As of late, with monumental Supreme Court ruling opinions and dissenting opinions, there is an over-abundance both of reasons to opine and opinions themselves. They flit about like gnats on a windless summer night; aggravating, most are too small to successfully swat, leaving one with no sense of satisfaction like one might feel upon seeing…
Jonathan Gruber. “I don’t know who he is,” said Nancy Pelosi, recently. “You meant to say Hans Gruber,” someone said. “No. Jonathan Gruber, not Hans Gruber. Hans Gruber is the bad guy, John McClain’s nemesis, in the movie Diehard,” someone offered. “Well, they seem a lot alike to me,” was the reply, “Only Hans knew…
This month is the 6th anniversary of the unknown infection that put me in the hospital for a week. Mainmost (one of my long-time physicians) failed to find any specific thing wrong, but after a week of non-stop testing and IV antibiotics, I improved enough for them to let me go home, having had, they…
After my hospital adventure with the kidney stone, I return home on Tuesday, April 22, pain medicine in hand, to wait it out until I went to see Uroman, my long-time urologist, on Friday the 25th. He knows me well and is a friend as well as my physician. He has always been helpful, lays…
Understanding health insurance and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is as complicated as a Chinese typewriter. But, I admit it. I have benefited from the ACA in spite of my previous lamentations. I have written many times about the frustration with my health insurance, presenting fictitious dialogs with Plan Admin, the name I gave to…
The President has worked hard to sell the ACA to folks that don’t want it, particularly those who aren’t really interested in paying higher than actuarial prices for insurance they don’t particularly need to underwrite those who do. This wealth transfer system is not very attractive. But the President has worked so hard to sell…
In an effort to undo all the damage of cancelled policies the administration “strongly encouraged” insurers to comply with requests that these substandard insurance policies be reinstated. Many of those “bad-apple” insurers having spent much time and money to comply with the ACA, which is, as we have been reminded so many times, “the law…
Let me get this straight. In the continuing effort to fix things, Health and Human Services (HHS) has strongly encouraged insurers to do the following things: 1. Pay claims for folks who have not yet purchased health insurance by paying their premiums. 2. Treat out-of-network health care providers as if they were in network. 3.…
You young invincibles…your unwillingness to sign up for insurance under the ACA is a sure sign of your moral failure, since it is the morally right thing for you to do. Any reluctance on your part is an obvious indication of your lack of morality. Have you stopped and considered that? Older, sicker folks need…
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion. Winston Churchill Opinions are like love bugs on a humid July evening. They flit about aimlessly on their brief amorous adventures, only to find themselves mashed against your windshield about the same time they find a mate. I don’t think anything…
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