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Posted in COBRA, Healthcare on Oct 8th, 2009
The most common questions I receive from this blog regards COBRA health insurance benefits.
Let’s review eligibility.
If your company has 20 or more employees enrolled in a group plan who have worked at least half the year, you are eligible for COBRA coverage. This includes full and part-time workers.
Under COBRA, if you voluntarily resign from [...]
Posted in Editorials, Healthcare, Healthcare Reform on Sep 17th, 2009
In an article in today’s Huffington Post. we learn that the South Carolina Supreme Court has ordered an insurance company to pay $10 million for wrongly revoking the insurance policy of Jerome Mitchell, a 17-year-old college student after he tested positive for HIV. The court called the 2002 decision by the insurance company “reprehensible,” demonstrating an indifference to [...]
Posted in Editorials, Healthcare, Healthcare Reform on Sep 11th, 2009
Rep. Joe Wilson, the latest cause célèbre of the GOP and radical right, continues to assert that the pending health-reform bill will cover illegal aliens – a truly awful phrase, let’s go with undocumented workers.
To be exact, Section 246 on page 143 of the bill says nothing about “non-US citizens” or immigrants, legal or [...]
Posted in Editorials, Healthcare, Healthcare Reform on Sep 6th, 2009
I find it mind boggling that the GOP has hijacked the Obama administration’s healthcare reform initiative even to the point of seeking raucous town hall-type meeting with miss-informed, angry citizens.
The September 7, 2009 issue of Newsweek has an outstanding piece on “The Five Biggest Lies in the Health Care Debate” by Sharon Begley. Everyone should [...]
Posted in Editorials, Healthcare on Jul 1st, 2009
For those who follow my blog, I am sure that you have noticed a “silence” over the past month and a half. Well there is a reason. On May 12, I underwent total hip replacement surgery. This came on very quickly – actually with only six days advance notice.
For the first seven [...]
Posted in Editorials, Healthcare on Jun 6th, 2009
As we begin to considered universal healthcare for all Americans, it is amazing how the same “objections” that deep-sixth the Clinton attempt to provide coverage to more Americans is reading its ugly head.
An outstanding article entitled “Eight Myths About Health Care Reform” is featured in the July-August 2009 issue of The AAPR Magazine. It [...]
Posted in Editorials, Healthcare on Mar 30th, 2009
Pope Benedict XVI has just proven that he is not only mean but just plain crazy. During a visit to Africa last week, the pope said the use of condoms increased HIV infection rates. As someone who worked in U.S. AIDS services for ten years, we have known since the early 1980s that consistent [...]
Posted in COBRA, Healthcare on Mar 25th, 2009
Department of Labor releases model notices on COBRA premium subsidies
As part of the stimulus package recently passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama, you may be eligible for tremendous assistance in paying for your COBRA benefits if you are out of work (here is an explanation of COBRA benefits). Losing a [...]
Posted in Editorials, Healthcare on Mar 5th, 2009
Today is an important day. Today, the White House convened its first meeting on healthcare reform. I spent most of the day listening to the meeting on C-SPAN. Sixteen years ago, when I was executive director of the National Association of People of AIDS, I was involved in the Clinton healthcare reform [...]
Posted in Activism, Editorials, Ethics, Healthcare, Student Loan Forgiveness on Mar 12th, 2008
A March 11, 2008 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education notes that the American Association of Medical Colleges and the American Medical Association have written a joint letter asking Congress to reverse the Department of Education’s decision to end a program that has allowed new physician graduates to lower student loans and defer interest [...]
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