by Sylvia Moore | Aug 21, 2012 | News
Soon you’ll be able to buy health insurance if you don’t have it—but can you keep it? Even though the ACA did make it clear that health insurance companies can’t rescind a person’s insurance except for outright fraud, an insurer can still cancel your contract for a...
by Andrew McGuire | Aug 5, 2011 | News
Happy Birthday, Medicare! I should send you one of those gag cards that teases you about getting older—but at 46, you’re a year younger than I am, so I won’t go there. On your special day, a little reminiscing about your life… You sure did have a hard time in the...
by Andrew McGuire | Aug 4, 2011 | News
This post was inspired by my pastor Bob Hurst’s sermon last Sunday, built around the instruction not to fret over how some evil-doers never seem to get what they deserve. As my mother put it, “life’s not fair” (subtext “quit whining and get over it”). Bob did a...
by Andrew McGuire | May 31, 2011 | News
by Pippa Abston MD, PhD, FAAP Recently, Paul Krugman took on the use of the word “consumer” as applied to patients, in his blog post “Patients are not consumers” http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/22/opinion/22krugman.html?_r=1. You should read it, and then come back...