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Discount Health Plan Scams
Avoid discount health plan scams like, well, the plague! Or a really bad flu. Learn more about self employed health insurance scams and what to avoid online now.
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How to Purchase Individual Health Insurance
Going without health insurance can be financially risky, particularly if the person is unemployed for a longer period. Here's how to purchase individual health insurance.
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Governor John Baldacci
Governor John Baldacci of Maine was born in Bangor, Maine on January 30, 1955. Baldacci was first elected to public office in 1978, when he became a member of the Bangor City Council. In 1982 he was elected to the Maine Senate and in 1994, Baldacci went to Washington to represent Maine’s second district in the House of Representatives. He is now Maine's governor.
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How to Apply for COBRA Health Insurance
For those caught up in layoffs, it can be financially devastating to lose health insurance. Here's how to keep it going with COBRA extended health coverage.
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Microsoft: Top 100 US Employer
Microsoft, a name that is part of everyday life, was voted a Fortune Top 100 Employer again for 2006. What makes Bill Gates such a great employer? Let's see...
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Pros and Cons of High Deductible Health Plans
High Deductible Health Plans (HDHP) require the insured to take on a larger burden of health care costs in exchange for lower monthly premiums.
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THE LATEST on LE
Info on dealing with your insurance company about lymphedema issues, LE in the national news and becoming an advocate for the cause.
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Silver Sneakers Fitness Program for Seniors
One of the critical issues for senior citizens is the need to be physically active on a regular basis without breaking their budget. Silver Sneakers is a great way!
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Medicaid Health Plans: Are ASPs Right for You?
The use of Application Service Providers (ASPs) is a new twist to service bureau and outsourcing offerings. It is important that Medicaid health plans understand the ASP approach to acquiring software and support so they can use it appropriately and to the benefit of their organization.
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Paying for Prenatal Healthcare
Learn more about finding prenatal health insurance. Find out about buying infant health insurance and paying for prenatal healthcare including using a midwife online now.
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Acupuncture and Insurance Coverage
With the rise in patients seeking acupuncture as a viable pathway to optimal health, many group health insurance plans now offer coverage for alternative therapies.
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Group Health Insurance for Freelance Writers
Many freelance writers continue to work at a 9 - 5 job because of the security of having a health insurance plan. They fear that leaving a job will render them uninsured.
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Health Care - Insurance Costly For Underinsured
Many Americans have to make the daunting choice of paying for daily living expenses, visiting the doctor or having their prescriptions filled.
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Managed Care - What's New?
Managed Care
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Patients' Bill Of Rights: Senate Bill Flawed
The Senate's "Patients' Bill of Rights" is woefully inadequate and misses major components to provide a truly safe environment for both patients and health care professionals. Here's an edited version of a White House press release and some of my personal comments on the subject. This is a critically important issue and a call for action.
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Small Business Health Care
Even in a bad economy with high unemployment figures, health care benefits are a priority of job seekers.
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Stay Healthy, Live Longer, Spend Wisely: Review
Davis Liu, M.D. wrote Stay Healthy, Live Longer, Spend Wisely, Stetho Publishing, 2008 to help give Americans information so they can choose the best health care.
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Winning the Loyalty of the eHealth Consumer
eHealth consumers are here. They are demanding services and taking action, and no one — neither incumbent health care organizations nor the new eHealth insurgents — is yet capturing their attention and satisfying their needs.
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Administrative Services Only Plans Save Money
ASO clients pay only for claims plus a fixed fee with no insurance expense padding such as reserve adjustments, inflation and trend factors, or risk and profit charges.
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Breast Cancer Awareness
Women can take an active role in reducing risk for breast cancer with light consistent exercise. Walking can reduce your risk by up to 30 percent.
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Buying Health Insurance via the Private Market
For those not covered by COBRA, Medicaid or an employer's plan, buying health insurance on the private market is an option.
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Employee Medical Insurance Plans
Find the best corporate health insurance plan for employees by following these easy steps. Survey employees and do research before buying group health insurance.
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Oregon's Famous Notable Alumni
Discover the well-known Ducks of the University of Oregon who have helped make the school standout, through their work in sports, literature and business.
