Category: Health and Wellness

20 Years On: How We Managed and Learned from the Horrible Tragedy of Hurricane Katrina

It was one very weird August in 2005, let me tell you.

My wife and I, plus our three kids, had just moved into a new house in northeast Ascension Parish. I can clearly remember  walking through it (we had been living in an apartment during construction). Even with everything we owned already moved in, it felt really BIG. And empty.

“We’ll never fill this place up!” I remember thinking. Have I ever been more wrong. Read more

Category: Health and Wellness

Louisiana Blue Continues to Study Medical Marijuana

My longtime Straight Talk readers may remember that just a few years ago, we were discussing medical marijuana. I gave you the Straight Talk on the latest state and federal developments on when medical marijuana is permitted, went over some of the pros and cons, and described many of the unknowns (and there were plenty!) that must be factored into making something like cannabis use covered by your health insurance. Read more

Category: Health Insurance

How Louisiana Blue Protects Your Healthcare Access

When I was a young boy growing up in Morgan City in the 1960s, there was an event I really looked forward to every year. My dad (the Straight Talk founder) worked for an oil company, and every year they would host a company picnic. Two picnics in a row, actually, since most of their workers were offshore seven days, then home seven days. The double picnics gave everyone a chance to attend. So on consecutive Saturdays in May, the company would have picnics, and I got to go to BOTH of them! Read more