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A Hemophilia Health insurance coverage guide

Sometime ago Andy put together this great list of things you should know about your insurance coverage that is primarily targeted at people who have hemophilia and are struggling with their hemophilia health insurance issues. We hope this will help those of you seeking guidance on this subject.
Things you should know about your insurance coverage 
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Insurance Lifetime Caps Bill Introduced

The following news just came to me via email from NHF. If this bill eventually passes it would be an incredible accomplishment for our community and everyone faced with lifetime insurance cap issues. 
Lifetime Caps Bill Introduced  
On Friday, February 13, 2009, Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) and Jim Langevin (D-RI), along with Senators Byron Dorgan (D-ND) [...]

The Untouchables – Hemophilia and Health Insurance

This is a great story that appeared in the Desert News September 5, 2004. I was interviewed by the newspaper for part of the article. It has some incredible information about Hemophilia and how difficult it is to find coverage for this disease in today’s broken American health insurance system. I think you will find [...]

“Tax Free” Insurance Premiums

A couple of days ago I was interviewed for a piece on KUTV news about “Tax Free” Insurance Premiums. You can view the story here. Under IRS Code Section 125, individuals are allowed to use “tax free” dollars to pay for individually owned, qualified insurance policies for you, your spouse, and any tax dependents which are NOT sponsored by an employer.

Welcome to sweetaffliction.com – A Hemophilia Blog

So it begins…… Sweet Affliction is our blog about Hemophilia. Shall we say – the Hemophilia lifestyle. Much of it will be autobiographical in nature focusing on our experiences living with the disease.  Since we are both adults born prior to 1990, many of the stories and posts here will focus on HIV and Hepatitis [...]