Monthly Archives: February 2015

GOP’s plan for the future would take us backward

If Republicans have their way with health insurance reform and you live in a Red state, you are screwed. Why? Because Republicans would like to turn over much of the decision making about your health insurance to individual states, and the overwhelming majority of states with Republican legislatures don’t have much of a track record… Read More »

The Obamacare penalty: facts and fiction

EDITOR’S NOTE: As part of healthinsurance.org’s continuing coverage of the 2014-2015 Obamacare open enrollment period, we recently published a 38-page eBook, The Insider’s Guide to Obamacare’s Open Enrollment. Authored by contributor Louise Norris, the publication book is filled with advice written to help consumers more easily – and more quickly – navigate this open enrollment… Read More »

13 Ways Inflammation Can Affect Your Health

1 of 15 Too much of a good thing by Amanda MacMillan You’ve heard of anti-inflammatory medications and anti-inflammatory diets, but do you really know what inflammation is? In short, it’s the body’s response to outside threats like stress, infection, or toxic chemicals. When the immune system senses one of these dangers, it responds by… Read More »

Winner, winner, chicken dinner

What if I told you that I had a way you could win $700 without putting any of your money at risk, and it would pay off 70 percent of the time. Would you play? Imagine walking into a Las Vegas casino, sitting down to a game of cards, and without risking any money of… Read More »

10 Ways to Make Your Bedroom Sexier

1 of 12 Create a sexy space by Jessica Migala Your days are busy, so the place where you spend your nights—your bedroom—may reflect that, with laundry piled high in the corner and last night’s PJs still hanging out next to the bed. But distractions like those can put the brakes on a romantic interlude.… Read More »

How subsidy-eligible enrollees got ‘false negatives’

Reaching the uninsured once the Affordable Care Act exchanges launched was always going to be a long, hard road. In 2014, 7 million Americans bought private health insurance plans on the exchanges, meeting the first-year forecast of the Congressional Budget Office, and about as many again enrolled in Medicaid under the ACA’s expanded eligibility rules.… Read More »