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How Paid Long Term Care Insurance Plans Can Help Small-Business Owners Attract and Retain Top Employees
By Stuart ArmstrongSmall business owners have to be creative these days to attract and retain quality people, and thinking outside the box is a must when devising innovative benefits that would appeal to key employees -- especially those in their 40s, 50s, and 60s.
February 04, 2010
Health Care Reform Effort Switches Gears to Targeted BillsAlthough the health care reform debate may be quieter now that Scott Brown has been elected, causing Democrats to lose their majority, it's definitely not over.
February 04, 2010
Pew Poll: Americans Doubt Future of Health ReformAccording to a new survey by the Pew Research Center, most Americans believe that the recent election of Republican Scott Brown to the Senate has doomed the health care legislation.
February 04, 2010
Pennsylvania To Double Basic Coverage CostsPennsylvania is having a hard time making the numbers work at a subsidized health insurance program for the previously uninsured.
February 04, 2010
Pew Poll: Americans Doubt Future of Health ReformAccording to a new survey by the Pew Research Center, most Americans believe that the recent election of Republican Scott Brown to the Senate has doomed the health care legislation.
February 04, 2010
Antitrust Bill To Drop FridayLawmakers plan to introduce a bill Friday that would repeal the protection that the McCarran-Ferguson Act now gives health insurers and medical malpractice insurers against federal antitrust laws.
February 04, 2010
How Insurance Agents Can Find Creative Solutions to the High Cost of Health CoverageThe rising costs of medical insurance impacts all clients, but there are plenty of options that can meet any coverage need.
February 03, 2010
Braly To Become WellPoint ChairmanThe board of WellPoint Inc. (NYSE:WLP) has named Angela Braly, the company's president and chief executive officer, to succeed Larry Glasscock as chairman March 1.