Category: Health Insurance

Part 3: The End of the Healthcare World as We Know It

And Mike doesn’t feel fine. Read more

We’ve told you in the past how we spend your money — in 2015 — and now we’re back, traveling the healthcare trail to explain how we spent each cent of your premium dollar in 2019. Read more

Two weeks ago in Straight Talk, I gave you the background of the Individual health insurance marketplace. As you recall, it began in the United States in 2013 when the federal government introduced Healthcare.gov

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Part 1: Background

Since early in 2013, American citizens who don’t get an offer of affordable health insurance through work (that’s about 10% of working adults) have had another significant coverage option.

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I love working for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana. And I am 100% sold on the notion that the best way to pay for a person’s healthcare is by creating entities just like us and giving them the freedom to make local decisions and manage our healthcare funds. Read more

Mike originally wrote and published this piece in 2015. Blue Cross has gotten similar messages in the years since, so he decided to go back and see if his answer still stands. He’s added more details in this post, but the crux of his answer is the same. Read more