You Can Avoid Obamacare Nightmares with a Samaritan Membership
The media loves bad news, so the trainwreck that is Obamacare is getting a lot of press lately. Especially with the looming signup deadline of Mar 31 coming fast. I […]
What’s the Deal with Prorating?
** Please note (Sept 2020): Any prorating in the future is now expected to be a max of 3-5%, with a cap of $2500 so even very large needs won’t […]
How to Handle Paying for Medical Care Up Front
Whether you have health insurance or not, you may find that you are asked to pay for some procedures in advance, or at least a percentage of it. This used […]
Using the Health Care Blue Book
I should probably create a separate static page for this information, but for now I’ll just do a blog post. Are you aware of the healthcarebluebook.com? It’s a great site […]
January Growth is Largest Yet
Samaritan’s membership growth during the month of January is their largest yet, about 2 1/3 times larger than Decembers from what I can tell. The rollout of the ACA and […]
Got our Referral Credit This Month
Last November we referred a friend to Samaritan and we got our referral credit for it this month (Feb’s share). Our share was reduced accordingly, and as promised on this […]
Members in my own Hometown
I love being a member of Samaritan Ministries and wait patiently (more like impatiently) each month for our newsletter to see whose medical need we get to share. I love […]
Obamacare has a Deadline: 3/31/14
Foxnews says that most American’s don’t realize that Obamacare (ACA) signup has a fixed deadline. It’s Mar 31, 2014, about 2 months from this writing. It’s a deadline with yucky […]
Wake up America, You are Overpaying for Preventative Care
I think the biggest scam in the insurance world and the ACA is the theory that preventative care is now free on insurance plans. Nothing could be further from the […]
States can Seize Assets of Medicaid Patients after Death
More information is coming out about those people who are enrolling in Medicaid. Not all of them are aware that the states all have a right to recover Medicaid health […]
Managing Cash Flow
This is something our parents and grandparents knew to do before health insurance in this country morphed into prepaid healthcare. As a member of Samaritan paying for healthcare is back […]
ACA forcing families onto CHIP
According to this article: http://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/2014/01/07/moms-obamacare-hits-keep-coming-enroll-kids-in-chip-or-lose-subsidy/?intcmp=related there are families who are essentially being forced to put their children onto state CHIP coverage. It’s like medicaid just for children. This is a problem […]
It’s time to demand better pricing for healthcare
For some reason people are willing to buy the services of healthcare while rarely asking what anything costs. Outside of the corruption and power grab of insurance companies, I’m not […]
Got my share slip today
Today I received our monthly Samaritan newsletter and share slip telling us where to send our $370 (no Save to Share needs for us this month). I’ve already listed this […]