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Category: ACA and Policy, Cost of Healthcare, Government Programs, Health Insurance

The Public Options and the Single-Sided Salad Bar

As the federal government continues to create high-stakes borrowing packages toward various areas of COVID relief, the subject of more government involvement in paying for healthcare has arisen in a variety of ways. Read more

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Category: ACA and Policy, Cost of Healthcare, Government Programs, Health Insurance

Things Look Too Good to Be True, But They Are True!

Healthcare.Gov Pricing Under ARPA21

When I was a young man, around 15-years-old, I already had two jobs. One working at a tennis pro shop, stringing rackets, scheduling courts, teaching lessons, and selling equipment and clothing. Read more

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Category: ACA and Policy, Cost of Healthcare, Health Insurance

The Family Glitch and How It Might Drive Up YOUR Insurance Costs

I can’t help but wonder why the companies that manufacture automobiles ever came up with the “Check Engine” light. It’s just so… useless.

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Category: ACA and Policy, Cost of Healthcare, Health Insurance

The Full Cost of a Public Option, Part 3 | The End of The World

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

And Mike doesn’t feel fine. Read more

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Category: Cost of Healthcare, Health Insurance

How Blue Cross Spent Your Money in 2019

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

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Category: ACA and Policy, Cost of Healthcare, Government Programs, Health Insurance

The Full Cost of a Public Option, Part 2 | Proposed Changes

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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