme park, announced that beginning January 1, 2014, when Obamacare takes full effect, it will no longer provide health insurance to its part-time employees....
View ArticleInfo you should know: Retirement facility staff won’t help if residents have...
I’ve fallen, and I can’t get up! There is a story in the SF Gate about a nurse at a retirement facility who would not preform CPR on a resident who collapsed and had a heart attack. This is not...
View ArticleFace it: they just don’t trust you….
All this renewed talk about gun control in the wake of the Newtown murders made me realize: the liberals just don’t trust you do to much of anything on your own. Consider, if you will, a few of the...
View ArticleObamacare’s insurance subsidies
Last week the federal government issued information concerning the sign-up process for Obamacare that will begin October 1 of this year. Here are the details. [T]he health bureaucrats have quietly...
View ArticleObamacare, shortage of doctors, will lead states to give more authority to...
Back in November 2009, I pointed out an article in the Wall Street Journal about the coming physician shortage in the United States. The post noted President Obama’s health care legislation did nothing...
View ArticleAurora theater shooting: A failure directly related to our mental health system
I was speaking to Jim the other day about the reluctance of people to “get involved” with the mental health of friends and family members. Honestly, I’m guilty. It’s not a stretch to be aware of a...
View ArticleMore problems for Obamacare
Yet another snafu has cropped up in implementing Obamacare. It seems that the Secretary of Health and Human Services “unexpectedly” has run out of Obamacare money needed to implement the insurance...
View ArticleThe new and improved Obamacare enrollment form
Yesterday, the Department of Health and Human Services released yet another version(s) of the forms you must fill out to obtain insurance on the Obamacare exchanges. The original versions, “released”...
View ArticleStop connecting girls lung transplant to Obamacare and death panels
Sure, you can go ahead and relate 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan’s battle with cystic fibrosis to the disaster that is Obamacare, but in reality, the rules have been in place for years, long before...
View ArticleConnecticut stem cell grants – Directed to adult or embryonic stem cells?
I’m not comfortable with the state using tax money to fund medical research, but it is what it is. That said, why doesn’t The Hartford Courant – or the state – let us know if the $9.8 million in grant...
View ArticleLocal governments cutting part-timer’s hours as Obamacare gets close to full...
But you thought health care costs would be lower and you could still keep your doctor and health care plan? President Obama lied to you, and we told you he was not telling the truth. When you mandate...
View ArticleHalf of health care uninsured don’t know they are required to buy insurance...
Surprise! I was quite certain a significant number of the health care uninsured – a relatively small number in the US – would not know they will be required to go out and buy health care insurance on...
View ArticleObamacare too important to allow midterm elections to destroy it
When I heard the Obama administration had unilaterally delayed an important milestone in the Affordable Health Care Act, I had to chuckle. Certainly there may have been some implementation issues, but...
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