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		<title>Facts You Won&#8217;t See on the Nightly News &#8211; Part 2</title>
		<link>http://groupbenefitsltd.wordpress.com/2010/10/27/what-the-register-doesnt-want-you-to-know-pt-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Letter to the Editor, Submitted 10/5/10 – Des Moines Register declined to publish In a recent editorial, the Des Moines Register criticized Iowa poll respondents who dislike the new health care reform bill for not understanding specific details in the law. Given that the legislation is over 2,000 pages long, one might forgive the public [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=groupbenefitsltd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7846811&amp;post=91&amp;subd=groupbenefitsltd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facts You Won&#8217;t See on the Nightly News &#8211; Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Letter to the Editor, Submitted 5/28/10 – Des Moines Register declined to publish Two recent events leave me wondering if there is any accountability left in government. However, those same events leave me with no doubt about how a monstrosity of a health care bill that does more harm than good has become law. Event [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=groupbenefitsltd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7846811&amp;post=88&amp;subd=groupbenefitsltd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Round-Up &#8211; April 30, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take Action: NAHU&#8217;s Operation Shout Just one month after the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was passed, there are more efforts in Congress that would place tighter restrictions and higher costs on the private health insurance industry. NAHU is organizing a campaign to oppose the Health Insurance Rate Authority Act that would allow the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=groupbenefitsltd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7846811&amp;post=81&amp;subd=groupbenefitsltd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Round-Up &#8211; April 16, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, it&#8217;s true &#8211; we missed posting the Weekly Round-Up last week. That doesn&#8217;t mean important things didn&#8217;t happen &#8211; we just fell a little behind. Catch up on this week&#8217;s reform news with us now. In honor of Tax Day yesterday, this week&#8217;s first articles focus on the new taxes the PPACA contains: Tax [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=groupbenefitsltd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7846811&amp;post=73&amp;subd=groupbenefitsltd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Wrong Kind of Disappointment&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me see if I get this straight. Governor Culver is “disappointed” that Wellmark’s rate increases were justified.   Hmmm.   I’d like to ask the Governor just what disappointed him the most? That Wellmark wasn’t trying to cheat customers and actually knows how to price health insurance?     Or was it the fact that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=groupbenefitsltd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7846811&amp;post=69&amp;subd=groupbenefitsltd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s All of This Going to Cost Again?</title>
		<link>http://groupbenefitsltd.wordpress.com/2010/04/05/whats-all-of-this-going-to-cost-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 20:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever heard the saying that if it’s too good to be true, then it’s probably not true?  That’s exactly how I felt when I first read about the cost projections for the health care reform legislation.  Let’s see…it expands coverage to an additional 32 million people, provides subsidies for entire new classes of individuals…and yet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=groupbenefitsltd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7846811&amp;post=65&amp;subd=groupbenefitsltd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Round-Up &#8211; April 2, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Updated: At 11:30 today, Director of the Dept. of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius will make an announcement about the temporary high-risk pool meant to provide emergency funds to cover those who are uninsured and have pre-existing conditions. Details of how individual components of the PPACA will be carried out are few and far [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=groupbenefitsltd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7846811&amp;post=62&amp;subd=groupbenefitsltd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Round-Up &#8211; March 26, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re wrapping up a week of historic news on health insurance reform. Here is some of the week&#8217;s best information for independent agents. Top 10 Facts About Reform &#8211; An unbiased overview of the bill that has passed. Courtesy PolitiFact.com Small Business&#8217; Opinion of Reform &#8211; The National Federation of Independent Business is outspoken against [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=groupbenefitsltd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7846811&amp;post=49&amp;subd=groupbenefitsltd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Changes Until 2014, Right? Wrong.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The majority of the provisions in the recently-passed Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act don’t take effect until January 1, 2014. But handful of them will be enforced by the end of this year. Here are the changes you need to be familiar with: Individual Insurance Children up to the age of 26 will be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=groupbenefitsltd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7846811&amp;post=45&amp;subd=groupbenefitsltd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wellness..that&#8217;s just crazy enough that it might work</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[50% of our country’s health care costs can be attributed to preventable behaviors – namely, tobacco use, inactivity, and poor eating habits. It&#8217;s tough to admit, but true: as a general population, we are remarkably unhealthy. So, while our country debates national health care reform and tries to develop ways to reduce costs, it is irresponsible to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=groupbenefitsltd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7846811&amp;post=41&amp;subd=groupbenefitsltd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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