National Healthcare?
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 Posted in Business Insurance, Health Insurance, National Healthcare, politics | No Comments »Unless your name is Chuck Nolan you've heard that our government is working to fundamentally change our healthcare system. For the past 40 years there has been a steady march towards nationalized healthcare. We are now closer than ever to ...
Two Lemonade Stands
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 Posted in National Healthcare, politics | No Comments »The kid down the block has a lemonade stand which serves 208.5 million customers and has expenses of $1.05 trillion. Your lemonade stand only serves 92.7 million customers, but has expenses of $1.35 trillion and you are in debt ...
Will EMR Give Us Tort Reform?
Monday, February 16th, 2009 Posted in Business Insurance, National Healthcare, politics | No Comments »Currently a doctor may be exposed to a malpractice suit if he overlooks something in a patient's file and the individual suffers because of it. Now imagine that the doctor is hooked up to a national electronic medical records ...
NICE?
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 Posted in National Healthcare, politics | No Comments »As part of Obama's stimulus bill, it sounds like the US is going to get its version of the UK's NICE (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) or what I call the Department of Health Care Rationing. In October 2007, ...
SCHIP Signed: Doctors Get a Pay Cut
Thursday, February 5th, 2009 Posted in Health Insurance, National Healthcare, politics | 2 Comments »Yesterday President Obama signed the 2009 reauthorization bill for the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) program. This legislation will reportedly make about 4,000,000 individuals now eligible for that taxpayer funded health coverage at a cost of $33 billion ...
Health Connector Coming to Georgia?
Monday, March 10th, 2008 Posted in Georgia Health Marketplace, Health Insurance, National Healthcare | No Comments »Senate Bill 404, promoted by Lt. Governor Casey Cagle, passed 42-12 last week. 404 would establish a health connector type plan here in Georgia. A connector is basically an on-line marketplace where individuals and groups can purchase insurance/health ...