Wasteful Healthcare Spending

To reiterate; I am opposed to government run healthcare because it would be facilitated by the government. There is no less efficient method for operating anything than that run by government employees who are always overburdened and rarely motivated to provide excellent service. However, I do believe we, as a free nation of contributing taxpayers,…

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Association Health Plans

Geez, what will they come up with next to undermine the ACA, reduce Health Benefits and increase revenue for Corporations? You may think that plans to allow individuals to become part of Associations in order to purchase Health Insurance sounds like a good idea but please look deeper into the offerings. An Insurer selling an…

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What Changes are coming to the ACA?

With the election of Donald Trump and a Republican Majority it is time for the Republicans to put their constructive ideas where their destructive mouths have been. There is no question that millions more Americans have health coverage than before the Affordable Care Act came into being. Now the Republicans have the unenviable task of…

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On the state of Obamacare

I have been observing, from my intimate perch of acting as a Broker for over 150 Individual Clients seeking Health Insurance, the implementation, accessibility and expense of Health Insurance in NY. I assist people in trying to find insurance that will work for them. I try to be of help but I did not create…

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Single Payer?

With the increased cost of Health Insurance since the advent of the PPACA it is only logical that people turn to an idea that would seem to make costs more reasonable. The notion of a Single Payer system is that the government is the payer (that means all of us taxpayers) rather than the insurance…

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“Obamacare” – a brief introduction

One of the best indications for me to know that someone doesn’t really understand the Patient and Protection Affordable Care Act (PPACA), shortened to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and nicknamed “Obamacare” is when they refer to it as Obamacare. Let’s start off with Obamacare is not a Health Insurance plan. If you have Empire…

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