It has been a crazy year. I can’t remember another year when healthcare took precedent over every single aspect of life for many Americans.

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The hardest working Americans are struggling, and there truly is no end in sight. We thought that perhaps healthcare reform would bring some relief to those middle class Americans who continue to fall through the cracks, but, alas, that is far from the truth. In fact, the latest version of the healthcare reform bill, according [...]

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Healthcare, insurance, co-pays, deductibles, premiums, coverage; this is what applicants are asking about in interviews. Applicants aren’t asking about wages, nor bonuses or raises; they are asking about health insurance and healthcare. This is what our job market has come to. It’s become so twisted, so distorted that American workers are willing to work harder [...]

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Well, healthcare reform has been stupefied yet again. Remember last week when we posted the blog about how a deal had been reached, how the public option had been dropped and the Medicare buy-in was the replacement? Well, apparently we were mistaken. A healthcare agreement had been reached, but on this roller coaster we call [...]

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The Fry’s and Safeway strike in Arizona has been averted, for now. Breaking news this morning claims that union talks have been successful, and some sort of agreement has been reached. But what was the whole debacle about anyways? Health care, of course.
 

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The healthcare reform bill squeaked through the House this weekend by a vote of 220-215. A lot was given up, and a lot was said during the soap-opera-like final discussions on the bill, but in the end it was passed and it moves onto the Senate, where it will no doubt meet some even tougher [...]

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Let’s talk executive physicals and why some people love to give them a bad rap. If you watch The Biggest Loser, you know exactly what an executive physical is, because I imagine is pretty much the same thing. When the contestants get their first real exam, they are put through a variety of tests, machines, [...]

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Looking for the H1N1 vaccine? Well, if you’re looking online you’re probably running into a lot of headlines that read “H1N1 Vaccine Shortage” or “Flu Shot Clinic Canceled Due To H1N1 Shortage.” It’s not so much those headlines that are making people scratch their heads, it the headlines right next to those that say “Guantanamo [...]

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The big man, our CEO Chad wrote a very interesting piece the other day about business penalties and healthcare. Check it out for yourself:
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“Man—every man—is an end in himself, not the means to the ends of others. He must exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself. The [...]

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Healthcare and bankruptcy are two terms that, unfortunately, these days go hand in hand. Did you know that out of everyone who filed bankruptcy in 2007 (already on track to hit 1.4 million bankruptcies nationally in 2009), 62% of them were medically related. And of those healthcare bankruptcies, 78% of them had some form of [...]

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