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04/17/2023

Check out our recent video where Grace responds to some of the points that Dave Ramsey makes in his article talking about how to get health insurance as someone who'e self employed. She highlights a few points he made where she thinks he's not entirely correct or at least leaves out some important context.

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08/25/2022

Swim With The Pigs with the Money You'll Save on Health Insurance https://hubs.li/Q01jL4Xj0

Wanna take that vacation and swim with the pigs, or maybe you just want a little extra money to spend every day. With Medical Insurance costs rising every y...

08/22/2022

How Any Business Can Offer Better Health Benefits That Make Employees Happy https://hubs.li/Q01jKTs30

Finding and retaining good employees is not easy these days. Being able to offer them something worth staying is even harder. But by offering better health...

08/18/2022

Don’t Let Health Insurance Break the Family Budget
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You don't have to let health insurance break the family budget. According to the Kaiser foundation, last year the cost to add your family to an individual e...

08/16/2022

Learn How Anyone Can Afford Really Great Health Benefits That Don't Suck! https://hubs.li/Q01jKWVT0

Health Insurance does NOT equal Great Health Benefits! Grace shares what we all know about how bad health insurance can be, but then tells us what many don't...

08/12/2022

Americans’ Challenges with Health Care Costs https://hubs.li/Q01jKRj40

This data note reviews our recent polling data that finds that Americans struggle to afford many aspects of health care, including disproportionate shares of uninsured adults, Black and Hispanic ad…

08/10/2022

Americans Confused By Basic Health Insurance Terms But Happy With Their Plans https://hubs.li/Q01jKL5H0

Ignorance may be bliss for health insurance consumers. Many Americans say they’re happy with their health insurance, but that doesn’t mean they understand it. A recent Forbes Advisor survey of 2,000 Americans who have health insurance found that over three-quarters can’t identify the term “c...

07/15/2022

Could subscription model be the answer to US health care cost woes? | BenefitsPRO https://hubs.li/Q01gNFlB0

A new survey finds many U.S. employers and employees are open to subscription care options like direct primary care as a way to improve access and reduce costs.

07/13/2022

Preventive care may be free, but follow-up diagnostic tests can bring big bills https://hubs.li/Q01gNKhQ0

When Cynthia Johnson learned she would owe $200 out-of-pocket for a diagnostic mammogram in Houston, she almost put off getting the test that told her she had breast cancer.

07/07/2022

Are your choices in group health benefits actually hurting your employees? If you still think group health insurance is best, think again.
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When the design of employers' health benefit plans is chiefly driven by efforts to lower their costs, employees may suffer the consequences, according to opponents of stringent health care cost-containing measures.

07/05/2022

The case for HSAs: How these accounts work overtime to improve health and wealth
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HSAs help cover out-of-pocket medical costs in current and future years, fund Medicare, finance long-term care insurance premiums, and provide for retirement income and survivor benefits.

07/01/2022

Changing the healthcare payment model from fee for service to membership better aligns patients and providers around health.

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We outline key product considerations for those designing, developing, managing, or purchasing primary-care subscription-based products.

06/29/2022

100 Million People in America Are Saddled With Health Care Debt https://hubs.li/Q01fPSD40

The U.S. health system now produces debt on a mass scale, a new investigation shows. Patients face gut-wrenching sacrifices.

06/17/2022

4 ER Truths You Need to Know Before Visiting the Emergency Room

Consumer beware! It doesn't matter if you have health insurance, a visit to the Emergency Room can cause you plenty of financial pain. If you want to avoid...

06/16/2022

Did you know that pharmacy benefit management companies — the intermediaries managing drug benefits for health insurance plans are controlling the prices in 4 out of 5 retail prescription purchases, because they are in bed with the large health insurance companies? Such a useless waste of money!

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The good news about prescription drugs, in the context of medical spending in the U.S., is that 9 in 10 medicines prescribed are generics. They comprise only 3% of all U.S. healthcare spending.           But there’s bad news about prescription drugs in the context of medical spending in Ameri...

06/13/2022

This article highlights so many of the issues plaguing health insurance consumers in the United States today.

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Maya Cohen’s entree into the world of obesity medicine came as a shock. In despair over her weight, she saw Dr. Caroline Apovian, an obesity specialist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, who prescribed Saxenda, a recently approved weight-loss drug. Cohen, who is 55 and lives in Cape Elizabeth, Mai...

06/10/2022

4 Tips How Anyone Can Save Money On Healthcare

I'm going to give you 4 tips on how anyone can save money on healthcare. Who doesn’t want to save money? In a time of rampant inflation, learning how everyo...

06/08/2022

Three Reasons Medical Cost Sharing is Way Better than Health Insurance

Three Reasons Medical Cost Sharing is Way Better than Health Insurance. Health Insurance does NOT equal Great Health Benefits! Grace shares what we all know...