jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Nov 17, 2009, 8:26 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) -The Senate is expected to introduce a new long-term care health insurance program to help the elderly and medically disabled avoid nursing homes.  The legislation which is likely to ...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Nov 16, 2009, 10:27 pm
I personally have been selling the Cigna individual health insurance plans for about a year as they just came out.  I had always though of Cigna as a good company who could be trusted.  I mean their...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Nov 16, 2009, 2:47 pm
The current bill as it stands now still has plenty of loopholes to guarantee the health insurance industry its profits are able to continue. For one, disclosures about the health insurance plans that...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Nov 16, 2009, 2:22 pm
Many of our health insurance clients and prospects are happy enough to wait for the so called Health Care Reform Bill to spastically make its way through Congress, with the hope that as soon as it pas...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Nov 16, 2009, 1:57 pm
Americans are beginning to doubt the economics and the effectiveness of the ObamaCare legislation and by all rights they should!  According to a new poll 43% oppose and 41% support it with the rest n...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Nov 12, 2009, 5:33 pm
Posted by NEJM • November 11th, 2009   Paul B. Ginsburg, Ph.D. No issue has dominated the health care reform debate as much as whether the U.S. government should offer a health insurance plan to...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Nov 12, 2009, 5:28 pm
By: Carrie Budoff Brown November 11, 2009 06:26 PM EST No independent group has taken a comprehensive look at how the legislation would impact premiums for the 170 million Americans who receive in...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Nov 12, 2009, 5:23 pm
WASHINGTON — Majority Leader Harry Reid is considering a plan for higher payroll taxes on the upper-income earners to help finance health care legislation he intends to introduce in the Senate in th...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Nov 10, 2009, 10:40 am
WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats are looking to former President Bill Clinton to jump-start their push to overhaul America’s health care system, hoping a battle-scarred veteran of past health car...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Nov 10, 2009, 10:32 am
HOUSTON (AP) — The American Medical Association on Monday rebuffed dissident members and voted to stick with support for ongoing health reform efforts, while reiterating wariness over proposals ...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Nov 10, 2009, 10:03 am
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG WASHINGTON — As health care legislation moves toward a crucial airing in the Senate, the White House is facing a growing revolt from some Democrats and analysts who say the b...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Nov 8, 2009, 9:54 am
About this author: Peter Schiff’s articles on Seeking Alpha Visit Euro Pacific Capital, Inc. Download a research report from Euro Pacific Capital, Inc. Peter Schiff on Facebook RSS Feed for P...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Nov 8, 2009, 9:48 am
Sweeping Health Care Reform passed in the House today!  Times they are a changing!  Its time to get out your dancing shoes as the new health care reform bill is headed to the Senate where they are s...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Nov 6, 2009, 12:22 pm
If anyone needs more evidence that healthcare spending is concentrated at the end of life, here’s another raft of confirming statistics from the federal government for 2007. // < ![CDATA[ docu...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Nov 6, 2009, 12:06 pm
Andy Cobb has had enough. A former pitchman for BlueCross Blue Shield of Florida, Cobb is breaking with the firm and speaking out in favor of health care reform and a public health insurance option. ...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Nov 5, 2009, 11:27 am
Some Vaguely Heretical Thoughts on Health-Care Reform With the publication of H.R. 3962, the House Democrats’ mammoth, 1,990-page proposal to restructure the health-care system (the outlines of whi...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Nov 5, 2009, 11:18 am
Unhealthy America The Moment of truth for health care is at hand, and the distortion that perhaps gets the most traction is this: Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times Go to Blog » Go to Columnist Pag...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Nov 5, 2009, 11:11 am
WASHINGTON — You’re afraid your cancer is back, and a health insurance company just turned you down.  The latest health care bill is just another example of government waste.  Again the only...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Nov 5, 2009, 10:59 am
... our standpoint, we picked up votes,” Pelosi said. House leaders said that they were confident of reaching their goal in time for a ... this critical bill through the House,” Major...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Nov 2, 2009, 7:43 pm
When I was going through the various newspapers and so forth for today’s blog posts.  I found out that the Public Option is a great big giant red herring.  While everyone was looking they wagg...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Nov 2, 2009, 7:32 pm
Businesses, including medical device makers, insurers and pharmaceutical companies are bracing for tax and fee provisions in the House health care reform bill. The Associated Press: “The health...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Nov 2, 2009, 12:33 pm
