State park trail entry point.

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Tales from the pilgrimage.

health insurance

  • The Health Care Abomination that is America

    Dec. 15 is the deadline to sign up on the ACA marketplace for health insurance effective Jan 1, 2025. When I left the company and career of 25 years, securing health insurance was an issue. That was July 2009. There were no easy options, so I stayed on COBRA coverage. The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation… Read more

  • Late Fall Near the Lake

    The good news about finishing three full weeks at the home, farm and auto supply store is the company offers health insurance that meets the Internal Revenue Service “minimum value standard” for less money than coverage available through the government’s health insurance marketplace or elsewhere. The bad news is all of the pay from this… Read more

  • Blogging the ACA

    When I had my first colonoscopy there was no President Obama, no Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, I hadn’t begun blogging, and I was on my employer’s health insurance plan. The company I worked for would have liked nothing better than to present a cash payment to employees in lieu of paying their 65… Read more