Group Health Insurance Plans for Individals and Small Business

10/04/2025

The exact depth of the health care benefits reductions offered under federal programs by the bills recently passed by the Republican Congress will likely be to reduce health care benefits and increase the monthly premium bills that the employer groups and the individuals pay every month.

The result will be a sharp growth in the number of uninsured companies and individuals. What will happen to individual and small groups.

08/27/2024

The last U.S. President to immediately wage and price controls was none other than Richard Nixon in 1971 and a majority of Republicans supported their President.

At the time not many people had private insurance, but seniors and the eligible disabled had health insurance in large numbers because they had signed up for the newly implemented Medicare program of mandated benefits.

Union workers could still negotiate for improvements to employee benefits, that was not subject to the new wage and price controls policy. For example, the Communications Workers of America was able to get the Telephone companies to add fully paid Medical Insurance coverage to their large employers contracts with the union workers.

More to be reported on this subject tomorrow.

Having worked on Bobby Kennedy’s 1968 campaign headquarters I read and distributed the issues report of the campaign that included a section on Medicare that acknowledged the need to control medical insurance premium costs and expand benefits.

As Joseph Raugh, the head of the Americans for Democratic Action and Millie Jeffries of the United Auto Workers, reported to me and others many years later, the original Medicare Bill included coverage for all, not just the eligible senior citizens.

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06/05/2024

France and Germany said Tuesday that Ukraine should be allowed to use their weapons against targets inside Russia from which Moscow attacks Ukraine.

01/19/2024

Has there been reporting this year on the rate of health insurance premium increase by state effective January 1, 2024.

There has been a lot of talk about Flex Cards with $2,000 worth of new benefits and all one has to do is give up your Medicare supplement or advantage plans to get dental benefits. That is not the way it is supposed to work when the people are peddled a bill of goods .

12/15/2023

NASRO Group Open enrollment to shop for health plans is here, along with a similar choice of health plans for Self Employed people who work for themselves.

11/10/2023

This is an easy call of human rights violations. Revenge will not bring back the dead. Where are the Israeli hostages? Hospitals are off limits from deliberately bombing under international law and treaties. Stop!

The biggest hospital in the Gaza Strip came under bombardment on Friday, the World Health Organization said, adding that more than half of Gaza's hospitals were now out of action. US Secretary of State…

11/07/2023

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11/02/2023

Some how despite all the adversity of the past three years with COVID and the largest wildfires seen in anyone’s living memory, our health care delivery systems can not keep up with the need for affordable health care.

Our insurance companies do not belong with an expanded role because with a few exceptions, they do not care about the working people having the same promises of

12/05/2022

Planning is very important to a successful launching of new benefit plans. This particularly true for anyone born in 1987 and after.

There are improved health care benefits for people and employer groups who can afford them. But the communication is primarily in the hands of the health insurance and health care industrial complex.

As with so many aspects of modern life the consequences of inequality remains the responsibility of the individuals who have lives to lead. Health care needs less turmoil and more stability.

This turmoil is compounded when individuals discover that all their health plans do provide many plans that cost too much and cover too little. They do not provide enough coverage or freedom of choice. What is missing is a society united to furnish the commitment to the common good that allows big problems to be solved.

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07/14/2020

The rush by most Governors to open up mass personal interaction, political blindness, the counter messaging of Donald Trump denying there is a public health crisis, let alone lead an operational plan and instead a Federal Emergency Response has lead to disaster throughout the US south and west.

Now is the time to check the group health insurance coverage you have to make sure your staff is ready to pay for large amounts of their income on deductibles and coinsurance costs that their health insurance does not cover. The risk of people getting sick has increased greatly.