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Pre-Existing Conditions and HIPAA
It's no secret that insurance companies do not want to insure preexisting conditions. However, Federal legislation has forced health insurers to rethink their position.
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Skin Testing for Allergies
This article explores some of the pros and cons of skin testing for allergies, discussing procedure in brief, results and variables.
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Teen Girls' Rising Drug Use
The sharpest rise in prescription drug claims was for girls taking drugs for type 2 diabetes.
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U.S. Universal Health Insurance
As millions of Americans go without health insurance, raising the costs of health care, several states have proposed reform, aiming to solve the uninsured problem.
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Health Savings Accounts
Health Savings Accounts offer a number of benefits for healthy people but may not be right for families or those with current health conditions.
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<b>Mental Health Advocacy</b>
This article is about mental health advocacy. It briefly explains the mental health stigma, and why so many people have problems finding the help they need. There is a list of advocacy and education organizations that fight for patient's rights, as well as some hotlines. Links to follow.
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Chiropractic as the Low Back Pain Gatekeeper
A recent study funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health has recommended that chiropractors become the "Gatekeepers" of the Canadian low back pain treatment system.
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Health e-People: Content, Community, Commerce, and Care
The third article in this series presenting the online behaviors of health consumers.
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Lymphedema Bills
Why we need lymphedema legislation and what you can do to make it happen.
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New medical privacy rules foreshadow privacy policy changes
Reporting on new rules governing privacy of personal medical records, with reactions from industry leaders
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Your Right to Quality Care
The National Breast Cancer Coalition Fund has just published their Guide to Quality Breast Cancer Care. I have written a summation of this important, informative work. Whether you are a breast cancer patient, relative or friend, you owe it to yourself to know what you can expect, demand and what your rights are in the breast cancer arena.
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Anorexia and the Workplace: An Update
An email from employer "Charlie," a success story of sorts.
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Buying Medical Insurance
Buying health insurance is expensive, and having a policy is important. To help save money, follow these simple suggestions.
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Developing an Allergy Plan
Options exist in treating allergies in everything from emergency plans to medication to practitioners and treatment. This article covers some of them in a basic sense.
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Home Business Owner Health Care
For home business owners, finding health insurance help can be a major problem. Try a few of these solutions for health care.
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Intuition, Chi and Health
Energy Psychiatry pioneer Dr. Judith Orloff offers solutions to chronic physical, spiritual and emotional exhaustion through an exploration of subtle energy (chi).
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McCain or Obama: Boost for the Stock Market?
The stock market continues to plummet and investors look to McCain or Obama to keep spending under control and no new taxes.
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Medicare Drug Plan 2007
Medicare 2007 Part D Drug plan options and premiums have changed slightly. Beneficiaries can change their plans when Open Enrollment begins Nov. 15, 2006.
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Overweight and Obesity Solution
We must accelerate the crusade to eradicate overweight and obesity. The tentacles of these conditions branch out into many debilitating diseases.
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Pre-existing Conditions
Do Ohio residents have insurance options when they've been denied health insurance coverage due to a pre-existing condition? Yes they do.
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State Health Insurance Pools
High health risk individuals not only feel the pinch of ever increasing insurance premiums, they have the added difficulty of finding a company to insure them.
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Using Generic Drugs
Generic medications work just as well as brand-name prescriptions, but cost patients much less. To help make the switch and save money, read on.
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A Guide to Laser Eye Surgery
Sight correction by laser eye surgery has become safer and more popular in recent years. Strict aftercare is required, but the results are liberating.
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Checklist - Your Timetable to Retirement
Saving money in retirement means meeting some deadlines both before and after you leave work -- here's a look at some of the major "money dates" you should note as you make retirement plans.
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Cigarettes are a Chemical Cocktail
The cigarette industry knowingly manufactures a product that has chemicals. These chemicals, if on their own, fall under federal handling, storing and transportation laws
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Disabling Theology
Disability theologies look at the broken body of the resurrected Christ as a metaphor. The learning-disabled find little comfort in that theopoetic.
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Early Retirement with a Buyout
Your employer offers you an early retirement package. What should you do? That's the question a lot of older workers are facing.
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