Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen
How state and local governments are responding to ObamaCare: Cities, counties, public schools and community colleges around the country have limited or reduced the work hours of part-time employees to avoid having to provide them with health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
Personal Health Information breaches up 138% in 2013.
Loophole in health law may put Medi-Cal patients’ assets at risk.
Employer-based health insurance will soon be a thing of the past, thank God. Group insurance is dead. It’s now just a matter of TIME. Soon employers will realize that paying $10,000/year per employee for health insurance is insane when the government is happy to pick up the tab with subsidies. It’s an IQ test for employers.
We have come a long way in healthcare reform since I wrote the 1st tax-free MSA (HSA) in 1996 with an 1/1/1997 Effective Date. The NCPA’s History of MSAs and HSAs is wrong. I did not write the 1st MSA with Golden Rule. They were much too slow to market so I used America’s oldest health insurance company TIME Insurance Company, owned by Fortis at the time.
No one has ever lost their health insurance because of me enrolling them into a group plan with the evil eligibility requirements which makes employees lose their insurance when they become too sick to work 30 hours per week. Why, because I have never sold a group plan in my life. Dr Goodman puts his own employees on an employer-based plan so he can’t say that nobody has ever lost their insurance because of that evil eligibility requirement like I can.
Hey, the Bronze Plan qualifies for a tax-free HSA and the so-called Father of HSAs has not wrote about them this year, what’s the deal here. I guess Dr. Goodman is too busy bashing the President who is making Group Health Plans just a bad memory, figures.
If you don’t have health insurance you better hurry because the 3/31/2014 cut-off date is at hand. Will people even be able to purchase Individual Medical (IM) in the land of the free after that date?
Shouldn’t there be someone whose entire job is to explain the ACA numbers to Obama? How can he not understand them?
It’s kind of a fuzzy line. The biggest problem Kessler has is Obama claiming the ACA provides access to those who didn’t have it. The number he’s using includes those who had access, but not health care.
Isn’t that a bit nitpicky?
He’s the President of the United States. He has teams to nitpick. He, of all, should get it right.
“Avalere, a health consulting firm, in a recent analysis raised serious questions about the 6.3 million Medicaid figure, estimating that only 1.1 million to 1.8 million of the claimed enrollees could be attributed to the Affordable Care Act.”
So, 7 million versus 1-2 million. Doesn’t sound nitpicky to me.
“Cities, counties, public schools and community colleges around the country have limited or reduced the work hours of part-time employees to avoid having to provide them with health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.”
So what happened to those 4 million jobs Nancy Pelosi promised Obamacare would create?
Personal Health Information breaches up 138% in 2013.
Oh goody. As if identify theft weren’t a problem before. And now we’re putting more and more of that information in databases and online.
“More than 7 million patient records were breached last year” – that number outright is unacceptable, but to know that it’s an increase from last year? That’s even worse.
You know what’s worse? How ill prepared we are for this: 82 percent of health IT executives in a recent survey said their technology infrastructure is “not fully prepared for a disaster recovery incident.”
Just…wow. I can’t go to the doctor, can’t go to Target without worrying about my information getting stolen
That’s just unacceptable.