I’m sure anyone reading this blog has been following the national healthcare debate.  Also if you read this blog, I mentioned that my cheap insurance company refuses to COVER my breast pump.  But I have been hounding them because they SHOULD.  Out of principal hell yes they should.  We pay premiums, we follow their damn [...]

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You are able to contribute up to $5k/year to a flexible spending account.  This is different from a health savings account, which you own and are able to accrue money in tax free for medical premiums and expenses for your life.  What you put in grows tax free, but usually is with taxed money.  Then [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving to all the readers!  May 2010 be an awesome and blessed year to you all!
I am so thankful for the health and well-being of my family and friends and the opportunity to write this blog.  I look forward to 2010 with much awaited anticipation!
Cheers!

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I am currently going through a rough time with my dog.  He is very sick and I am very worried.  We don’t have pet health insurance for him, because we adopted him and getting insurance wasn’t feasible.
So when given a choice about caring for a dog, I’ve always said that finances don’t matter. And the [...]

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So my DH and I got a bill for a health service with regards to our pregnancy.  Supposedly we had pre-approval and a referral in place.  I assumed so because that’s how the appointment was set by one practitioner calling another.
Since we’ve had 2 subsequent appointments, but the second one was paid, but not the [...]

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If we had to pay out of pocket for medical care, would you do things differently?  If we were expected to foot the bill for all procedures, including catastrophic medical bills, would that affect how you view healthcare?  If we treated healthcare not as a right, but as a bill to pay, would that affect [...]

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A couple of weeks ago I wrote about why free market health insurance won’t work.  Hear a true explanation from the blogger himself, David.
David is a personal finance blogger in every sense of the title.  His blog, Goliath Debt, David Income, chronicles his personal struggles with finances, specifically the struggle to get out of the [...]

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This is a fast post which will likely infuriate readers of mine who believe we should all pay out of pocket for medical care. I haven’t much to say except I told you so.
Here’s a blog where the guy admits he made a huge mistake not having health insurance. He took a gamble [...]

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I have fabulous medical insurance.  Ridiculously great benefits. We’ve chatted with our neighbors and friends and our benefits are superior in price and coverage.  Pretty much everything covered.  I have 24 chirovisit, vision and dental basic coverage, we pay extra for more coverage $7/month for vision and dental!  If we have a baby it’s $0 [...]

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Just a quick update on yesterday’s post.  Here’s an essay by a doctor talking about the new business of medicine.
An excerpt.
But something fundamental is lost when doctors start thinking of medicine as a business. In their essay, Dr. Hartzband and Dr. Groopman talk about the erosion of collegiality, cooperation and teamwork when a marketplace environment [...]

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