The Republicans came forward today in the House and offered their own health care reform legislation.  The Republicans version of the health reform bill includes a line item that make anyone making u...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Oct 31, 2009, 1:52 pm
Pelosi Backs Off Set Rates for Public Option By ROBERT PEAR Published: October 28, 2009 In the history of health insurance the government negotiations with the pharmaceuticals for the President Bush p...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Oct 31, 2009, 1:36 pm
I was surprised by the inclusion of the pubic option in the bill that was released last week, as I thought that the Republicans minority and Moderate Dems had defeated it.  In fact, I was beginning t...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Oct 29, 2009, 2:48 pm
From the AP Today is a news article about the House majority Dems. delivering their legislation on health care. As a citizen I am frankly happy that something is going to happen for all the people th...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Oct 27, 2009, 4:42 pm
  Tell Congress that Being a Woman is Not a “Pre-Existing Condition” Did you know that being a woman is increasingly considered a “pre-existing condition” by health insuranc...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Oct 26, 2009, 2:58 pm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33441437/ns/health-health_care/ No guarantees: 3 tales of insurance disaster – Dose of reality As the mother of a toddler who survives only because of the breathin...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Oct 26, 2009, 1:31 pm
WASHINGTON, Oct 26 (Reuters) – The U.S. healthcare system is just as wasteful as President Barack Obama says it is, and proposed reforms could be paid for by fixing some of the most obvious inef...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Oct 26, 2009, 12:42 pm
A health reform bill that includes some variation of a public insurance option is likely to land on President Obama’s desk late this year or early in 2010, according to two lobbyists who represent i...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Oct 26, 2009, 12:02 pm
Peter is usually much more vehement and outspoken when he recommends the investment of betting against the US economy and its currency. However the guy is running for the Senate seat in Connecticut an...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Oct 26, 2009, 11:47 am
It is time to discuss Tort Reform, this issue to me is the one of the most glaring problems in the health care debate because it is the easiest to fix!  If I woke up and had a missing leg after a rou...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Oct 26, 2009, 11:30 am
Here is yet another health discount company that is being busted.  The local, state, and federal governments are not doing a thing to stop this and what is so annoying is that they could very easily ...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Oct 22, 2009, 4:06 pm
Guess it is two in one day. Now it is being reported that underweight premies are being denied health insurance.  Of course the publicity comes and Embattled health insurance companies are taking a ...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Oct 22, 2009, 3:58 pm
From a feminist blog we are now being informed about a rape victim being declined medical coverage.  Last month we reported on the fact that the health insurance industry was considering spousal abus...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Oct 21, 2009, 1:08 pm
Senate Democrats Hit Snag With Doctor Payment Bill New York Times, Robert Pear, 10/21/2009 In the face of solid Republican opposition, Senate Democrats on Tuesday backed down from their effort to ...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Oct 21, 2009, 11:50 am
Fewer than half of employee benefit plan sponsors say the money they pay toward workers’ benefits has increased this year.  So even though health care costs have gone up about 10% this year you...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Oct 21, 2009, 11:43 am
This survey from the Daily Industry Radar reveals how out of touch the physician and medical field is from the health insurance industry.  Who is correct?  The health insurance plan executives have ...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Oct 18, 2009, 5:57 pm
Medicare and Cutbacks:  Don’t Anger the Seniors as they Will Eat Your Babies In an ongoing series of posts about the facts of healthcare, we thought it important—especially in the Florida ma...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Oct 16, 2009, 12:59 pm
Anyone that thinks the health insurance reform laws being bandied about are going to fix our health care problems in anyway, is not only wrong but does not understand the problems.  The biggest probl...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Oct 14, 2009, 7:18 pm
The Health Care Industry is Literally Getting Ready to Stick It In America Health Insurance is mandatory?  Fines imposed?  Let’s make health insurance a mandatory requirement and thus force e...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Oct 13, 2009, 9:03 pm
Humana We Love Health Reform Here is a little paragraph or two from the Humana health reform opinion.  They seem to like the idea of crippling the (insert joke here) health insurance system and repl...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Oct 11, 2009, 12:30 am
“Total health care costs in the last 20 years have doubled to about 16 percent of the economy, with no signs of tapering. Along with universal coverage, Mr. Obama has made controlling those cost...
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jeremy ehrenthal posted an article on Florida Health Insurance News, Views, and Reviews - Oct 10, 2009, 2:32 am
The Worst State For Health Insurance in The United States is…. … any ranking among states must also produce a bottom group. The state with the worst health system is Mississippi, accordin...
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