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Sun, Nov 2, 2025 Extrapolating from a KFF chart HERE , roughly 322,000 Wisconsinites get health insurance through the ACA Marketplace. For them, the Annual Open Enrollment has just started (11/1) and continues through December 15 th , for a January 1 effective date. Click HERE to see the Insurers offering coverage in each county. Compared to last year, you’ll note there are still multiple, albeit fewer, options. A couple of carriers are just gone! Reported ad nauseum, th

Sun Oct 19, 2025 Medicare has made shopping for Part D Drug Plans . . . . . . . well, so easy, even I can do it! Start HERE . Check 2026 and enter your Zip Code. (If you already have an account, log in.) For demonstration purposes, check 'Medicare drug plan', then ‘Find Plans.’ On the next screen, most of you will check ‘I don’t get help.’ Next screen, check that you do want to see drug costs. That’s as far as I can take you, because now you have to enter very pre

Sun, Oct. 12. 2025 For years, reading scores for MPS students have been unacceptably low, while trending in the wrong direction. One might hope that after taxpayers approved a $252 million-dollar referendum to increase school funding and hired an energized new Superintendent, things will improve. Now substitute premium payers for taxpayers. And, ABC, HIJ, RST or XYZ Health Systems for MPS. Hospital quality metrics – like reading test scores – are available through multip

Sun, Oct 5, 2025 Five weeks ago, I teased two New (School) Year’s Resolutions. ( Tip # 689 ) Both were related to wellness, as perhaps the only thing any of us can do to control health care costs.* Having made it through September, here’s the reveal. First, I dramatically changed my diet using the Yuca App ( Tip # 691 ) to identify UPF’s when shopping and, I’ve eliminated alcohol. The pre-dinner ritual of washing down a few snacks (mostly UPF’s) with a cocktail or two h