On Thursday, Oct. 12, President Trump signed an executive order (EO) aimed at deregulating several aspects of the health insurance market. The administration’s stated goal was to “improve access, increase choices and lower costs for health care.” The EO was light on details, and its impact is yet to be determined. The order seeks to…
Because of the rise in costs of conventional medical treatments, many patients nowadays are beguiled by their health insurance companies into undergoing considerably less expensive options such as step therapy. This “wealth before health” kind of thinking is actually futile and unwise, at best, since step therapy is never a good option in treating life-threatening…
The core business of an insurance company is usually to make profits. When meeting their obligations as the insurer, their first instinct is to find the cheapest solution possible in the market, sometimes this is done to the detriment of the insured. When you fall sick, the best way to move forward is to engage…