A slow meander through the maze that is getting health insurance coverage when you turn 65 in the USA

My Women's History Month homage to the women who have inspired me, Day 29: Lady Bird Johnson.

Introduction The purpose of this post is to start a conversation, and establish what is known, or described in current legal documents, which exist to describe the proposed entity, as a starting point,

To: The Community From: @theinsurancedoctor Re: Introduction I am a physician who practices medicine and works to help physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and hospital billing and utilization

Image Source Critique on the Current Status of American Health Care Although Dr. Sean Masaki Flynn's speech may have taken place 4 years before the national outrage sparked from the murder of

We face serious challenges relating to public debt and the pending insolvency of medicare and social security.

An unfunded liability of a government is a debt to a fund designed to make payments to people or entities, meaning that there's no money available to pay the debt obligations. These debt obligations are

About a third of Medicare enrollees have diabetes. Medicare Part D out-of-pocket spending on insulin in 2020 was over 4x spending in 2007. The average price per insulin product in 2020 was about $54, but

$56,300 is the median salary for full time workers in the US. $1,614 is how much Social Security pays on average per month. $19,370 a year 34% the median full time salary in the US. 11.6% is the median

The Trustees of the Social Security Program and the Medicare Program have predicted that the funds will become insolvent in 13 years and 6 years respectively. So, by 2035, once the Social Security becomes

Medicare and Medicare Sure Doesn't Make it Easy for Providers to Bill Them for the Services They Provide!

Medicare Advantage plans provide Medicare beneficiaries an option for private health care plans that give them access to innovative programs. These plans are similar to health plans enjoyed by millions

In 2005 I was without insurance and needed it. I hadn't yet seen a health provider to figure out what was wrong, so I was able to get insurance despite having what turned out to be a serious, pre-existing

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Probably half my steps today were from taking our dog for a walk over to one of the many lakes near where we live. She’s “a puppy of a certain age” as we like to call her, no longer a spring chicken,

Weednesday August 26 2020 in todays report: click here for video link on youtube Legalizing Medical Marijuana Could Free Up Federal Medicaid Dollars, American Samoa Official Says The “idea was legalizing

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For what the federal government spends on things like Medicare and Medicaid, we could literally just give every American in the middle and working class a $400 insurance voucher every month where they

Nor do I give a fuck when you kill yourself from obesity-related illness, it's a free country.