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	<title>Jane Bryant Quinn &#187; Health Insurance</title>
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	<description>Your personal finance advocate—putting consumers first!</description>
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		<title>Must reading: Docs still aren&#8217;t being trained for total patient care</title>
		<link>http://janebryantquinn.com/2011/05/must-reading-docs-still-arent-being-trained-for-total-patient-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 15:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Insurance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For insight into our frequent frustration with medical care, I urge you to read the graduation speech that surgeon and writer Atul Gawande gave to Harvard students last week. He talked about patient-care issues I hadn&#8217;t fully understood, and for which even today&#8217;s generation of doctors are apparently not prepared. It will greatly enlarge your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medicare reform: Will the Boomers throw the next generation under the bus?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2011 10:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ What should you do to guarantee yourself access to future medical care? If you&#8217;re under 55, talk to your parents or your grandparents. They hold the votes that will decide whether your options will be as good as theirs.
The Republicans, in a recent House budget resolution, offered seniors and Boomers a breathtaking deal. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t lose your shirt in a divorce: 10 steps</title>
		<link>http://janebryantquinn.com/2011/04/dont-lose-your-shirt-in-a-divorce-10-steps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Credit Cards]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health Insurance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[divorce]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Modern divorce is not about who was the meanest or who slept where. It&#8217;s about the money. Both spouse&#8217;s income and assets are &#8211; or should be &#8211; on the table. But couples don&#8217;t always know a lot about each other&#8217;s finances, or where to look. They might not even realize how much less they&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to beat &#8220;frugal fatigue&#8221;: 8 Ways to rightsize your life</title>
		<link>http://janebryantquinn.com/2011/03/how-to-beat-frugal-fatigue-8-ways-to-rightsize-your-life/</link>
		<comments>http://janebryantquinn.com/2011/03/how-to-beat-frugal-fatigue-8-ways-to-rightsize-your-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Credit Cards]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Savings & Debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[downsize]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heallth insurance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you have &#8220;frugal fatigue?&#8221; You&#8217;re not alone. Pinching pennies becomes exhausting, year after year. You dream of breaking free and buying everything in sight.
But tiresome as budgets are, consumers haven&#8217;t quit them yet. You threw some money around in December, when credit card use bumped up for the first time since the 2008 financial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Long-term care insurance: 6 ways to buy it right.</title>
		<link>http://janebryantquinn.com/2010/11/long-term-care-insurance-metlife-drops-out-but-you-need-the-coverage-6-ways-to-buy-it-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Insurance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[MetLife]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://janebryantquinn.com/?p=1424</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You have to pay attention, when MetLife &#8212; the Metropolitan Life insurance Company &#8212; quits selling long-term care insurance. Aetna, Aegon and Equitable Life have exited, too. Insurers are struggling for profits and pushing prices up. Last month, John Hancock asked the states to let it raise premiums on existing policies by an average of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The election and health reform: The uninsured could lose big-time</title>
		<link>http://janebryantquinn.com/2010/10/the-election-and-health-reform-the-uninsured-could-lose-big-time/</link>
		<comments>http://janebryantquinn.com/2010/10/the-election-and-health-reform-the-uninsured-could-lose-big-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2010 15:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The stakes for health reform are high. If Republicans win the House in the  midterm elections, they will set the agenda. The Affordable Care Act could  slowly be torn apart &#8211; not by repeal, but by denying the money needed to put its  provisions into effect. Rep. John Boehner (and Speaker-in-waiting) says,  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care: U.S. Medical Bills Ridiculous, Canadians Say. They Got It Right.</title>
		<link>http://janebryantquinn.com/2010/08/health-care-u-s-medical-bills-ridiculous-canadians-say-they-got-it-right/</link>
		<comments>http://janebryantquinn.com/2010/08/health-care-u-s-medical-bills-ridiculous-canadians-say-they-got-it-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Insurance]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://janebryantquinn.com/?p=1288</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You have to leave the country to get a proper perspective on the high cost of health care in the United States. Even if it&#8217;s just over the border.
My husband and I spent a long weekend in Canada last month, lapping up plays at Stratford, Ontario&#8217;s justly famous Shakespeare Festival. At our bed-and-breakfast, we lapped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will you save money by buying the government&#8217;s new long-term care insurance?</title>
		<link>http://janebryantquinn.com/2010/06/will-you-save-money-by-buying-the-governments-new-long-term-care-insurance/</link>
		<comments>http://janebryantquinn.com/2010/06/will-you-save-money-by-buying-the-governments-new-long-term-care-insurance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Insurance]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://janebryantquinn.com/?p=1198</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We’re all supposed to be responsible for ourselves, right? Don’t ask the government for help. 
When it comes to preparing for the costs of long-term care, however, that ideology isn’t working very well. People who can afford long-term care (LTC) insurance often skip it. They plan on letting the welfare program called Medicaid pick up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stupak gunned down by the anti-abortion crowd that he supports</title>
		<link>http://janebryantquinn.com/2010/04/stupak-gunned-down-by-the-anti-abortion-crowd-that-he-supports/</link>
		<comments>http://janebryantquinn.com/2010/04/stupak-gunned-down-by-the-anti-abortion-crowd-that-he-supports/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 23:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The moral of this story is: Never feed red meat to zealots. The moment you stop feeding them, they chew your arm off.
Bart Stupak, the Michigan representative, fought for—and won—tough language to restrict abortion in the health care reform act. Suddenly (yesterday), he announced that he’ll retire. One reason he’s leaving office is that his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abortion: another encroachment on choice</title>
		<link>http://janebryantquinn.com/2010/03/abortion-another-encroachment-on-choice/</link>
		<comments>http://janebryantquinn.com/2010/03/abortion-another-encroachment-on-choice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 04:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does an abortion typically cost? Here are the average prices, according to the National Abortion Federation: During the first trimester&#8211;$350 in a clinic and $500 in a doctor’s office. At 16 weeks&#8211;$650 in a clinic and $700 in a doctor’s office. After the 20th week, the average tops $1,000. Planned Parenthood puts the cost [...]]]></description>
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