Monthly Archives: November 2011

Here is a real response from a potential client, to a proposal made by one of my fellow brokers:

Thanks for the info, That’s good that they have created something like this. Unfortunately I’m not in the market for insurance- not sure what my mom told you..You see, I can walk into any hospital, rack up charges, and never pay it – like millions of other people. That is my insurance, the fact that I can walk in and get anything I need when I need it, if I need it. And eventually all bill collectors give up. By… Read the rest

Now that Obama’s CLASS Act has crashed and burned, you may be wondering what ever happened to his much-vaunted high-risk pools.

The administration has not been making much of it – a sure sign that it must be failing. And so it is. On October 14 it posted the enrollment data as of August 31, 2011. It turns out that 13 months after the pools went into effect, 33,958 people had enrolled, less than 10% of the 375,000 CMS predicted would be enrolled by the end of 2010.

It is not for lack of effort. In July of this year,… Read the rest