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Alarm bells.  Warning lights.  Bespectacled insurance agents jumping up and down and waving our arms.  The last three years have had no shortage of dire predictions.  Most have been ignored.  The warnings were coming primarily from Republican leadership and insurance … Continue reading →

Robert Anderson grimaced.  The next to the last thing in the world Bob (name changed) wanted to do was to defend The Path To Prosperity, Paul Ryan’s new budget.  The very last thing would be to defend or even to … Continue reading →

One of the key points of this blog is that the health care debate has never been about health care.  Never.  Money isn’t the prime driver.  Money is the only driver.  How do the hospitals, doctors and other medical providers … Continue reading →

Cause and effect.  Stand in the rain and you will get wet.  We get that.  We aren’t surprised, normally, when 1 plus 1 gets us 2.  But human nature will, at times, have us rooting for a different result.  There … Continue reading →

Women are imprisoned in their homes, and are denied access to basic health care and education. Food sent to help starving people is stolen by their leaders. The religious monuments of other faiths are destroyed. Children are forbidden to fly … Continue reading →

A Kind-hearted Physician sitting at the bedside of a patient afflicted with an incurable and painful disease, heard a noise behind him, and turning saw a cat laughing at the feeble efforts of a wounded mouse to drag itself out … Continue reading →

Jim Renacci (R-OH) got caught.  Last Thursday’s Plain Dealer called out the congressman in the PolitiFact column.  Obamacare includes “a $63 charge every American will begin paying (in 2013) as a way to cover some of the increased costs associated … Continue reading →

December 19, 2024 They were much too angry and type A to stand in line.  But they waited for their turn and one by one marched to the podium, faced the few assembled Congressmen not from their states, and held … Continue reading →

December is my busiest month.  The majority of my business clients prefer to renew or change their coverages as of January 1st.  New deductibles.  New Benefits.  New Year.  So wasting forty-five minutes of my time by taking a meaningless class … Continue reading →

Will you indulge me?  Will you return with me to a post I wrote on August 21, 2009?  That post, Stuck Inside, was about an insurance agent, me, trying to give a quick, off-the-cuff answer to the question, “So, what … Continue reading →