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		<title>Health Reform: A Response to Inflated Health Care Costs in U.S.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian Flores</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A poignant article in the respected journal, Health Affairs, put it best when it said that &#8220;a cycle of unsustainable spending growth followed by fervent cost containment initiatives has been a regular feature of the health care landscape for the past half-century.&#8221; As a result, the journal looked at health care spending per capita for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>States&#8217; Health Insurance Coverage in Detail</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Barnes</dc:creator>
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Have you ever pondered what health insurance and healthcare was like throughout your state? Or maybe you and your family are planning a move to another part of the country and want to know what you can expect in terms of health coverage in a state. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is making sleuthing like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discounts for Health Insurance while Pregnant</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Barnes</dc:creator>
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If you don&#8217;t think you&#8217;re low-income and aren&#8217;t sure if you&#8217;d qualify for the services we talked about in our pregnancy health insurance article (it&#8217;s always a good idea to check just in case), there may be other options you can look into as a pregnant, mother-to-be. They do come at a cost, but at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>COBRA in the American Reinvestment Recovery Act</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Barnes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor’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 is the second part in a two-part series on subsidies for COBRA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>COBRA Health Subsidies and the Economic Recovery Act</title>
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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>User&#8217;s Guide to Urgent Care Clinics</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Barnes</dc:creator>
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Sometimes you just need to get seen by a doctor, stat. Maybe you aren&#8217;t having an emergency like having a baby or cradling your severed limb in your hands, but things like a sprained ankle or a rapidly rising temperature require some fairly prompt attention. According to Health Net&#8217;s website, urgent care services are &#8220;medically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Art of Chinese Public Health Posters</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian Flores</dc:creator>
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Maoist China during the period between 1958 and 1976 was one of the world’s widest users of public health posters and announcements. It was almost impossible to go anywhere in the country without seeing some form of health poster telling citizens to do a certain thing or not do a certain thing in the interest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bringing Healthcare Home: The Medical Home Model</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:18:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Barnes</dc:creator>
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You hear whispers of it on the wind, legends of time where one person saw one doctor, who knew all of their past ailments, and truly cared about their health and well being. This standard has seemed to have fallen by the wayside in the recent years, among all the chaos and hubbub of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Long Term Care Insurance 101</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Barnes</dc:creator>
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Read the Fine Print
As I&#8217;ve mentioned in another blog, it would be a pretty amazing feat to make it into your golden years without having at least one &#8220;pre-existing medical condition.&#8221; The human body just can&#8217;t stay in peak condition until the end of one&#8217;s life, so having some medical baggage is perfectly normal for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drug Companies Cut Back on Ad Spending</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Barnes</dc:creator>
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In the past few years, you couldn&#8217;t turn on the television without seeing an advertisement for some new kind of drug. Erectile dysfunction, blood pressure, allergies, and restless leg syndrome (yes that is real) are all some of the drugs you may have seen splashed boldly in front of you on the screen. If you [...]]]></description>
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