A state insurance program that initially denied coverage for an Iowa County woman's lung transplant says it reversed itself after review...
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Here We Go Again . . .
A grass-roots group of Madison-area residents wants the city to require employers to provide health insurance through a mandated fee, but t...
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Nattering Naysayers...
Since consumer driven health care, and especially HSA’s, tend to be a focus here at InsureBlog, such plans also tend to draw a lot of fire. ...
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Hearts & Kidneys...
If you gave your beloved a candy heart yesterday, you've been one-upped: And you thought your Valentine's Day gift was generous
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The Cost of Care
Health care, and insurance to cover the cost of that care, is a popular topic for debate. It has been debated, sometimes heatedly, in this f...
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Consumer Driven or Managed Consumers?
“Bottom line it for me.” “Put it on the backburner.” “Think outside the box.” Every industry has its own jargon, its own clichés. And of cou...
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Money Monday
The Carnival of Personal Finance is up and running at The Dividend Guy ’s blog. Frugal for Life has some great tips on what kind of docume...
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“Survey says…”
Apropos of nothing, really, but I came across this on the web: “ Dr. Aaron Fine, the head of Israel's Tatzpit polling agency told Arutz-...
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Old Post - New Update...
Almost a year ago, we discussed a new health insurance initiative from a coalition of large employers. It was supposed to help part-time wo...
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The Sky is Falling 2.11
According to John McCarron you can say goodbye to employer provided, group health insurance if the Bush administration gets their way. OK, ...
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I Just Couldn't Resist . . .
Medical Insurance Explained Q. What does HMO stand for? A. This is actually a variation of the phrase, "HEY MOE." Its roots go bac...
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Look Before You Leap...
We’ve all seen them, plastered on telephone poles, flooding our email, jamming our fax machines: Save on Health Care! Alternative to Expensi...
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Carnival Time!
You'll find this week's Grand Rounds at Science and Politics . Host Bora Zivkovic's mini-bio is a hoot! This week's edition...
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The Sky is Falling! (Part 2)
Many years ago, the then-President of Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Ohio (now Medical Mutual) published a little tome warning that MSA’s would b...
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Travel Advisory
Recently, some folks planning a trip to Israel applied for life insurance, and were turned down. Now, it does happen that some people are de...
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The Sky is Falling 1.2
Not wanting to steal any of the Professor’s thunder, but just wanted to get something off my chest. OK, so maybe you don’t care. That’s OK. ...
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Gee, We Were Only Kidding!
Remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown would attempt to kick a football that Lucy was holding? Charlie would run hard at the ball...
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Hey Doc, let me get back to ya on that . . .
“Attention BigMart shoppers! For the next 20 minutes we are running a special on Erythromycin in aisle six. In addition, the first 10 shoppe...
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