Day: November 18, 2009

Half guilty, half pregnant Arnulfo Olivarez, self-admitted felon, has had his upcoming November 24 sentencing postponed to March 4, 2010. It seems that the Wheels of Justice turn ever so slowly.

He has petitioned the court to allow him to contact school districts again as a means to continue his insurance livelyhood. Despite pleading guilty (August 2008) to bribing public school officials in return for lucrative insurance contracts, the Texas Department of Insurance continues to approve his insurance license renewals – he remains an active insurance agent.

According to Texas Department of Insurance, Olivarez currently represents Aetna, American Heritage, American Zurich, Anthem, Assurance Company of America, Aviva Life Insurance, BCS Life Insurance Company, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Texas, Conseco, Cypress Texas LLoyds, Delta Dental, Empass Indemnity, Foremost County Mutual, Hartford, HM Insurance, Golden Rule Insurance, Humana, John Alden Life Insurance Company, Kanawha, Lincoln Benefit Life Insurance Company, Maryland Casualty Company, National Union Fire, New Era Life Insurance Company, New York Life Insurance Company, Northern Insurance Company of New York, Pacificare, Pan American, Principle, Prudential, Southern County Mutual, Standard Insurance, Sun Life, Transamerica Occidental, Unicare, United Healthcare, and Unum Life Insurance Company of America.

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  Insurance Agent Arnulfo C. Olivarez

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20091117/FREE/311179968#

As a friend wrote this morning, the Federal Government can not run a health care system much less manage a two car funeral procession. 

 

 

The Left’s health care “reform” plan will dramatically expand eligibility for Medicaid, a poorly-functioning program created in the 1960s to help low-income families.

Heritage Foundation expert Conn Carroll explains:

The Health care “reform” bills advancing in the House and Senate would expand Medicaid by making this government-run health plan available to all adults with incomes at or below 150% of the poverty line. The change would dramatically multiply eligible recipients, with 46 states seeing increases of at least 20%, including 16 posting jumps of 50% or more. Almost 21% of the entire U.S. population would be eligible for Medicaid and seven states and the District of Columbia would have eligibility rates of at least 25%.

Meanwhile, Heritage Vice President Stuart Butler debunks liberal myths about the proposed “trigger,” which would create a government-run health care “public option” if other reforms fail to work. This mechanism, he explains, provides few incentives to experiment with new approaches and its criteria would be hard to measure.

The Senate version of the health care bill, which has been written in secret, will probably be revealed this week, Heritage’s Brian Darling explains. The House narrowly passed its bloated big-government bill earlier this month.