The Open Enrollment Period starts soon!
The Open Enrollment Period is from November 1st to December 15th in Idaho. This is your opportunity to reevaluate your individual health insurance plan if needed. Keep an eye out for any information or mail from the Department of Health and Welfare or Your Health Idaho. You may be required to provide updated financial information, […]
Buster Brown from Outa Town hits the road!
This week marked the first visit for Buster Brown who loves spreading the love and visiting Senior Centers. Here he is at The Terraces of Boise visiting and making people smile!!
Healthcare Reform
Healthcare reform is complicated. There has been a quiet, steady rise in employer coverage (call it group coverage) which is the largest insured group in the United States. Medicaid coverage comes in second, Medicare third, and then individuals who have to purchase their own insurance plan. While a Medicare for all plan would help the […]
September is Life Insurance Awareness Month!
To make sure Americans are reminded of the need to include life insurance in their financial plans, the nonprofit organization Life Happens coordinates Life Insurance Awareness Month. Each September, Life Happens is joined in this educational initiative by more than 100 of the nation’s leading insurance companies and industry groups. The main reason to buy […]
Your Personal Resource
There is great value in having an independent agent at your fingertips. At absolutely no cost to you, you have a local advocate when you need it most. I am here to assist you each and every year in evaluating new plans and plan changes that may affect you. I value our relationship and am […]
Medicare Advantage Plans continue to grow.
Medicare Advanatage Plans have grown from 18% to 30% as a proportion of the total Medicare spending from 2007 to 2017. Enrollment in Medicare Advantage plans has been steadily increasing over the measured decade from 2007 to 2017. 33% of Medicare beneficiaries were covered by Medicare Advantage plans in 2017, when ten years earlier, just 19% […]
Hang up on Medicare scams!
I had a client call me today to touch base and see if a call he had received was really from his Medicare plan or if it was a scam. Based on our conversation it was definitely a scam! The caller kept requesting more information from him and luckily he realized it was a scam […]