Geronimo Jones believed that he’d been abducted by aliens, but his delusions didn’t end there. He went so far as to call a California Health Insurance agent to see if he’d be charged for their “very thorough” probes.
Thirty-four year old Geronimo Jones, hypochondriac and confirmed cheapskate, was lying in bed painfully pondering. He’d been
Economist state that there could have been a lot more done to help our health care deficit, for example breaking Medicare up into smaller companies and allowing health insurance competition from state to state. But that is not the solution being proposed in the reform bills. Instead congress wants to expand health care spending to an additional 50 million people in an undefined, taxpayer financed, and government run plan. The House is proposing over $900 billion in new spending. Congressional democrats are guilty of hiding the costs in the public option proposed bill. It took Medicare more than 50 years to experience deficits based on revenue losses.
Economic times are tough, so lots of people are looking for ways to save money on their health insurance. Many companies need to save money, too, and they’re shifting more of the costs of health insurance to employees. This may make group coverage more expensive for those who get coverage through their work.
Open enrollment, which is taking place now in most companies, is the perfect time to compare your group coverage with what’s available to you in an individual health plan. Start by looking at the costs, benefits and eligibility requirements of your employer’s 2010 group plan.
Larry Kowalski had been a surfer and still enjoyed swimming in the Pacific. But when it wasn’t summer, the days were depressingly shorter, and Larry asked his California Health Insurance agent Matt Lockard if his policy covered Freudian psychiatric care. As for the demise of his son’s pet turtle, that just wasn’t at the core of his sadness.
Larry loved summer. He pre
Mabel Mobry, a hippie centenarian from San Francisco, wondered if she had the freedom to get a prescription for medical marijuana under her 2010 Medicare Advantage PPO plan, so she phoned her trusted California Health Insurance agent to find out.
For a 2010 Medicare Advantage enrollment kit call Matt toll free at 1-866-861-0477
Mabel Mobry, still spry after surviving for exactly a century, pined for the days when she could get high with reckless abandon before all those Draconian blue laws gummed things up. W
In today’s economy, health care affordability is on everyone’s mind. That’s why Health Savings Account (HSA) programs are a really smart and important consumer directed health care product. Combining a qualified high deductible health plan (HDHP) and a health savings account, HSA Programs offer you major medical coverage along with tax savings and more control over your health care expenses.
It seems their popularity is growing. According to the America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) annual census of its U.S. health insurance carrier members, 8 million people were covered by HSA-qualified HDHPs in January 2009, up from 6.1 million in January 2008.