The Boston Marathon: One advisor’s story
From the mailbox
Man—what a heart wrenching story. I’m sitting here reading your piece on LifeHealPro.com and I’m crying and going oh wow, his family’s safe, then oh wow, his friends got hurt—oh man, the brother of the student who died of cancer got blown across a restaurant, oh no, what next? Don’t take this the wrong way but I was glad when your article was finished, I couldn’t take much more.
I definitely agree with Jeff Breese—it wakes you up and makes you tell people about accident insurance or disability or ADD whether the people buy it or not, just because of this crazy world we’re living in these days.
I think about the man who had just finished the race and hugged his son, only to have his son die after all his limbs were blown off right in front of him, his wife get hit in the head with shrapnel and suffer brain damage, and to watch his daughter get her leg blown off. My son is the same age and build as that boy, these stories just break my heart.
Man what a two weeks this has been between Boston and Texas.
Thanks for the article.
Brad Blosser
From the mailbox
I just searched online and found the article you wrote. All I can say is thank you. You captured my sentiments and feelings perfectly and wrapped in a broader context of the event and its impact. Now I’ve got an article to give to people instead of telling the story for the 600th time.
Great job.
Jeff
Will exchange users have to have medical homes?
Online letter
California must have been a mess before PPACA. In Kentucky, every piece of paper used by an insurance company for distribution to the public must be approved by the Department of Insurance. Never has a marketing piece done other than inform about benefits and rights. If this is already occurring in California, then there will be duplication. Also, by contract participating providers cannot balance bills. In Kentucky, the networks available, which extend nationally, do not result in out of network utilization and if an out of network provider is needed, the carriers negotiate with that provider so, for that service, the patient is going to an in network provider. While we don’t always wear shoes in Kentucky, prior to PPACA, everyone in Kentucky could have had health insurance, without exception
Onestep
California: Keep Tom, Dick and Harry out of group market
Online letter
Hope it is now clear to all that somewhere in the Federal Government—Pelosi or her staff, Waxman or his staff, the late Ted Kennedy or his former staffers—there are those who hate agents or anyone who works on commission or by the piece. (This would include bloggers who are paid by the article!) Agents and brokers are regulated, can get sued, can lose their licenses and have ethics requirements (Oh, so does Congress. Not a good example.) Why pay for a whole new unnecessary level of people who have little to no understanding of health care or health insurance.
Onestep
What can the boss tell workers about the exchanges
Online letter
Allison—help me out here. The model notice for employers that do NOT offer coverage has the same verbiage as the notice for employers that do. What is the point of talking about the impact of employer sponsored coverage when it isn’t offered?? Am I missing something? I know I have PPACA information overload this week but I don’t get this at all.
AbbyW
Mapping the PPACA world for agents and brokers
Online letter
A bunch of nonsense. I want to meet someone who ever got a check under PCIP. They didn’t pay anyone they just promised to pay us. Big difference.
As for NAHU and NAIFA they have collected millions of dollars from agents and done nothing for us over the last five years. Any agent that is still a member is wasting their money. We need an agent advocacy group in the worst way.
Donald Kirkendall