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		<title>What to Look for When Choosing a Group Health Insurance Provider</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 01:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Guest Author A group health insurance plan covers a specified group of people. Group health plans are often offered as employee benefits by employers who might choose to pay a portion (or all, or none) of the premium. Group health insurance is a great benefit for people with preexisting conditions or health issues, who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frugal Health Tips &#8211; Plavix and Prilosec coupons</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 22:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Guest Author Whether you need an over-the-counter heartburn pill or prescription medication to reduce the likelihood of heart attack and stroke, stopping into a pharmacy can be very expensive. Fortunately, there are ways to reduce the costs of many popular medicines through careful shopping for coupons and free samples. This article will look at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Find an Affordable Health Insurance Plan</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Guest Author Deborah Blair It&#8217;s a scary world if you don&#8217;t have health insurance. And in this world, there is no guarantee that you will have health insurance if you can&#8217;t pay for it yourself. If you&#8217;re not one of those lucky enough to have employer-paid health insurance benefits, then it&#8217;s up to you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Benefits of a Flexible Spending Account for Healthcare</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A flexible spending account (FSA) is an employer-offered benefit that allows employees to make a regular pre-tax deduction from their paycheck that is set aside for medical expenses. Employees set their own deduction amount based on how much money they spend send per year on health needs that are not covered by their health insurance. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Which Side Are You Really On, Jane Chin?!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received what is probably the most passionate email from a reader of this blog that I&#8217;ve ever gotten since creating NakedMedicine.com in 2006. The email concludes with this: I can&#8217;t figure out what your agenda is Ms Chin. Are siding with the poor hard working physicians who are fighting a losing battle with their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Healthcare Become a Moral Question? (Are we already there?)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 21:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jane Chin This morning I was skyping with one of my favorite people, Bhupesh of Ethnicomm, when we began talking about the current state of healthcare. Bhupesh lives in Canada, where healthcare is socialized in a way that has become apparently very attractive to various healthcare &#8220;activists&#8221; and interest groups here in the U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retail Clinics: Quick When You&#8217;re Sick</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dan Abshear Recently in the media, issues have been addressed regarding the specialty of primary care or family practice doctors and the shortage of them in the U.S. In summary, reasons for the shortage that exists are due to the specialty not being that profitable for a doctor compared with other specialties. As a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not Poor Enough or Not Sick Enough</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shirley Loewe had one of the most aggressive form of breast cancer (inflammatory breast cancer). Her tumor was already 4 inches wide when she was diagnosed in 2003. Adding insult to cancer, Shirley was repeatedly denied care because she was either &#8220;not poor enough&#8221; to qualify on Medicaid in Texas because she made $15,000 a [...]]]></description>
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