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Woo Hoo Health Care
Wow. Two pieces of good health care news in two days. Imagine that. Today, I called Washington Health Benefit Exchange, also known as Washington Healthplan Finder, also known as wahbexchange.org. In less than five minutes I learned that I didn’t … Continue reading
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Tagged ACA, diabetes, health, health care, health insurance, healthcare, innovation, naturopath, real estate, real estate broker
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Health Insurance Confusion 2017
I’m happy to thank Jasmine, Joe, Adrienne, Christine, Glenn, Kathleen, and Bill. Oops. Sorry. That Bill should be a bill, but we’ll get to that. Thanks to their efforts, the efforts of folks in the industry, and an orphaned bill … Continue reading
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Tagged ACA, health, health care, health insurance, Kaiser Permanente, Molly Fox, naturopath, Premera, real estate, WA Health Plan Finder
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Popular Posts 2016
Writing is an interesting exercise. Writing about personal finance is particularly interesting to me because I treat finance as something personal, emotions included. And yet, deciding what to write is always a guess. What will people care about? I tend … Continue reading
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Tagged ACA, health, health insurance, healthcare, housing, investing, LTBH, Make Me Move, Microvision, MVIS, ObamaCare, personal finance, stocks, Whidbey, writing, zillow
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Health Insurance Confusion 2016
A toast, to paying for something I don’t quite understand yet is in my second highest expense category: health insurance. Yet again, I’m enrolled. It only took hours and days of effort to pay for something I haven’t been able … Continue reading
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Tagged ACA, foreclosure, frugal, frugality, health care, health insurance, housing, insurance, jobs, ObamaCare, personal finance, Walking Thinking Drinking Across Scotland, wealth, Whidbey
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Tricky Taxes Trips And Traps
Thanks, Elizabeth. It was time to file my taxes, and some fluky results in TurboTax were nicely resolved by Elizabeth from their help desk. Thanks to all my friends I called while fighting off anxiety attacks as I struggled through … Continue reading
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Tagged 1099, 1099 Economy, ACA, Art, books, community, consulting, dance, frugal, frugality, Gig Economy, health care, healthcare, housing, investing, LTBH, mortgage, ObamaCare, Panama Papers, personal finance, photos, self employed health insurace, stocks, taxes, TurboTax, wealth, Wealth Inequality, writing
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Things To Look Forward To In 2015
2014 was better than 2013. 2015 has to be better than 2014. While that may be a personal wish, it is also a global one because some things continued to get worse in some topics while good news came in … Continue reading
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Tagged ACA, cars, decentralized, economy, employment, frugal, frugality, graphene, Great Depression, Great Recession, health care, healthcare, housing, investing, jobs, markets, minimalism, ObamaCare, personal finance, Simple Living, solar, stocks, Tiny Houses, transportation, unemployment, war
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Insurance Maintenance And Repair
It costs less to live healthily than it does to pay for health insurance. Unfortunately, health insurance is required. Living a healthy lifestyle isn’t. A healthy lifestyle drops in priority because of financial pragmatism. Insurance, which can be a good … Continue reading
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Tagged ACA, bicycling, dancing, health care, healthcare, hiking, Karate, ObamaCare, personal finance, skiing
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Unused And Necessary Obamacare
It was with a great sigh of relief when I signed up for Washington State’s version of Obamacare last year. I wasn’t looking for a change in my health insurance. Despite the high cost I kept paying my original premiums, … Continue reading
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Tagged ACA, health care, insurance, investing, mortgage, ObamaCare, wealth, writing
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The Day After The ACA Deadline
The deadline passed. Obamacare, ACA, the Affordable Care Act, the great grandiose pack of wonders or horrors depending on your point of view reached and surpassed its quota of subscribers. The wonders and horrors are already being touted. It sounds … Continue reading
Rube Goldberg Manages Healthcare
Rube Goldberg would be proud. My journey through the officially mandated revision to my health care plan led me on a far adventure with grand vistas and worrisome territories. I was sure that I’d be shunted aside on detours, but … Continue reading
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Tagged ACA, business, consulting, Facebook, foreclosure, health care, healthcare, housing, mortgage, ObamaCare, Rube Goldberg, Shakespeare, taxes, Twitter, Whidbey
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