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Why would a Health Insurance video be banned from Facebook?

  Hey, it’s The Suzie @ Wenatchee Insurance,  working with the Washington Healthplanfinder. We have had an office on Wenatchee Avenue for over six years now. We assist people navigate, understand, and enroll in Health, Life, Medicare Insurance to name a few. There is eleven enrollment centers spread throughout the state to assist folks. We help everyone that walks through our door or gives us a call. It is however getting tougher to reach folks. Here is the banned video on Facebook. Vivian was a friend of a friend that needed assistance and we were able to help out. Community is really about people helping people without judgement.  Unfortunately, we live in a politically charged world so getting the information out to the people that need it is not always easy. Every year, it gets tougher to spread the word about help being available. This year, we had to register for the first time as a Health Insurer to be able to do outreach on Google. That’s correct, we have to re...

Women's Healthcare, Washington State, Abortion and Providence Health Plan

Women's health is important. Not only are they half the population, women are capable of carrying the next generation. With the U.S. maternal mortality rate more than doubling from 1991 to 2014, we can do better. Yes, women's healthcare is tremendously important if we are focused on improving our nation. Together we can change. We are seeing some cause and effect results of bad policies.  Cervical Cancer mortality rates rise as women's health clinics close. Researchers found this trend as nearly 100 women's health clinics across the county closed from 2010 to 2013. The greatest impacted under these closures were Hispanic, uninsured and young women. The closure of these clinics reduced screening and because cancer was identified later increased deaths. Gender bias can have catastrophic results . Women may have different complaints than men — even with similar health conditions — and they experience pain differently, but most doctors are trained to identify and ...

Trumpcare will it work for me?

Healthcare is complicated. We have seen marketers and a few insurance companies use the term Trumpcare for the last couple of years with mixed results. There was even the South Florida-based operation called Simple Health Plans that was shut down by the Feds that collected more than $100 million. ( Seriously, read this before putting your information on an unknown site .)I am going to talk about a few of the niche markets being pushed by the administration. 1. Short Term Plans - In Washington state, these plans are heavily restricted. We are talking 90 day non renewable. They can exclude pre-existing conditions and can exclude treatments and overages. As I write this I am aware of 1 company offering a plan that has made it through the Office of the Insurance Commissioner's standards. With the amount of coverage excluded, we feel that a customer is best served by purchasing a full health-plan for a short period of time. We have had new customers come to us over the years...