Mitch's Blog

I’ve had to catch up with what’s going on with this health care bill, and frankly, I’m at a crossroads with it. This is the worst part about politics; you never quite get what you want, and you’re stuck having to figure out which way to go because you hate parts of everything you’re supposed […]

A couple of days ago, I presented for the first hour of a meeting for the Mid York Medical Accounts Management Association, of which I’m a board member and 2-time president. Once I was finished, our second presenter, from the New York State Insurance Department, and was going to talk about no fault billing. About […]

Strange as it sounds, it seems that there’s a difference in outcome for visitors to the emergency room based on whether a person has insurance or not. A study by Harvard University showed that uninsured patients with traumatic injuries, such as car crashes, falls and gunshot wounds, were almost twice as likely to die in […]

I had lunch today with another health care consulting friend of mine, George Chapman. I also do work on his website, and he participated in my interview series. We started talking about health care coverage for the uninsured, and I was mentioning my idea of a health care plan to him. He said it wouldn’t […]

Back in June, there was a poll that came out saying the majority of people in this country wanted universal health care coverage, and they were willing to pay for it. As a matter of fact, the number wasn’t even close; 85% favored it. So, I’m wondering just what’s happened in the last two months […]