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• Statins: The Answer or False Hope?
  - By Melissa Healy
  Los Angeles Times | August 11, 2010

  As the world's most-prescribed class of medications, statins indisputably qualify for the commercial distinction of "blockbuster." About 24 million Americans take the drugs — marketed under such commercial names as Pravachol, Mevacor, Lipitor, Zocor and Crestor — largely to stave off heart attacks and strokes. (read more...)

   

• Key Changes in the New Healthcare Law
  - MacDonald, Page & Co, LLC | March 31, 2010

  The new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, and its accompanying reconciliation law, provide broad-based changes for employers as well as many individuals. In addition to virtually mandating health insurance coverage for all U.S. citizens, this massive health care reform legislation includes several other far-reaching tax provisions. (read more...)

• Countdown with Keith Olbermann
  - NAIFA - Tom Currey | October 08, 2009

  The October 7, 2009, airing of the “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” show included a wildly erroneous segment focused on corporate-owned life insurance, commonly referred to as COLI, as well as a direct attack on the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (NAIFA) and its political action committee, IFAPAC. (read more...)

• Health Care Overhaul Racing Against the Clock
  - Associated Press Online - Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar | July 08, 2009

  President Barack Obama is struggling to show progress in a race against the clock to revamp the nation's health care system this year. (read more...)

• A Focus on Women’s Health
  - Concentra | May, 2009

  What you should do about your health.
  Checklist of Questions to ask your Doctor or Nurse
  General Health and Wellness Questions...  (read more...)

• What's Really Driving the Increase in Health Insurance Premiums?
  - Anthem | June 5, 2009

  Anthem plans across the country are working to develop innovative products and programs that help address rising health care costs. Through pay for performance initiatives, consumer directed health plans and transparency initiatives; Anthem is providing access to the information needed to drive down health care costs. (read more...)

• Many Think They Have Drug Allergies
  - USA Today | March 09, 2009

  Are you allergic to any medicines?

  It's one of those basic questions we get (or should get) every time we see a new doctor, check in for a medical procedure or enter an emergency room.  And, doctors say, it's a question people routinely answer incorrectly -- usually by claiming an allergy to a drug that actually is safe for them. (read more...)

• 15 Myths Regarding Medicaid Nursing Home Benefits in Maine
  - Skelton Law Offices | March, 2009

  No one chooses to live in a nursing home.  But some older Mainers eventually need care in a nursing home setting.  For many, this means not only the loss of personal autonomy but also the depletion of all assets.  That is because nursing home care can cost more than $80,000 per year or more. (read more...)

• Some U.S. Companies Reforming Healthcare In-House
  - Boston Globe | April 15, 2009

  Companies impatient to rein in healthcare costs can go ahead on their own without waiting for federal legislation, Safeway Inc. president Steven Burd said on Tuesday.

  He said that making employees at the third-largest North American supermarket chain accountable for their weight, smoking, cholesterol and blood pressure, has saved millions. Burd proposed the highly praised program used by his company as a model not only to other companies, but to the federal government. (read more...)