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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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Category: ACA and Policy

Louisiana Healthcare Opportunities: The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021

Can you remember your first credit card? Oh my. My memory of that is strikingly clear! It was April 1984 (yep, I’m old) and I was a senior at LSU, when a credit card from JC Penney’s just showed up in my mailbox at the student union.

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

The Full Cost of a Public Option | The Individual Health Insurance Marketplace

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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