Another ObamaCare element appears dead on arrival, the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act, the “Class Act”, has shown to be another unaffordable provision of the federal government’s intrusion into yours and my health care decisions. Although not having been rescinded by congressional action, CLASS appears now to have been kicked to the curb [...]

New for 2012…Medicare Annual Election Period starts October 15, 2011, running through December 7,2011….a change from prior years. During that window of opportunity, qualified Medicare Beneficiaries can enroll in Medicare Advantage Plans to be effective on January 1, 2012. Those already enrolled in a Medicare Advantage Plan can disenroll from or change to a different [...]

If you have been following the ObamaCare saga through its court hearings and federal appeals courts decisions, you know that the suit brought by twentysix (26) states is finally on track for a hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court. As the states can’t simply present a challenge to ObamaCare saying ,”It just ain’t right, judge”, [...]

First, I want to thank all of you who have taken time to respond to my blogs and to comment on my website. Several hundred of you are sending your comments every week and that is very humbling. I appriciate your support and, sometimes, constructive suggestions about improvement. When time allows, I respond to your [...]

Well, it’s around 5:00 PM here in Paradise, as our latest hurricane scare plows north to scour clean the streets of the Big Apple. For you newbies, Paradise is beautiful Ponte Vedra Beach, home of the PGA and ATP Tours, in the No-Income-Tax state of Florida. Now that the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in [...]

This has absolutely nothing to do with anything, but in 1927 the opera Schwanda the Bagpiper was first performed at the Czech National Opera in Prague. Schwanda had been married to Dorota for a week when the local robber, Babinsky, took refuge in Schwanda’s house and fell in love with Dorota. (Hey. It’s an opera [...]

A finding in favor of the Obama Administration was handed down in early July ’11, by a three (3) judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati. Long story, short, the Court, by a two to one vote, sided with ObamaCare’s mandate that you and I must obtain health insurance or [...]

Beginning in the pre-dawn hours of Tuesday, June 6, 1944, world changing events began to unfold off France’s Normandy coast. The largest armada ever assembled began to land U.S. and allied soldiers on the beaches at dawn, while in the earlier darkenss paratroopers descended from the sky to disrupt the entrenched german army from the [...]

Many years ago, I ghost wrote an article to be placed in an insurance company’s monthly publication. Yesterday it surfaced as I was sending several boxes of old files to the shredder. Written on a typewriter (an ancient mechanical device in use when Bill Gates was still in diapers) on now yellowing paper, it is [...]

The Good: Patents on several popular but expensive drugs are expiring over the next several months, meaning their much cheaper generic forms will appear on the scene soon after. Lipitor loses its patent protection in November this year. Actos, a diabetes drug, and Plavix, a blood thinner, will go generic in the next couple years. [...]