If You Got ‘Em, Smoke ‘Em. Feel Free To Smoke President Obama.

I read an article in the Wall Street Journal this week suggesting that President Obama take the opportunity in this time of change to give up his smoking habit.  Take his new job as chance for a fresh start.  It certainly might freshen his breath, but that was not part of the article.
 
I have absolutely [...]

Ingenuity In The Private Health Care Market (like HSAs)

I just read a good opinion piece by Grace-Marie Turner of the Galen Institutee in The Philadelphia Inquirer which deftly pointed at the U.S. Government’s recent heavy hand in the private sector and braced us for that continuing into the private sector of health care as well.  Yeh, it’s coming.  For better or worse.
Believe you me, [...]

What Questions Should I Ask Myself When Making My Health Insurance Decisions?

Terrific article in the LA Times today by Francesca Lunzer Kritz .  It’s primarily geared toward folks with employer based insurance but really is a good guide for anyone trying to sift through the health insurance process.
Of key importance, DO NOT BE PASSIVE in your health care and health insurance decisions.  Think carefully about what your [...]

The Costco Connection – Do We Like Their Pharmacy?

A couple of weeks ago, I posted an article seeking input from customers of Costco’s pharmacy.  If you read the article, I was somewhat conflicted between an article I had read in their magazine and a personal experience my family had while trying to use the pharmacy many months before.  Having a High Deductible Health [...]

“If I Could Only Turn Back The Hands Of Time”–With A Health Savings Account You Can

As a general rule, I’m of the opinion that living in the past is a bad thing.  Memories are what life is all about, don’t get me wrong, but you can not make ‘em if you are pre-occupied living ‘em.  As a general rule…
The above said, when it comes to Health Savings Accounts, and specifically the months [...]

Supervalu Is Showing Its Colors

I’m sure the nutrition nazis would love to tell us exactly what we may and may not eat, what grocers may and may not sell, what restaurants must include on their menus in and in their food.  But thankfully, at least for today, they do not rule the day.
That said, personally, I do appreciate food [...]

Bubba On Beer, Yahoo and Health Savings Accounts

You might ask, what in the world do beer and Yahoo have to do with health savings accounts.  At least if you came to this post to learn something about HSAs.  While this blog is dedicated to HSAs, HDHPs, health and wellness, today, we stray.
I did not find the HSA inspiration I was hoping to find [...]

Are All Employees Covered By An HMO/PPO Blissfully Ignorant? What is An HSA?

If everything in life were logical, life would be blissfully boring.
Irrational behavior and decisionmaking is like putting a little pepper on ones food.  It spices things up.  It brings out the flavor.  It makes life more interesting.
People rationalize everything from what shampoo to buy, to their car payment, to their kids education to their healthcare, and [...]

Health Savings Account (HSA) Makers and Fakers; All On Twitter

Social Networking is still shrouded in mystery for me.  My first experience, I guess with social networking was with Linked-In many years ago.  I thought it would be a kind of cool way to keep track of folks (and it is) but that was about it (and still is).  My networking over the years has expanded [...]

Health Insurance vs. Cell Phone & Television

It seems like I spend my life dodging idiots or being an idiot, driving while talking on a cell phone.  And if you’ve read the news lately, you know the government can’t print enough coupons for the digital converters people must have in order to keep their old analogue TVs without cable or dish.
There are [...]