Tag: Health Insurance
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Medicare is pretty awesome
In my last post, I noted that a majority of Americans favor a single-payer health care plan over the current system. Some people though effectively do have socialized medicine already here in the United States: much of the U.S. military, veterans, the poor that can get on Medicaid and 65+ Americans like me, i.e. seniors.…
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Boy, Republicans passed one really nasty tax bill!
I mentioned recently about the audaciousness of the new tax bill expected to become law soon. Some years back I also mentioned that Republicans are basically sadists. This newest version of the bill that passed Congress this week proves Republicans have doubled down on both their bill’s audacity and its egregious sadism. I really hope…
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At the health care inflection point
Back in January I mentioned a mindful eating course I was enrolled in. A full discussion of the course is probably for another time if I think it warrants a blog post. (I’ve become pickier about what I blog about, as I post less frequently and am trying hard to make my posts more relevant…
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Medical robbery
Apparently it’s quite legal to get away with robbery in the United States, at least if you are a health care provider. I imagine the health care providers don’t see it this way when they send you threatening bills saying you owe tens, hundreds or thousands of dollars. Curiously most of us don’t know we…
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Open season on a fixed income
It’s open season time and you know what that means. For most of us it means not bothering to take the time to see if there is a better medical, dental or vision plan out there. And by “us” I definitely mean “me”, at least until this year. Although I retired in 2014, I was…
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Solving the medical forms hassle
Seven years ago, I suggested that the ubiquitous thumb drive should become our electronic wallet. You would simply plug it into the point of sale device, authorize the transaction (a PIN is acceptable, but a thumb scan would be better), and an electronic receipt would get stored on the device. The receipt could later be…
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Some ways to cut medical costs
Are we paying too much for medical treatment? Ask a physician and they would probably tell you that you are not paying enough. Ask the rest of us and we would say, “Hell yeah!” One clue that physicians may be myopic on this is to compare how much Americans pay for health care vs. other…
Occam's Razor 