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		<title>Healthy Living: Pregnancy and Health Insurance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Barnes</dc:creator>
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Living and maintaining a healthy lifestyle is always something that should be a top priority. Your body is the only one you are going to get in this lifetime, and you should always be thinking about how to take the best care of it. Ladies, when you&#8217;re having to think about being healthy for two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Insurance Benefits for Same-Sex Partners</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Barnes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s Note: This is the second part of a two-part series on the controversy surrounding health insurance for same-sex marriage partners.  You can find part 1 here.

Let&#8217;s assume that the Defense of Marriage Act (DMA) eventually gets repealed. States that don&#8217;t support gay marriage aren&#8217;t allowed to deny that other states do? Would this then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Quandary: Same-Sex Health Insurance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Barnes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note from the Author: Before I even begin addressing this interesting piece of news, I would like to add a disclaimer. I greatly respect that there are a variety of opinions and beliefs in this world, and I am sure that our reader base is about as diverse as diverse can get. I mean, everyone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Hospital Chooses the Sox Over Saving Money</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Barnes</dc:creator>
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Oh Boston&#8230;a stunning city rich with history, and understandably mad about their Red Sox. After all, they just so recently overcame the Curse of the Bambino to win a World Series, and it&#8217;s no surprise that the city and the baseball cans are rabid for the team&#8217;s good fortune to continue. One hospital that provides [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Health Care System Fails to Support Immigrants</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Barnes</dc:creator>
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The language barrier for recent immigrants to the United States is taking a toll on how they receive access to and understand their health care options, according to a recent report by Kaiser. This further exemplifies the holes in the United States&#8217; health care system, and raises huge concerns over those who are eligible and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will 2009 be a Year for Health Care Reform?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Barnes</dc:creator>
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As many Americans had hoped, President Obama is in office and the wheels appear to be in motion. The health care situation in the United States is just as grim as the rest of our economy, so it&#8217;s encouraging to see that the new administration is wasting no time rolling up their sleeves to let [...]]]></description>
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		<title>COBRA Health Subsidies and the Economic Recovery Act</title>
		<link>http://www.medhealthinsurance.com/blog/cobra-subsidies-recovery-act/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Barnes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s Preface: The new American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) is a revolutionary step in addressing our most vital economic challenges. A significant portion of the money doled out by the ARRA ($59 billion) will go towards immediately addressing the health crisis. This two-part series by Tara Barnes will delve into the benefits of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women and Birth Control: Which Option is Right for You?</title>
		<link>http://www.medhealthinsurance.com/blog/women-health-birth-control/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Barnes</dc:creator>
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Birth control is something that all women who are sexually active and aren&#8217;t ready for children need to be thinking about. It doesn&#8217;t matter if you are already a mom of three and don&#8217;t want any more little ones running around, or if you are a young woman getting serious with your first serious boyfriend: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Little Diet Changes Can Make a Big Difference</title>
		<link>http://www.medhealthinsurance.com/blog/healthy-diet-changes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Barnes</dc:creator>
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These days you can&#8217;t open a newspaper, pick up a magazine or turn on the TV without being inundated with messages about being healthy. It is great that these messages are coming through the main stream media, because America is bigger and unhealthier than ever before. The good old USofA tops the charts in obesity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dangers of Diet Pills</title>
		<link>http://www.medhealthinsurance.com/blog/the-dangers-of-diet-pills/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Barnes</dc:creator>
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So many people (it isn&#8217;t just women) will go to any lengths to be thin. People want a quick fix, something easy, and something that will not require hours of exercise or changing one&#8217;s diet. What many don&#8217;t realize is that it is never that easy. One pill will not magically help you drop weight [...]]]></description>
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