Archive for the 'Health Care' Category

One of the barriers to working full time at home or in a small business is the cost of health insurance. One of the biggest factors in the soaring costs is the price of medication. The system for approving drugs for certain diseases is rigged to favor deep pocket, patentable players. Things you buy now [...]

I think, overall, that Bush’s health insurance deductibility plan is a good move to make competition enter the field. But it may end up raising taxes for some. Right now, the cost of health insurance isn’t taxable to employees. Under the new plan, everything your employer pays for you will become taxable income. People whose [...]

One of the benefits of telecommuting or working at home is being free from the “epidemics” that can sweep through an office building or school (some schools near me are using “snow days” to shut down as “flu days” since we have no snow problems but massive flu problems this year!) But everybody has to [...]

Consumer Reports Best Buy Drug site is online to help consumers just in time for President Bush’s State of the Union message where he’s trying to spur market reform to help halt skyrocketing health care prices. Small business, home business, and other folks grappling with these costs should welcome this information. On the site, consumers [...]

The health insurance-government complex may not be able to keep costs low, but in the time worn model of business “if you can’t beat them, sue them” they tried to get the government to clamp down on a private association of individuals who voluntarily helped each other with their health insurance expenses. The monthly cost [...]

President Bush is proposing a new Health Insurance Tax Deduction … up to $7,500 for individuals an $15,000 for families to help bridge the gap between those who have health insurance already paid for by an employer and those on Medicare, Medicaid, and other government funded plans. It’s designed to make coverage more universal by [...]

Just before leaving town, politicians passed these tax breaks! Maybe you’ll get some year end good news! The bad news? Tax forms were printed wrong and your tax software might not have these udpates! 1. Sales Tax Deduction for states without Income Tax 2. Special deductions for qualified educators at primary and secondary schools (teachers, [...]

This one is so prone to making crazy jokes, I’ll try to resist except to say, please don’t try doing liposuction at home to fuel your diesel! Just read it for yourself Photo courtesy Jon Hague

Members of the Screen Actors Guild are insured by Cigna… the company has actually proposed charging them $44,000 per year for health insurance USA Today reports. Under the new rates, the most expensive plan in California will cost a family $3,685 a month, $44,220 a year. Less-expensive HMO plans will cost families $24,624. In New [...]

Health Care is one of the issues facing self employed and home business people. Here’s part of the insanity of the system. A lady I know wast prescribed folic acid – 1  milligram per day. This amount for some reason requires a prescription. She has insurance, went to get the prescription, and paid a $5.00 [...]