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Insurance Blog Week in Review – Week of February 5-11, 2012

The Insurance Blog Week in Review gives you an easy way to “ketchup” on all the blogs that were posted this week. In a given week, there can be anywhere from twelve to fourteen different articles that appear on the Insurance Blog. Lately, news about insurance is intertwined with politics. This definitely makes things interesting! The Insurance Podcast Roundup for the week went up on February 6, 2012. Federal Government Says No to California’s Medi-Cal Co-Pays Governor Jerry Brown made a plan that required the low-income people who use Medi-Cal to pay a co-pay before they could be seen by … Continue reading →

UCSF Might do Transplant for Navarro After All

After much public outrage, it seems that the University of California -San Francisco Medical Center (UCSF) may have agreed to preform the kidney transplant that Jesus Navarro needs. However, the hospital still wants proof that he can pay for the follow up care. The hospital says he was not denied specifically because he is in the United States illegally. Jesus Navarro is 35 years old. He has a wife, and a three year old daughter. He had been working, full time, at the Pacific Steel Foundry for fourteen years. He somehow managed to continue to work full time while in … Continue reading →