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JD Ward's Insurance Information and Advice-Covered California Tax Credit

For those that get their health insurance through Covered California and are receiving a tax credit to help subsidize your health insurance premiums.  Please read this important article below…

JD Ward's Insurance Information and Advice - Medicare

Medicare can be a very convoluted and daunting entity, for a PALS to try and navigate. I will attempt to make things a little more clear with this article. Now there is a lot of information, in regards to medicare, and one could go crazy, trying to understand what is covered and what isn’t. So, I will explain the basics of medicare, what it covers, secondary insurance plans, how a PALS is eligible, and in home health care, related to PALS. In home health care is the number one concern for PALS and their families, because being a primary care giver for a loved one that is a PALS, can be extremely exhausting physically, and emotionally. I know this first hand with my friend Steve Gleason from the many times that I have helped, I can only imagine what a toll it must take on someone doing it on a day to day basis. So here we go…