jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Dec 22, 2011, 10:27 am
Apparently America, you are confused as to exactly what the health care reform means.  The good folks at Kaiser Family Foundation have found that by simply changing the parameters of the question Americans could be swayed to vote either way.The confusion comes from the fact that most Americans simp...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Dec 21, 2011, 9:59 am
Well you probably aren’t surprised that people in Florida are electing to skip health insurance.  But maybe you are surprised by how bad the market is getting.  As a broker I have insights in the market from insiders and from what I hear Blue Cross of Florida is down like 35% on the individual s...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Dec 20, 2011, 1:38 pm
Not That Kind of Date! Health insurance brokers are literally crapping their pants right now as the Supreme Court has finally given us a date! From March 26 through the 28th, the Supreme Beings that are the final arbiter on everything from abortions to equal rights will give a judgement on the law...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Dec 15, 2011, 10:30 am
Good news for America!  2.5 million young adults are now newly covered under their parents plans bringing the percentage of this segment of the population from 34% uninsured to only 29%.  In fact, in 2011 the overall percentage of Americans between 18-64 without insurance dropped from 22.3% in 201...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Dec 9, 2011, 9:55 am
I believe this is an important issue for many people and I am sure there are at least a few google searches per month on this very topic.  The question of course is does your health insurance plan cover your brand new penis (or lack thereof)? And in what must be a good sign of fairness under the l...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Dec 7, 2011, 12:31 pm
Big news today out of Michigan!  Aetna is suing Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan for implementing a hare brained business scheme.  And it to me, typifies the attitudes of many of the Blue Cross franchises where they believe that they can do whatever they want.  We are currently battling the goo...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Dec 5, 2011, 12:51 pm
In a controversial decision (especially among health insurance brokers), the Obama administration issued or rather reissued a rule that is likely to crush many health insurance agents.  Fees or commissions paid to us by insurance carriers won’t count as medical care under the MLR rule. Some peop...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Dec 1, 2011, 11:10 am
Positive news out of Florida for a change.  Our state (East Coast Health Insurance makes its home in Deerfield Beach, Florida),  leads the nation in lowering the rate of uninsured children, according to a study released Tuesday.  (The downside is that adults continue to sacrifice coverage.  Flor...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Nov 30, 2011, 12:37 pm
A shocking if not predictable research project by the University of Minnesota has identified a loophole in the health reform law that will allow employers to push their portion of health insurance premiums towards the government. Essentially, hidden incentives in the current health care reform law ...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Nov 10, 2011, 11:28 am
Finally, today the Supreme Court will meet to discuss how to begin the debate on health reform.  I am quite certain that they already know their individual views on it and most certainly those views will be based on their own partisan politics. Health insurance brokers like me have been waiting ov...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Aug 31, 2011, 10:56 am
Sad news today America!  In what will most likely truly hurt many Americans, the subsidy to help laid-off workers afford and continue their health insurance ends today Wednesday, August 31st.  If you wonder how the long term unemployed will continue to afford their Cobra payments you are not alone...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Aug 26, 2011, 10:17 am
Experts Predict 165 Million Americans Will Be Obese By 2030. ABC World News (8/25, story 7, 2:00, Stephanopoulos) reported, “Tonight, sobering new numbers on America’s struggle with obesity.” A new series on obesity published in “the medical journal Lancet says if trends continue, half of a...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Jun 16, 2011, 12:48 pm
  Did you recently have a medical claim denied by your employer sponsored group health insurance plan?   Did you breast enlargement procedure go horribly wrong and people now call you Frankenboob?  You might be entitled to get the claims decisions appealed! On January 1st of this year, all 44 ...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Jun 7, 2011, 9:33 am
In what can only be described as the most unexpected news since the Taliban learned about disco last week, Aetna has announced a premium drop in the 3rd quarter.  Yes you don’t need to reload this page, you read that correctly, Aetna is lowering premiums.  Ok so its only in Connecticut, and its ...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Jun 1, 2011, 5:44 pm
Trying to spur enrollment in a key new benefit of the 2010 health law, the Obama administration announced today it is slashing premiums for new high-risk insurance plans and no longer requiring applicants to submit a rejection letter from private insurers. PCIP (or Pre-Exisiting Conditions Insura...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - May 2, 2011, 9:18 am
As most Americans know by now, colonoscopies are very essential to prevent colon cancer which are used to spot colorectal cancer which will kill about 50,000 Americans this year.  After the government changed our health care laws, health insurance plans were now being required to cover most prevent...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Apr 18, 2011, 9:22 am
One of the most overlooked assets available to those that don’t have private health insurance is the community health center.  These centers see almost 20 million patients per year and by 2015 due to health reform, that number is expected to double.  Because the ranks of the uninsured has risen ...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Mar 28, 2011, 3:31 pm
One of the craziest things that has ever happened to me as a webmaster in health insurance happened when I started getting inundated with harassing phone calls and emails from the insurance companies for posting underwriting guidelines in my website.  I don’t know why these documents are so secre...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Mar 24, 2011, 5:14 pm
They’re Taking Our Jobs The one thing that is becoming crystal clear about the ObamaCare health reform act is that no one understands it or more importantly understands its implications.  Recent data “published this week by a left-leaning policy think tank contradicted Republican claims that t...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Mar 16, 2011, 12:37 pm
