The Plan Under the ACA

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…

12/13/13 Insurers Strongly Encouraged

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.…

12/5/13 And The Experts All Agree . . .

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. G.K. Chesterton Once you start with Chesterton, there is no good stopping point. The above quote will likely infuriate my many excellently educated friends. Chesterton said what he said. I will likely add to it. We will go from there…

12/4/13 THE PLAN under the ACA

I have been the recipient of some benefits under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (The ACA, also known as Obamacare). I wonder by what name I should call it now? Should I take the administration’s recent cue and revert to calling it the ACA instead of Obamacare? Should I call it the ACA…