Cleveland Special

As in "Special Event," and specifically Special Event Insurance , about which we first wrote 9½ years ago: " World Furniture ...

From the P&C Files: Fully Automatic Insurance Tricks

Back in Aught Seven, we noted the passing of "Evel" Knievel, whose life previous to stuntsmanship included a stint as a very succ...

O'Care at 6: Fewer, Sicker, Costlier

Yeah, about bending that cost curve. Something sure got bent: " Consumers who signed up for Blue Cross Blue Shield health plans throug...

Silly HSA Tricks

Over at LifeHealthPro, Michael Thomas reports on new legislation being proposed that seeks to update Health Savings Accounts. He does a gr...

On "Losing" a Client

So I lost a client yesterday, and that's a good thing. I wrote Sue's health insurance a year or so ago; her husband's on Medica...

Monday LinkFest

■ First up, seven (just seven??) ways The ObamaTax has let us down. A sampling : " 1. Low enrollment. Many people would not have jumped...

A Piping Hot Cup of ObamaCare

[Hat Tip: Ʀєfùsєηíκ]

When will they learn?

Of course, that question pre-supposes that ObamaTax proponents want to learn, of which there is scant evidence. What makes me so skeptical?...

Interesting point

Work: If you miss work you must have a doctor's excuse! Me: I just have a stomach bug. Work: MANDATORY! Work: Why is insurance so costly...

Waste, Fraud and Abuse CMS Style

Politicians love to talk about how they will eliminate waste, fraud and abuse if you will only elect them to office. If you are one of those...

Health Wonk Review: ObamaTax Anniversary Edition

Charles Gaba makes his (impressive) hosting debut with this week's informative roundup of health care policy and policy. His very sly (...

Joe Garagiola 1926 - 2016

Baseball is a funny game. But not today.

Happy ObamaTax-iversary!

In case you'd forgotten (heh!), today marks the 6th anniversary of the date on which ObamaCare began to be implemented. 'Nuff said...

PARE-ing Back?

Our friend Louise Norris has written about the issue of balance billing, and advocates its (eventual) eradication. While she's a very t...

Unusual Definition: Success

ObamaTax proponents like to tout its success in reducing the number of uninsured (using dubious metrics). The first problem with this, of co...

Apple Ooopsies

Runh ro: I guess if I was this company called CareKit I'd be hoping for a big check from Apple https://t.co/Axf9LSeWQz https://t.co/i5B...

Outstanding Customer Service Tricks

Every once in a while, we run into an extraordinary customer service experience, and appreciate the opportunity to publicize it . So often i...

Hey, it's only (your) money

The folks at Guarantee Trust Life send along this helpful chart showing that even with (because of ?) those shiny new ObamaPlans, folks are...

Silly Section 125 Tricks

Sigh. So yesterday, I got a call from a gentleman pushing a " very special Section 125 program " that basically wrapped a limited ...

Mid-week Potpourri

■ First up, Rich W warns that the new ObamaTax numbers are a lot more dangerous than we've been led to believe: " [O]nly about 28 ...

Self-service writ large

A while back, we noted with some disgust that "[t]he number of foreigners traveling to Switzerland to commit assisted suicide doubled o...

MVNHS© claims another one

It's almost as if nationalized health care schemes are designed to kill off their intended beneficiaries: 22-year-old dies of rare canc...

More (bad) trainwreck news

As we mentioned at the end of January, Open Enrollment v3.0 was pretty much doomed from the start: " About 6 million people have signed...

Sausage making at the MVNHS©

There's an old saying: " Laws are like sausages: Better not to see them being made ." This seems to apply to how (at least one...

Hey, it's only (YOUR) money!

A month or so ago, we noted that it costs taxpayers " $50,000 for every person who gets health insurance under the Obamacare law ."...

Health Wonk Review is up

David Williams hosts this week's collection . Note: This edition is rather heavy-handed on the politics. Be forewarned.

Ducking the MVNHS©

As we noted a few weeks ago , many (most?) countries with national healthcare schemes also have robust private insurance markets. For the ...

Clawbacks and fees, Oh my!

As we've mentioned before, more than a few folks who were initially eligible for ObamaPlan premium subsidies subsequently become in elig...

From the "No Kidding" Files

Courtesy of FoIB Holly R, we learn that making health care more convenient doesn't necessarily make it any less expensive. " Bendi...

Interesting SEP news

Open Enrollment v3.0 is fading quickly from the rearview, which means that you'll need to come up with a valid reason to trigger a Speci...

MVNHS© Plays Grim Reaper

At first glance, this concept appears to have some merit: " Mothers of children with fatal defects will have the option to give birth....

Another 1,000 Words on PPACA

Remember when The ObamaTax was going to "bend the cost curve down?" Good times, good times. [Hat Tip: A M Bes t]

1,000 Words (Give or Take)

Note well how the various age cohorts are clustered: very heavily skewed towards the more claims-prone older ages, very few in the crucial...

Wednesday LinkFest, FoIB edition

■ As we've noted , the issue of agent compensation (commissions) for writing new Obamaplans has become quite the issue. More than a few ...