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Category: Health and Wellness

What Covid-19, and Our Responses, Did to Louisiana in 2020

I have to admit… I don’t know too many people who are looking back fondly on 2020. It was a hard year, and COVID-19 — and our responses to it – caused an unimaginable amount of damage. In looking back through my files, I was shocked at the challenges the virus created and the damage it did. Read more

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Category: Health and Wellness

Busting COVID-19 Vaccine Myths: Get the Facts, Get the Vax

We are, as a state, at a critical point in our battle with COVID-19. After a brutal year where we lost more than 10,000 fellow Louisianians, saw hundreds of thousands of businesses close or downsize and nearly half a million people lose their jobs, we now have a way out of this COVID mess. Read more

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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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