Jon Rauser's weekly Tip on how to navigate the complicated world of health insurance and more.
Published: Sun, 09/21/25
Updated: Sun, 09/21/25
Tip # 692 - PREPARING FOR OPEN ENROLLMENT SEASON October 15th is just around the corner. (How can that be?!) That’s the start of the Medicare Open…
Published: Sun, 09/14/25
Updated: Sun, 09/14/25
Tip # 691 - WHAT ARE UPFs? One of the best ways to lower health care costs (in a perfect world, premiums too) is to practice wellness. Agreed? UPFs…
Published: Sun, 09/07/25
Updated: Sun, 09/07/25
Tip # 690 - DOES THIS MEAN YOU'RE RETIRING? My father and Elton Streich (Milwaukee Brush Company) were Milwaukee Rotarians. Shortly after Charles…
Published: Mon, 09/01/25
Updated: Mon, 09/01/25
Tip # 689 - DIDJA MISS ME? And just like that, summer is over. Conditioned possibly from those back to school years, September always seems like the…
Published: Sun, 08/17/25
Updated: Sun, 08/17/25
Tips Will Return September 2nd Lucky and I are going to take in a couple of Brewers games, bark at squirrels and bikers, and just generally rela as…
Published: Sun, 08/03/25
Updated: Sun, 08/03/25
Tip # 688 - UNIVERSAL HEALTH 'INSURANCE' “O God, the source of all health; So fill [Our] hearts with faith in your love, that with calm e pectancy…
Published: Sun, 07/27/25
Updated: Sun, 07/27/25
Tip # 687 - TO BE FAIR, SOME RENEWALS ARE A BREEZE! Following back to back Tips recounting ‘tough’ renewals’, it’s time for some good news. Four years…
Published: Sun, 07/20/25
Updated: Sun, 07/20/25
Tip # 686 - ANOTHER TOUGH ONE - ANY IDEAS? Last week’s Tip elegized a “tough” health insurance renewal. Some of you may recall my insurance career…
Published: Sun, 07/13/25
Updated: Sun, 07/13/25
Tip # 685 - SOME RENEWALS ARE TOUGHER THAN OTHERS! Small groups – defined as having from 2 to 50 employees – are renewed based on the claims e…
Published: Sun, 07/06/25
Updated: Sun, 07/06/25
Tip # 684 - WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME? ‘It’ in this case is The Big Beautiful Bill. And, for the purposes of this/these Tips, how specifically does the…