by Elena DiRosa Last week, I asked my grandmother why she wasn’t eating her pasta. “Oh, you know my stomach, the acid just gets to me. I can’t eat anything anymore. ” This sparked a long conversation about her health problems, and how she manages them. With over 9 medical conditions and twelve medications,...
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Understanding Health Insurance Exchanges One of the largest parts of US health reform that was designed to help individuals and small businesses afford health insurance are health insurance exchanges. These exchanges are actually one of the main platforms of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) that was signed into law by President...
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Does Health Reform Affect Long Term Nursing Care? This question, about how health reform may affect long term care, is one that should be of pressing concern to people in middle age or seniors. After all, though the good news tells us we may expect to live longer, the bad news is that we...
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The Federal High Risk Health Insurance Pool May Be Coming To A State Near You! As one of the first steps towards health reform, the federal high risk health insurance pool is moving in to many states as an alternative to the current high risk health plans for people who have been declined by...
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Beware of Health Reform Scammers Health insurance scams are not new, and in fact, there has been a reported increase even before the new health reform bill passed. A troubled economy has created a larger population of Americans who were struggling with premiums because premiums still rose while incomes fell. That is one reason...
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Health Reform in The USA Since the health care reform debate seems to keep dragging on, I figured it might be interesting to some of us if I outlined a short summary of the history of this issue. Some of you probably think this all just start popping up this year, or last year....
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