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What we don’t know IS hurting us.

Posted October, 12 2011 by arianne

Your insurance company wants more money from you. Why? Because it said so.  You wouldn’t understand anyways.  Just hand over your wallet and keep your mouth shut and nobody will get hurt. Except, people are getting hurt.  They’re being forced to choose between paying exorbitant increases to their health insurance premiums, or putting food on the table. And for what? So many […]

Which health benefits do you find to be essential?

Posted October, 7 2011 by arianne

Remember all that “essential health benefit” business in the Affordable Care Act (ACA)?  You know, how insurance plans sold on he upcomimg state insurance exchanges will have to cover certain basic benefits in order to be qualified? Well, the ACA said it was up to HHS to say what the essential health benefit package should include.  HHS then enlisted the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to propose a […]

NEWSFLASH: Snoozing may lead to losing

Posted October, 5 2011 by arianne

The good folks at Crain’s Health Pulse picked up on an interesting story this morning.  As you all know, New York hasn’t passed its Exchange bill yet because the State Senate chose not to vote on it during the last session and has not yet felt the need to revisit it. Well, turns out that Rhode Island had […]

NY's Statewide Consumer Assistance Program wants YOU!

Posted October, 4 2011 by arianne

The Community Service Society of New York (CSS) is now accepting proposals to join the Community Health Advocates (CHA) network and provide consumer assistance and education about health care and coverage.  CHA is New York’s statewide consumer assistance program created under the ACA. CHA will give out grants to up to six new organizations located in […]