Blogs

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  An agenda for referrals

  By Margie Barrie  |  May 23, 2013

  This straightforward system is the best way to feel comfortable asking clients for referrals.

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  Benefits educators prepare for a new world

  By Sue Sieger  |  May 23, 2013

  Scrambling to track ACA changes? What if you had to create the ACA change seminar?

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  LTCI Watch: Pot of gold

  By Allison Bell  |  May 23, 2013

  A planner contends that a solid LTC insurance plan costs more than many realize.

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  Once more unto the soup?

  By David A. Saltzman  |  May 22, 2013

  Markets without consumers soon become extinct.

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  On the Third Hand: Unbanked

  By Allison Bell  |  May 21, 2013

  If only the PPACA enrollers could sign people up for free checking accounts.

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  Obamacare: They're missing the point

  By Bob Vineyard  |  May 20, 2013

  A longtime agent says the MLR issue is a red herring.

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  What my mother taught me about health care

  By Kathryn Mayer  |  May 17, 2013

  I could report and write about health care all day long — which, oh yea, I do — but my cancer survivor mother has taught me more about it than anyone else.

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  Disability Insurance Observer: The lottery

  By Allison Bell  |  May 17, 2013

  Instead of feeling depressed about the idiocy, why not harness its mind-numbing power?

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  LTCI Watch: Stockton

  By Allison Bell  |  May 16, 2013

  Those folks' boat leaks -- but your boat leaks, too.

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  The market was working

  By Bill Boswell  |  May 15, 2013

  PPACA is wrecking successful grassroots efforts to fix the health insurance system, an agent says.