I’ve been on Medicaid for a few months. I’ve been on SNAP for a few weeks. I’m waiting to be approved for Social Security benefits.
Tag: politics
Medicaid Expansion Explained
Let’s start with the most important fact–millions of Americans have health insurance because of Medicaid expansion.
Caps on Health Insurance
Before passage of Obamacare, many Americans were subject to annual and/or lifetime caps on the amount of money their insurer would pay for their coverage; for example, if your insurance plan had a lifetime cap of a million dollars, the insurance company would stop paying your bills once they reached a million dollars.
Taxes in Obamacare
The IRS has produced a page on the tax provisions in Obamacare.
America’s Failing Health Care System
The post entitled The State of American Health care contains all the information discussed in the podcast. The links to the relevant sections of the CIA’s World Factbook can be found in this post too. My health care tag lists all the health care content I have produced. Every time I blog or podcast about… Continue reading America’s Failing Health Care System
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The State of American Health Care
All of the data in this post is from the CIA’s World Factbook.
Medical Professionals Kill Many Americans
In 2013, John James released a report called A New Evidence Based Estimate of Patient Harms. James estimated that between 210,000 and 440,000 Americans die as a result of harm done to them during hospitalization.
Health Insurance Across State Lines
Since 2011, five states, Georgia, Rhode Island, Maine, Kentucky, and Wyoming have passed laws allowing insurance companies to sell insurance plans in their states. Georgia’s law has been in affect since 2011. As of this writing, no policy has been sold under those state laws.
Explaining Essential Health Care Benefits
As we wait for the Senate’s version of health care reform, I wanted to explain the 10 <a href=”https://www.healthcare.gov/blog/10-health-care-benefits-covered-in-the-health-insurance-marketplace/” target=_blank”>essential health care benefitsmandated by Obamacare.
Everyone Doesn’t Pay the Same to Support Social Security
Everyone is aware that their employer withholds taxes from each paycheck to help fund Social Security. What you may not know is that every American doesn’t pay the same percentage of their income to support Social Security.