Depending on who you ask, insurance company mergers will either help or hurt consumers. Whether a merger in general is a good or a bad thing is debatable. The problem today is that there …
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Obamacare Deadline: December 23
If you haven't already enrolled in Obamacare but want to be covered by January 1, you need to take a look at your state's exchange before December 23. For those of you who are still uncertain that the …
What Is An Insurance Death Spiral? Could It Bring Down Obamacare?
Articles are popping up everywhere about the "insurance death spiral". Many analysts predict the death spiral will destroy our new Obamacare health plan. So what is this ominous death spiral? Is there …
What Happens If I Don’t Buy Obamacare Coverage?
While most uninsured Americans are aware that the failure to purchase Obamacare will cost you a fee (or as the Supreme Court calls it, a tax), most of us don't know how that fee is calculated - or …
Obamacare Premium Calculator
I've just discovered a very handy and user-friendly Obamacare premium calculator. You can calculate your premiums based on California residency or using a general "National" calculator. Of course, …
Obamacare Has Arrived. How Should We Feel?
In case you have been living under a rock, Obamacare (aka the Affordable Care Act) launched two days ago. This ground-breaking alteration to American medical care has been subject to both lavish …
More Doctors Are Dropping Insurance Altogether
This past Saturday in Minneapolis, a group of doctors held an innovative conference on how to run their medical practices without insurance. According to ABC News, this trend of ditching insurance …
Insurance Movie “Sicko” – Did it Cause Obamacare?
Sicko is more “insurance documentary” than movie. Narrated by Michael Moore - a well-known (and controversial) producer, director, and writer - Sicko chronicles the medical insurance system of the …