The Curious case of IRS Section 79.
The protection sought with Section 79 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code is going backward. In the novel The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott…
IRMAA’s into B & D
IRMAA stands for Income-Related Monthly Adjustment Amount. Many pay premiums for Medicare Parts B and D, but high income enrollees may pay more.
The Bad Peppercorn
This started with a chicken Caesar Salad. You know, the kind at the grocer, all in one bag kind of thing. The breasts were perfectly seasoned and…
Be th’ insurance company takin’ me doubloons?
Be off in fer me #ACA Wellness exam (covered 100% No Deductible) Kaiser Permanente sends me a bill fer it. Blimey! Today is Talk Like a Pirate…
Wharf2Wharf 2015
? Got to get 10,000 steps a day!
Health insurance is expensive because health care is expensive
The headline is not mine to take credit for, but was attributed to NAHU President Tom Harte today in an article by Fox News. In effect, the article…
Normal is not a cure for HIV
One night coming back from a Board Meeting of a nonprofit in the Castro I snapped this photo through the window of the Duboce Cafe. Normal. All…
What Don Draper knew 50 years before CVS
It had been so long since I had seen one of these machines that I had to photograph it. I was in Atlanta for the NAHU convention…
Private Exchanges
I’m at the Choice Administrators road show for their private exchange product that has been writing multi-carrier health insurance for small business in California for 20+ years….
The value of a health insurance broker.
It’s the personal nature of health insurance that makes the need for human interaction so important. The purpose is to finance care and at times that comes…