From the P&C Files: Unclear on the concept

Um...   [Hat Tip: mir&uh ]

Interesting Accidental Carrier Trick

With networks getting skinnier and skinnier , receiving emergency care out-of-network is becoming a bigger and bigger challenge. Most plans ...

NAHU *almost* gets it

Full Disclosure: I was a member of the National Association of Health Underwriters (NAHU) for many years and was, in fact, co-founder of my...

Privatizing CanuckCare©

We've written about the Canadian health care system many times over the years. It's "free," which means that one gets wha...

UHC Folds, Anthem Stands Pat?

As we saw this morning , UHC continues to exit the Marketplace in state after state. Which should be a pretty strong signal of unsustainabi...

Too good *not* to post

Unvetted from the web: I've reached out to Mr Alameddine in an effort to ascertain from whence he obtained his screenshot. It's not...

UH C You Later - UPDATED

Add Iowa and Kentucky to the list of casualties - that makes 26 out of 34. UPDATED MAP BELOW The shake up of the individual market begins. O...

"Junior" Fights Back: Tales from the MVNHS©

Earlier this year, we reported that " junior doctors" employed by the Much Vaunted National Health System© had engaged in a pretty...

Obama Signature Legislation and Legacy

Will Obama's legacy be the end of the best health care system in the world? This president's experiment in fascism may well go down ...

Top o'The Week LinkFest

■ Despite the best (?) efforts of its proponents, ObamaPlan enrollment continues to crater: " More than 1 million ObamaCare exchange c...

More O'Care Lies

We all fondly recall President Obama's pledge that rates would decrease 3000% , right? Well - and you may want to sit down for this - tu...

Passover 5776/2016

In case you were wondering: Chag Pesach Sameyach! [ Hat Tip: David Williams ]

Stossel Nails It

First, r'fua shleima to Mr Stossel: " I write this from the hospital. Seems I have lung cancer ." The post highlights some of...

Springtime Health Wonk Review

Peggy Salvatore hosts this week's innovative collection of health care wonkery. From Big Pharma to Grandthered ObamaPlans to a video on...

Medical Fee Schedule: Explained

David Williams from Health Business Blog has some questions about how the medical world comes up with its fee schedules . Specifically, he w...

Obamacare Repealed and Replaced

At first I thought Obamacare would never become law. I was wrong. Then I decided, OK, we have this mess, but it will never make it. Wrong ag...

Nice, but "D'Uh!"

Pretty much been the plan all along: " MLR provision causing ‘disincentive’ to sell health insurance " So says Palmetto State Sena...

Stupid Premier Health Tricks (Part 2)

As noted previously , Premier Health Plans has an unnecessarily confusing and, to be frank, barely functional web quoting system. To get a ...

Insurance GIGO

That's an old computer term meaning " Garbage In, Garbage Out ;" that is, if your program or data is faulty, the results you g...

Fee for Service Insurance

So, with more and more carriers cutting health insurance commissions , the idea of a fee-based model becomes more and more attractive. Here...

Frustrating Carrier Tricks: Premier Health edition

One of our local hospital chains recently (last couple of years) set up its own health insurance company . As is typical with these kinds of...

Speaking of (ObamaCare) Spikes

" If you like your plan ..." Wait, what? [Hat Tip: Larry Levitt ]

Tuesday LinkFest

■ Believe it or not, the 404Care.gov site isn't the only fraudulent thing that affects our financial and personal health. Robert Malove ...

Wonky Blabermouths

But in a very nice way: Join David Harlow, Joe Paduda and special guest stars for this week's vidcast highlighting select posts from la...

Exchange (In)Security Alert

We've long chronicled the terrible security hole that is the ObamaTax Marketplace ( most recently here ). But wait, it gets better wors...

More bad news about Obamacare Co-Ops - Part CCIX

“ Eight of the 11 remaining Obamacare health insurance co-ops appear likely to fail this year ” Read the whole article.  You’ll be better in...

Sci-Fi insurance

About 4 years ago, we blogged on the (fictional) financial impact of the Avengers' New York battle . That post looked at how all the dam...

Medical Tourism Gone (Horribly) Wrong

It's been a while since we've covered Medical Tourism , but this one's a doozy. For folks just tuning in, Medical Tourism is (ba...

Preezy-free Health Wonk Review

Our good friend Jaan Sidorov hosts this week's compilation of wonky links, blissfully free of primary-related politics. What it does h...

HSA Death Knell: Premature?

Earlier this week, I blogged on a National Review article that predicted the imminent demise of HSA's (Health Savings Accounts). I agre...

Hey DOI, Where'$ The Money?

Insurance agents make their living from the commissions that they earn on policies they sell. Those commissions are "baked into the cak...

HSA's in the Crosshairs

Apparently, Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) - or at least some versions of them - died last month: " [F]inal regulations published on Ma...

In$ult to Injury

So this came in the morning email: " Under OH law, insurance carriers are required to pay an appointment renewal fee of $45 every year ...

Monday O'Care news

■ California dreamin' - of health insurance: " A number of people who have signed up for Covered California coverage have been dump...

IRS vs [REDACTED]

As we've mentioned over and over ( and over ) again, these nifty little "schemes" that purport to enable employers to pay for...

Fridays 1,000 Words on O'Care

Courtesy of FoIB Holly R:

Cutting edge insurance cover

Don't miss the disclaimer at the end....

Friday Health Links

■ Bwahahaha! " Long term vegetarianism can lead to genetic mutations which raise the risk of heart disease and cancer, scientists have ...