To help sign consumers up in coordination with the Affordable Care Act, Kaiser retail stores are
appearing in northern California and one in Oregon. Malls with a lot of foot traffic is where you find them. Below is a listing of where they are in California, so far just in the northern portion of the state.
Kaiser has hired about 40 navigators for the program which will be open for a year at least. Consumers can enroll in both Kaiser and non-Kaiser plans offered through the exchange.
In addition there’s the mobile vehicle van which travels around that will have secure internet connections and private rooms where consumers can enroll. The stores have IPads and personal computers to use for privacy when applying for credits and subsidies. So far over 8000 people chose Kaiser for their health insurance plan. BD
In a row of storefronts between Fuddruckers and Wal-Mart on McHenry Avenue, a major insurer is selling a government-mandated product that’s created quite a buzz this fall.
Kaiser Permanente chose the North Point Landing shopping center in north Modesto for one of its Shop KP stores, billed as a new way for consumers to shop for medical coverage.
The Shop KP store has iPads and personal computers mounted on tables, where staff members help customers look for plans on the Covered California health exchange or directly from Kaiser. Those who wish to start the enrollment process, or apply for tax credits to lower premiums, can sit down with staff in private cubicles.
http://www.modbee.com/2013/11/29/3060854/kaiser-opens-health-insurance.html
that I have seen, and there’s plenty of humor and he discusses a bit about his personal life and how Microsoft grew from the early days. He talks a bit about Steve Jobs and Apple and how they were friendly competitors and they financial help Microsoft gave them. It is funny listening to him talking about how he dropped out of Harvard. 
The contract with Terremark (Verizon) ends in March of 2014. I’m sure there’s reasons given but gee, the DOE has one of the fastest computers in the world that gives out space and had projects hosted, so why don’t the two agencies work together if they want server performance? This would certainly take care of any hardware issues with performance:)
clearance. Risk assessments and safety is the grounds for the FDA letter. Cancer tests are the big concern with saliva testing.
good one..full story at the link and a couple preview paragraphs below…
made a business swap to secure the Omni-Care infusion business. Nobody really pays a lot of attention to this business until something happens and that did occur with a security breach with 
and that’s when she was stabbed. It was not a a gun this time, he did all his damage with a knife. 
site is working for you. He waits long enough and the information comes up and this was done a few weeks ago so keep that in mind. He goes through applying with a health insurance site to compare. There’s a lot of questions versus the exchange site. He’s reading all of it too four our benefit. 
and not “bare bones” types of policies as we are finding out have been sold all over the US as they were “affordable” and are a step up for sure than not having insurance. The one big item that has helped in some ways and hurt in other ways is the pre-existing condition clause. It has helped as consumers can’t be denied coverage but on the other hand it has caused major havoc with risk pools and what the cost of a policy will be. 
dollar gets spent anymore. Here’s a 
treatment and avoided surgery. I don’t know how many times I see people promoting software that is “good for you” and then find out they don’t use it themselves but that’s the not the case here. 
so easy enough there.
and then medicine. He does set a lot of the standards in Health IT today as he’s one of those rare “finds” that has two areas of focus being an emergency care MD as well as a computer scientists. He gives his opinions of the Affordable Care Act and his thoughts with needing the data to provide better care. He built the IT infrastructure for Harvard Medical over the last couple of years. 
available in the event of a pandemic should it occur. It would be available for those over 18 years of age. So far world wide there has not been a need and most bird flu cases have been in Asia. BD 
Modeling is more important today than it has ever been. In no way does this mess compare to when Medicare started, it wasn’t that frigging complicated back then so toss that out the door if you think things are going to calm down, as they are not. 
n on Nov. 15, 2014 and end on Jan. 15, 2015 instead of the Oct. 15-Dec. 7 window previously announced. The date change, first reported by Bloomberg, also lengthens the enrollment period by a week. Doing so would give companies more opportunity to account for individuals, particularly young adults, who come in late during the plan’s first year, which has gotten off to a rocky start. The goal is premiums that more accurately reflect costs for those insured.
was under treatment for one genetic disorder diagnosis and then when she was taken to Boston Children’s Hospital, another diagnosis was given, one of a type of mental illness that would be causing her pain. 
says Justina’s father, Lou Pelletier.
that along with doctors automatically being opted in with Blue Cross, their reimbursement was looking to be around 30% less than what they receive from a standard commercial policy. Somebody just asked me about that the other day who signed up and I shared that information as and far as I know unless doctors in California sent a registered letter to opt out, they are automatically in network. This also recently changed a bit as doctors in the rural areas said no and Blue Shield on their contracts had to kind of back down. Too few doctors agreed to the 30% drop so Blue Shield had to revise their contracts allowing an opt in instead of the opt out to see exchange patients. I am not sure exactly what happened to the Blue Cross side of this. 
nd actually that was gone a long time ago. 
enough money around to invest in the housing market. United is the first and largest investor in the program named the Minnesota Equity Fund. With current economic conditions with banks and insurers controlling all the money these days, I guess this is the way to help solve the problem, turn more folks into renters that can’t find decent paying jobs? Google is also investing in low income housing to the tune of around $86 million. 
. It is a leading administrator of 
experience by many. The site is better but not completely stable as the combinations of items queried and the execute actions that follow up are varied as they change from individual to individual with putting together a different map with each enrollment. That’s the stable part the engineers are working to fix. I know, used to haunt me years ago and it’s a bear finding some of those glitches as some would do fine with querying certain patients and data related to medical records and others once in a while would “dive” so finding the “dive” bug can be a real challenge. We all know by now that we have yet more omissions with the creation of the website…you can read my rant below on that one…issues that set things off on the wrong foot from the beginning as the “data logic” in planning was not there.
, richer. If Walgreens pulls in about a billion a year on selling data just add the banks and tons of other companies in and you’ll see where the easy money is made, selling “our” data. 
Hypnotoad to work, can’t be any worse that some of what has shown up in apps. He’s an interesting character as the sound that comes along here is a recording of a turbine engine played backwards. Sounds reasonable to me as everyone has tried just about everything else. Yes there’s an IPhone and Android app for him. 
due to a judge putting it on hold. It was passed in 2011. Governor Rick Scott was hot after this bill convinced that Medicaid and Welfare recipients had too many druggies in the crowd. The state did have a four month run and had 108 negative tests and only 2.6 percent failed. The 
done and 
have you 2 doctors looking at you saying “what the f**k is not going to work when you get done this time”…and sometimes that would happen and back to the drawing board to hunt down another problem that the “fix” created..are you getting this yet?
