John Nelson
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John Nelson

John Nelson has long been a champion of legislative and educational efforts in the health insurance industry. He is a Chief Executive Officer of Warner Pacific Insurance Services, one of the nation’s largest health insurance general agencies serving over 35,000 small employers with over $1.5 billion of inforce premium.

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Healthcare Reform and the Courts, Part 3
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Understanding the details of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, its legal challenges and what this all really means to our industry and, most importantly, the American public is fundamental in empowering them to look in the right direction for answers to a complicated question that is facing all of us — who is going to treat us when we need medical care and how are we going to pay for it?|

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Healthcare Reform and the Courts, Part 2
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The Florida Court agreed with the states on both counts. Basically, the court said that the government cannot compel people to engage in an activity like buying health insurance. That authority is left to the states. And they agreed that this portion of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was not severable and, therefore, the whole thing is unconstitutional.|

Healthcare Reform and the Courts, Part 1
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is over 2,700 pages long and affects virtually every aspect of healthcare delivery and its related financing (the insurance component) including Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers.|

What Agents Must Know About The Mechanics Of America's Healthcare Delivery System
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The fundamental problem with the American healthcare system is that we hardly spend any money on basic, general care which causes us to spend a whole bunch of money on specialty care. The fact is that five chronic diseases account for 70% of our country's $2.6 trillion annual healthcare expenditures. Those diseases are coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, diabetes, depression and asthma. The status quo of the way we deliver healthcare is conducive to inadequate management of chronic illness.|