In a substantial news piece today in both the New York Times and Politico, it seems that both parties are coming to the rescue of the endangered health insurance broker!  Don’t look now, but there are about a half million health insurance brokers that are buying new cars today!  (I bought one ov...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Mar 1, 2011, 2:12 pm
In what might be the most under reported high profile endorsement in the history of health reform, Obama is endorsing the legislation originally proposed by Sens. Ron Wyden and Scott Brown which “would give states” the freedom to opt out of the legislation, though not “entirely,” by 2014.  ...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Jan 20, 2011, 10:21 am
With news of the House Republicans offing the health reform bill, one can only think what wonderful symbolic action might be next for them.  Maybe they should consider symbolically voting away bad dreams for children as who wants that?  Or maybe the should symbolically vote on extending Christmas ...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Jan 14, 2011, 2:05 pm
I know that many of my fellow health insurance brokers are just itching for the House vote next week preying for a vote against the health bill by the new Republican House members which of course could lead to a total recission at the Senate, and then finally a crescendo when Obama signs to repeal h...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Dec 30, 2010, 3:53 pm
Well first of all congratulation America on your shiny new car!  As of Monday health insurance commissions will end up in the toilet for us brokers and agents.  Many brokers will be forced to find new work perhaps even illegally, this guess is based on the exploits of some of our peers and the sel...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Dec 22, 2010, 10:26 am
The Obama administration released Tuesday new proposed rules that Health insurance companies seeking a rate increase of 10 percent or more in 2011 must publicly explain why the increase is needed.  Under this new proposal, the highlighted premium rate increases would be subject to review by the sta...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Sep 7, 2010, 4:34 pm
With health care reform ready to sick its ugly teeth into our health care system, I have been at a loss in order to continue upgrading this site based on helping people shop and understand health insurance.  Because of the coming changes as of 9/23 and then even more changes coming on 10/1 and then...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Jun 1, 2010, 7:29 pm
Your children will now be able to stay on your health insurance policy until they finally reach Medicare, good news for them bad news for you and your insurance company. In a recent email from Aetna, Aetna has come forward with a new change for those people that have Aetna or plan on getting it, wh...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - May 29, 2010, 1:08 pm
Just when you thought you were happy or comfortable with your Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida health insurance plan, here comes the bad news.  There is a large increase coming for everyone regardless of when you signed up.  Here is a list of the effected populations: Rate Increase Products ...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Mar 23, 2010, 5:51 pm
So now that health reform has passed and has been written about and reported on so extensively, the only topic left to cover is what effect it will have on us health insurance brokers, and our individual health insurance market.  I am about to give a scenario which is based on the current law (yes ...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Mar 23, 2010, 10:56 am
In one of the more reasoned viewpoints on health care, Ron Paul seems to have the antidote for our health insurance woes.  Though many consider Congressman Paul to be a fringe element, the truth is that he is being embraced by millions that are simply tired of our two party system which of cour...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Mar 19, 2010, 8:58 pm
As more and more doctors begin to accept the coming reality of Medicaid and Medicare cuts, you will see not only fewer doctors, but higher medical costs.  Do you have any idea how much a physician gets for an average office visit for one of these patients?  If you guessed $25, well go buy your...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Mar 18, 2010, 5:48 pm
In the news today of course is the continuing saga of health reform.  In the Democrats final chess move, they are attempting to pass the Senate Health Reform bill by a process called Reconciliation which I have discussed in much detail over the last few weeks.  Usually, this process is used to pas...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Mar 15, 2010, 3:19 pm
I received an email today from the great website http://democracyforamerica.com, which is seeking to not save health reform, though this is a great idea, but to save the public option.  Health reform without a public option will make the health insurance companies rich but do nothing to control ris...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Mar 15, 2010, 10:58 am
Everyday, Democrats are becoming more and more desperate to reform our health care system, while Republicans look for ways to foil them.  Most Americans are sadly ignorant of this health reform fiasco, but they should be very much angry at this point.  Like when the angry mob goes after Frankenste...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Mar 14, 2010, 6:39 am
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Mar 14, 2010, 6:39 am
A new study from the Robert Wood Foundation that hypothesizes the role of health insurance exchanges after health reform. Introduction While the health reform debate continues in Washington, both the House and the Senate proposals include the establishment of health insurance exchanges to...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Mar 13, 2010, 1:51 pm
Cobra is great if your sick, even if your not it can sometimes be appealing especially if you are over 50.  But don’t fall into the trap of sticking with Cobra!  Let me tell you a little story that was just told to me yesterday by a potential client. In Utah where the economy is flailing un...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Mar 13, 2010, 1:51 pm
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Mar 10, 2010, 3:52 pm
Aetna’s president was recently interviewed and came down hard on our system of health care in this country.  Which is ironic of course as they profit so blatantly from our mismanged care system. What is his chief complaint?  I would have guessed it to be something like rising health care co...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Mar 10, 2010, 3:52 pm
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Mar 9, 2010, 11:21 am
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Mar 5, 2010, 12:07 pm
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Mar 2, 2010, 2:36 pm
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