Health Insurance
The tangled web of healthcare reform
Healthcare reform (also referred to as Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act) has cheerleaders and it has detractors but there is one constant – it is long (at last check, 13,000 pages), and it is confusing. Lately, I’ve been spending a lot of time getting educated on the new healthcare Read more…
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Self-employed and need health insurance?
You are self-employed and need health insurance. So where do you start? It’s not as difficult to find a solution as you might think. There are several good insurance carriers out there and most of them offer individual insurance products. Each company’s product may resemble the other products available but there Read more…
Health Insurance
Finding Information About Healthcare Reform
Healthcare Reform is all the rage. It’s also known as The Patient and Protection Affordable Care Act or PPACA (the joke is that PPACA is like an alpaca but less warm and fuzzy). But what is it and how does it affect you? It was enacted in 2010 and came Read more…
Health Insurance
Employers Get Creative to Cut Insurance Premiums
This is an article that I wrote for the Nashville Business Journal Annual health insurance premium increases are leading employers to look for creative ways to reduce their costs. Predicted rate increases in 2013 are smaller than in recent years, but any increase takes its toll, sometimes even making employers Read more…
Health Insurance
Don’t Procrastinate Your Open Enrollment
This is an article I wrote for the Nashville Chamber‘s newsletter “HR Notes” It’s open enrollment time, and for some HR managers it’s about as fun to look forward to as a root canal. But putting it off won’t help. In fact, it can make the whole process even worse Read more…
Demystifying Insurance
It’s Open Enrollment Time!
If you are looking for benefits for your company, don’t look anywhere else. I will help you put together a group health insurance plan that best fits your needs. You might be looking to set something up for the first time or fix the plan you already have. Either way I can Read more…
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Why I do what I do, and how I do it.
Why do I sell insurance? What makes me different? Here are some thoughts. Why I do it I never imagined that I would enjoy the insurance business. What I did know when I started was that I liked helping people, solving problems, being independent, and working close to where I Read more…
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The 3 Most Common Misconceptions About Using an Insurance Agent
Misconception #1. It costs more to go through an agent than to buy direct. Whether you use an agent or buy direct, you pay EXACTLY the same amount. The difference is that, when using an independent agent, you get free advice and guidance – allowing you to compare the rates Read more…
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The advantages of setting up a ‘cafeteria plan’
This is an article I wrote for the Nashville Chamber‘s HR Notes newsletter Have you set up a cafeteria plan for your payroll? If not, you shouldn’t put it off any longer. Cafeteria plans are so nicknamed because they allow employers and employees to choose “a la carte” benefits. More Read more…