As recent readers to my blog know I’ve been going through the process of collecting information to make a decision about my family’s health insurance needs for the future. I’ve made that decision, enacted it, and now am free-and-clear to resume living my life until this time next year when I’ll need to decide what to do for 2015.

Ok, so on the surface this is good for me. It lets me keep my plan. (Edit: no, it won’t. New Hampshire has opted not to extend the cancelation deadline, likely for the reasons I originally detailed below). But… we’re also still mandating that insurance companies must take people with pre-existing conditions. And now we’re (effectively) saying […]

On Wednesday, President Obama sat down with NBC and issued what amounts to a blanket apology to people like me who had very good health insurance plans which will be canceled as a part of ACA/ObamaCare next year (plans that he has called “substandard”). Apology accepted. And Obama also deserves a heartfelt attaboy for stepping up […]

I don’t hate Barack Obama. I wish the man no ill will and, honestly, I originally liked ObamaCare’s high-level concepts. Ensuring that everyone gets some basic level of healthcare is A-OK by me, and I have gone on record stating that I am OK paying a little more to ensure that happens. I also like […]

Finally the national discussion is beginning to address the big three-and-a-half year old elephant in the room regarding ObamaCare: many (most?) people with individual health care/insurance plans will lose these plans in 2014. Note, for clarity: I’m not saying that we’ll lose access to coverage. We’ll simply lose the plans we have now and be forced […]

I’ll start by saying that I think Obamacare will wind up being seen similar to how No Child Left Behind is now: something that was a great idea at the start but through the political machine turned into a steaming pile of insert-your-favorite-noun-here. “Healthcare for the poor” and “all kids getting a good eduction” are […]