How Much Do You Want to Know? The Transparency Movement in Healthcare Pricing
Over the course of my nearly 60 year life, one thing about me has always been clear: I want more information. More. Better. Clearer.
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Category: Cost of Healthcare
The Pros and Cons of Single-Payer Health Insurance
A recent poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation shows broad support for expanding public healthcare coverage, including Medicare-for-All. In that poll, 74% of Americans favor a national government plan that is open to anyone.
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Baseball, Cataracts and Government-Run Healthcare – Part 2
In the last installment of “Straight Talk,” I shared with you some amazing things that recently happened with my eyesight. I had cataract surgery and my ophthalmologist returned my eyes to 20/20 vision for the first time in 50 years!
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Straight Talk Takes on Single-Payer
Who pays in a single-payer health insurance plan? This week, Straight Talk is kicking off a multi-part series on single-payer.
Sales Caravan | Raising Understanding Levels
Earlier this fall, I spent some time on the road traveling to every big city in Louisiana. Every year, we bring together all of the brokers, agents and consultants that do business with Blue Cross.
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Ready to Shop for Short-Term Limited Duration Health Insurance Plans (STLD)? Best Put on Your Big-Boy Pants.
When I was a little boy growing up in Morgan City in the 1960s, I had a baseball coach who seemed like he was 100 years old! “Coach Charlie” had been coaching Little League in our town for 30 years, and I was lucky enough to be on one of his teams right before he hung it up.
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