Health web site from your federal government: coming soon

by Bradley on June 26, 2010

The Kaiser Family Foundation/Health News discusses the new site coming from the Health and Human Services department.
Not that I don’t have faith in the HHS to put together an informative, easy-to-use site that will encompass every public and private option available to residents living in 50 states, each with their own specific health insurance laws….
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Interest in HSA’s Continues for Small Business and Individuals

by Bradley on June 26, 2010

More than eighty percent of my small business clients offer an HSA-compatible health plan as an option to their employees. Some of them partially fund accounts for the employees to help offset the high deductibles, and still find that this is the most cost-efficient way to finance employee health care.
Ditto for individuals and families. [...]

“Firestorm” airs May 16 at 6pm on KQED in the Bay Area

May 14, 2010

A client forwarded me this trailer, and I am eager to see the hour-long documentary on Sunday (thanks, Allan).
An ambulance gets turned away by an overcrowded ER every minute in the U.S.
22,000 deaths per year can be attributed to not having health insurance. Which makes it the 6th leading cause of death, ahead of [...]

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Immediate effects of health care reform on small business

April 5, 2010

On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed into law H.R. 3590, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).
This piece of legislation is 2,500 pages long, and all of its details are still being sorted out.  Allpointe will stay on top of the changes, and provide you with periodic updates.  If you have questions [...]

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March 2, 2010 COBRA subsidy extension

March 12, 2010

Employee Benefit News has an excellent summary of the extension and modifications of the COBRA subsidy program.

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Anthem Blue Cross rate hikes

February 21, 2010

Even if you are not an Anthem Blue Cross subscriber, it would be hard not to have heard about the recently announced rate hike for many California subscribers.  If not, you can read about it here (LA Times, 2/14), here (SF Chronicle, 2/14), and here (NY Times, 2/16).
For additional perspective, here is the full letter [...]

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Window closing on COBRA subsidy?

February 21, 2010

The most recent iteration of the current jobs bill being considered by the Senate has stripped out a second extension of the 65% COBRA subsidy for certain laid-off workers, according to the Christian Science Monitor (2/11).
With Congress back in session this week, we should get an idea of whether the subsidy will be added back [...]

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SF Health Care Security Ordinance – Feb 2010 update

February 16, 2010

Find out everything you need at the San Francisco OLSE web site
Summary of updates from Joannie Chang on 2/12/2010:
Newly Revised Documents
The Annual Reporting Form (ARF) for 2009 has been uploaded to our website
as a fillable PDF; to download this document, please use the link provided
in the section titled “Forms & Documents.”   Pre-printed ARFs will also be
mailed [...]

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Small Business California – Annual Survey

February 10, 2010

Scott Hauge and Small Business California have been tireless advocates for California small businesses over the past few years.  Their agenda is your agenda.  That is, if you participate by completing their annual survey.
SBC is a non-partisan group.  I am involved in several other small business advocacy organizations, and I find SBC to be the [...]

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Health Coverage for All

January 20, 2010

Rather than add to the thousands upon thousands of words already written about how and why Scott Brown defeated Martha Coakley in last night’s Massachusetts special election (personally, I think it was the Schilling gaffe that sunk her), I want to spend a couple of minutes on two key elements of reform that few people [...]

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