Monthly Archives: July 2009

Politicking Health Insurance Reform

We almost never blog about opinion articles, but the recent op-ed by Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius got our attention. Not so much in the way she spoke of reform, as most of her main bullets were the same talking points we’ve already heard from the Obama Adminstration, but it was a quote made by a Republican Senator. Continue reading

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Follow GoHealthInsurance on Twitter!

To make sure we’re connected to health care and health insurance at all times in 140 characters or less, we’re now on Twitter. Continue reading

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Public Health Insurance Plan To Negotiate With Health Care Providers: What It Means

Yesterday, the conservative Blue Dog Democrats struck a major deal in the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee in regards to the public health insurance plan proposal. Continue reading

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Abortion Looms as Next Issue in Health Insurance and Health Care Reform

While Rep. Henry Waxman, Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, and the moderate “Blue Dog” Democrats wrestle over the cost of health care reform, another storm is brewing and it’s a nasty one: the abortion issue. In a nutshell, the proposed bill doesn’t contain language prohibiting federal funding of abortion Continue reading

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Higher Risk of Obesity Linked To Health Insurance

What? How can you possible link something like obesity to health insurance? Is that insinuating health insurance is some kind of health risk factor? Not exactly Continue reading

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UK Health Insurance- From the Cradle to the Queue

Health and Wealth! Isn’t that what eveyone drinks to? A look at UK Health Insurance and National Wealth. Britain was still reeling from World War Two when the National Health Service was launched in 1948, sweeping in an era of social change and expectation. Continue reading

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Health Insurance and Health Care Reform Now in the Hands of the House

While it’s pretty clear the Senate has foregone the August deadline, the House is still working furiously to pass legislation on health insurance and health care. Continue reading

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Mortgage insurance – why be vulnerable?

Burgesses Insurance News has published an interesting article today looking at the rationale behind the purchasing of insurance as a protection vehicle, and questions why the public are disinterested and can’t be bothered when it comes to purchasing Mortgage Protection for the largest investment of all – a house!……….. It it just that the public doesn’t appreciate the risks? Until it is too late… Continue reading

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Health Insurance and Health Care Reform Won’t Meet August Deadline

Malcolm Smith, the Senate’s top Democrat, conceded yesterday that the chamber won’t pass an overhaul of health care and health insurance by August. In a townhall meeting that same day, President Obama accepted this fact, as long as he sees “folks working diligently and consistently,” reports The Wall Street Journal Continue reading

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President Obama Addresses The Nation in Primetime On Health Insurance and Health Care Reform

Last night, President Obama held a press conference in primetime to address all concerns about the health care and health insurance reform bills that are being drafted in both Houses of Congress. The first reactions from news analysts and political pundits was that the president didn’t offer much clarity on what was to come and left many of the critical details, such as how we were going to pay for it all, more or less up in the air. But if you don’t listen the political pundits, this press conference was probably nothing short of a success for the president. What most pundits never talk about is the fact that the average American doesn’t pay attention to them at all. Continue reading

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