New Orleans New reports indicate that with a little more than a week before the President’s deadline, 30% or more of the healthcare.gov website is still being built. Currently though it is working much better, it is still unreliable, though the 800# along with paper applications are excellent alternatives for enrollment. Unfortunately, there are signs of …
Category: Health Care
Before Throwing Obamacare Under the Bus, Look at Lessons in the Louisiana 5th District
New Orleans The headlines in all of the papers, local and national, are filled with handwringing about the worries of Democratic politicians and office holders in the wake of the difficult rollout of the Affordable Care Act to date. Before too many of these politicians throw Obamacare under the bus or jump over the cliff …
The Emerging Fight to Prevent Institutionalization of Substandard Health Insurance
New Orleans When is health insurance not health insurance? The answer should be simple. In the United States, at this point in time the answer should be that any health insurance offered by a private company that is both unaffordable, meaning that it costs more than 9.5% of someone’s annual income, and doesn’t provide basic …