Medicare can be confusing. There are a number of pieces to the Medicare puzzle, and understanding how they fit together and where there are gaps is important to knowing where Medicare coverage begins and ends. For the official U.S. Government perspective on Medicare, visit the Medicare Options Compare website. Remember that Medicare is a financial tool and should be used with your own common sense to determine things you may also want…
Medicare: What’s Covered and What’s Not
July 7th, 2008 No Comments
Tags: Health Insurance · medicare · medicare advantage · medicare part a · medicare part b · medicare prescription
10 Must-Have Investing and Insurance Books
May 10th, 2008 4 Comments
Get a Good Deal on Your Health Insurance Without Getting Ripped-Off named to "10 Must-have Investing and Insurance books"
"Dummies and Idiot’s guides may get you started in investing and help you understand the intricacies of your insurance policies, but these books are must-haves if you want to be an intelligent investor and consumer." - […]
Tags: Book Review · Health Insurance · Health Insurance Book · Must-have books
Five Star Book Review: Health Insurance Book at Retire Early Home Page
April 22nd, 2008 No Comments
Another 5 Star Review for "Get a Good Deal on Your Health Insurance Without Getting Ripped-Off" was posted recently at the Retire Early Home Page, one of the most interesting and useful sites for people interested in what it really takes to retire early. John P. Greaney, who successfully retired early at a […]
Tags: Book Review · Early Retirement · Health Insurance · Health Insurance Book
FM Talk 101 Audio Clip
February 13th, 2008 2 Comments
Listen to a brief audio clip from an appearance on FM Talk 101 with Brad and Britt in the morning. The format of the program was an introduction of Jonathan and the health insurance book Get a Good Deal on Your Health Insurance Without Getting Ripped-Off, followed by discussion with the hosts […]
Tags: · Health Insurance · Health Insurance Book · mp3 · radio
HSA changes booklet arrives 1/28/2008, with effective date 1/1/2008 and cover date 7/07
January 29th, 2008 No Comments
Why did I just get a “clarifications and changes” document in the mail yesterday, when the effective date on the “clarifications and changes” was 28 days prior, and the date that the information was prepared is listed as 7/07? Shouldn’t I have gotten the information sooner? What if I had made a claim in the […]
Tags: Health Insurance · HSA · policy changes
Greatest Irony: Health Plan Workers Consider Strike Over *Their* Health Insurance
January 28th, 2008 1 Comment
As unbelievable as it sounds, some HealthPartners employees are talking about striking over *their* health insurance benefits, as I found at the Minneapolis Saint Paul Business Journal and Pioneer Press. At issue is the need for employees to pay a portion of their medical premium, and a change in the way prescriptions are paid.
Obvious to […]
Tags: co-payments · Health Insurance · strike · twin cities
Health Insurance Co-Payments Studied
January 28th, 2008 2 Comments
I just came across a report on the UPI Newswire where information about a study titled “Co-payments as low as $12 deter women from getting mammograms” by Dr. Amal Trivedi. According to this article, the study found that 8% less women were having their annual mammogram when the copayment was $12 versus when there was […]
Tags: co-payments · HDHP · Health Insurance · HSA · mammograms
Lifetime maximum only one of many major dangers when buying health insurance
January 27th, 2008 2 Comments
In today’s Washington Post, Christopher Lee writes “More Hitting Cost Limit on Health Benefits” and discusses the lifetime maximum benefit on health insurance policy, the lower limit on transplants, and the ways that people are dealing with this issue (and in some cases not making the necessary choices). There are a couple of of other […]
Tags: Health Insurance · lifetime maximum
Consumer Reports Massively Underreports Cost of Maintaining an Unhealthy Lifestyle
January 25th, 2008 5 Comments
the cost of #7, Maintaining an unhealthy lifestyle, was far too low. Health insurance rates dwarf those of life insurance.
Tags: Consumer Reports · health · Health Insurance · insurance · Personal Finance
Two Specific Areas for Improvement in U.S. Health Insurance
January 16th, 2008 4 Comments
While the presidential candidates are talking blue-sky reforms, with all sorts of proposals, they may overlook the specific problems faced by real people in the U.S. today. In a comment on Response to Self Employed and Going It Alone, Steve makes two excellent points that we should all know about and make part of our […]
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