http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/HSA_insurance/ HSAs (Health Savings Accounts) Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:16:18 GMT Jerry http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/HSA_insurance/message/881 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/HSA_insurance/message/881 Hi, everyone. This New York Times article has a lot of tips and websites for consumers to get info on health care pricing: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:46:55 GMT Astro46 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/HSA_insurance/message/880 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/HSA_insurance/message/880 Why the connection with high BCBS rates and a public option for healthcare? Groups can organize as "non profits" for different reasons and it doesn't Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:24:42 GMT Ed http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/HSA_insurance/message/879 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/HSA_insurance/message/879 I am curious why no one in this group is posting about healthcare reform questions. Did anyone read John Mackay's (CEO and founder of Whole Foods)open letter Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:03:39 GMT Ed http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/HSA_insurance/message/878 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/HSA_insurance/message/878 Unicare announced Wed they are leaving TX and IL markets for their under 65 market individual and group health insurance and immediately stopped selling new Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:49:01 GMT Bob Cole http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/HSA_insurance/message/877 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/HSA_insurance/message/877 Thanks for your thoughtful reply. I agree with your point about cost control. The current system incentivizes wasteful and ineffective medicine. Two Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:20:15 GMT msagent78209 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/HSA_insurance/message/876 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/HSA_insurance/message/876 Hi, Bob! I have been an insurance broker since 1993 and have never once run into a situation as you have sadly described about your mother and I hope I never Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:15:02 GMT debosco321 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/HSA_insurance/message/875 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/HSA_insurance/message/875 Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus and the "Gang of Six" released a framework for comprehensive health care reform. Here are reforms to HSAs that are Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:41:54 GMT bob@... http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/HSA_insurance/message/874 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/HSA_insurance/message/874 It's way too early to declare the death of private insurers, but the only way they will survive is to embrace a fundamental change in the way they do business. Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:49:59 GMT R Matt Doody http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/HSA_insurance/message/873 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/HSA_insurance/message/873 Tim,I'm like you, completely baffled as to what I'm going to be charged, what is allowed and not.  It makes  you  wonder if anyone is really thinking about Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:25:58 GMT Mark Leventhal http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/HSA_insurance/message/872 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/HSA_insurance/message/872 I don't think you read it correctly. Page 16 only deals with grandfathered policys. ... From: R. Matt Doody To: HSA_insurance@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:23:44 GMT dolfanwave http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/HSA_insurance/message/871 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/HSA_insurance/message/871 imo. one of the problems is that the medical business is not run like a business.Ask ur dr or nurse. "whats it gonna cost to stitch up the cut in the Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:31:45 GMT Arnold M. Maslow CLU http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/HSA_insurance/message/870 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/HSA_insurance/message/870 It's not about the money, it's about control. It didn't take long to run into an "uh-oh" moment when reading the House's "health care for all Americans" bill. Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:28:36 GMT R Matt Doody http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/HSA_insurance/message/869 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/HSA_insurance/message/869 It is very real in that it takes away choices from individuals.  Neither is it fear-mongering! Pg 16 states that any change in carriers forces a person into Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:38:15 GMT rstehlin2003 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/HSA_insurance/message/868 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/HSA_insurance/message/868 what is probably hidden in the "exchange" component of the distribution part of the plan is the elimination of the health insurance agent. The administration Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:32:31 GMT bob@... http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/HSA_insurance/message/867 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/HSA_insurance/message/867 This may or may not be baloney, but in any event it is beside the point. This sounds like more of the fear-mongering that the insurance companies used to