{"id":6442,"date":"2013-10-02T09:02:57","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T15:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=6442"},"modified":"2013-10-02T09:02:57","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T15:02:57","slug":"it-took-15-minutes-to-save-1000month-on-nm-health-insurance-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/it-took-15-minutes-to-save-1000month-on-nm-health-insurance-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"It took 15 minutes to save $1000\/month on NM Health Insurance Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/albuquerque\/blog\/morning-edition\/2013\/10\/cadigan-health-exchange-save-1000-month.html?page=all\">Michael Cadigan of Cadigan Law Firm PC says health exchange will save him $1,000 a month &#8211; Albuquerque Business First<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/albuquerque\/blog\/morning-edition\/2013\/10\/albuquerque\/bio\/11811\/Dennis+Domrzalski\">Dennis Domrzalski<\/a> Reporter- <em>Albuquerque Business First<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<dl>\n<dt>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmhix.com\/\">New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange<\/a> saved one Albuquerque small business owner $1,000 a month in insurance premiums Tuesday. <\/dt>\n<dt>&nbsp;<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/albuquerque\/blog\/morning-edition\/2013\/10\/albuquerque\/search\/results?q=Michael Cadigan\">Michael Cadigan<\/a>, president and owner of the Cadigan Law Firm P.C., said he signed up the firm\u2019s four employees Tuesday for an insurance policy and got a quote that was $1,000 less a month than he\u2019s currently paying. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was very pleasantly surprised. I thought it was going to be an administrative nightmare and it literally took me 15 minutes once I found everybody\u2019s birthdates, Social Security numbers and ZIP codes,\u201d Cadigan, a former Albuquerque city councilor, said. \u201cThey gave me a quote that would save me $1,000 over what I was paying at Pres [Presbyterian Health Plan], so I\u2019m psyched.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Cadigan said he chose a gold level plan, which pays 80 percent of medal expenses, for the firm. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI selected gold and it gave me 17 choices and I signed up for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/profiles\/company\/us\/nm\/albuquerque\/blue_cross_and_blue_shield_of_new_mexico\/2354523\">Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico<\/a>,\u201d Cadigan said. \u201cI thought this was going to be an all-day thing, so I had a Diet Coke handy, was well rested and I had a good lunch, and it was almost disappointing\u201d that it was so easy. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was blown away,\u201d he said. \u201cI hope it\u2019s not too good to be true.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/albuquerque\/blog\/morning-edition\/2013\/10\/cadigan-health-exchange-save-1000-month.html?page=all\">Michael Cadigan of Cadigan Law Firm PC says health exchange will save him $1,000 a month &#8211; Albuquerque Business First<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmhix.com\/\">New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Cadigan of Cadigan Law Firm PC says health exchange will save him $1,000 a month &#8211; Albuquerque Business First by Dennis Domrzalski Reporter- Albuquerque Business First The New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange saved one Albuquerque small business owner $1,000 a month in insurance premiums Tuesday. &nbsp; Michael Cadigan, president and owner of the Cadigan &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/it-took-15-minutes-to-save-1000month-on-nm-health-insurance-exchange\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It took 15 minutes to save $1000\/month on NM Health Insurance Exchange<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6443,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6442\/revisions\/6443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}