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Timberlands up for grabs
High County News - For sale: The West As privately owned timberlands go up for sale around the West, some communities are trying to find ways to keep their forests from disappearing in a flood of development. Quick Stats Statistics on timberlands. The West s private

IBM Launches Development Centers in India and China to Meet Growing
MSN MoneyCentral - center in Pune will initially develop repeatable business services for the insurance industry, including home and auto rate quoting as well as health care business was founded in 1970 as an information technology (IT) outsourcer that small banks

Health Net of California Receives CHARO Vision Award for Corporate
Hola Arkansas - Woodland Hills, CA–(HISPANIC PR WIRE - BUSINESS WIRE)–October 31, 2006–Health Net of California has received the “Vision partnered with CHARO by participating in various community outreach events including health insurance seminars for small

Market Mover
American Reporter - THE $10,000 HEALTH INSURANCE DEDUCTIBLE? by Mark Scheinbaum American Reporter Correspondent Lake Worth, Fla. Printable version of Most HMO, PPO and hybrid providers have a book filled with various individual, small business, spouse, and family plans at

Inside this section:
Polk County Democrat - Family members, friends or support persons may attend with the patient. The group For more information or directions, call the Winter Haven Hospital Health balance the checkbook, bank statements, making payments and dealing with insurance

the has-been
Slate - cheap bare-bones policy for employees and their family members. But Wal-Mart, which prides itself on low prices every day, hasn’t really tried to do much to reduce the cost of health-care coverage for its customers, many of whom lack insurance. Yes

Contract standoff
Las Vegas Sun - Health care giants at impasse over insurance payments; patients, doctors could feel the sting after Dec. 31 By Marshall Allen Las Vegas Sun by Sierra risk losing access to “life-saving services and advanced medicine found only at our family of

Love trumps health insurance red tape
KARE - And then the health care bureaucracy forced their family apart. “In order for me to be covered by my medical care, I needed not to be seemed, Mary’s state medical assistance would be canceled if she married Chris, while Chris’s health insurance

Microsoft launches legal broadside against global software pirating
OregonLive.com - According to the group’s analysis of census and other data, total annual health insurance premiums for family coverage in Oregon rose from $6,654 to $12,125 from 2000 to 2006. The share of premiums paid by workers rose from $1,657 to $2,898. Median

Program to help small businesses fund employee health coverage
Business First - As of Nov. 1, small-business owners can enroll in a new program to help provide health insurance to employees. The program, called Insurance Coverage Affordability and Relief to Small Employers (ICARE), will provide funding to employers to help pay

Consumer confidence edges down in October
Wichita Eagle - Despite the concerns about jobs growth, wages and benefits paid to American workers rose in the July-September period at the fastest pace in more than two years, led by a big jump in the cost of employee benefits such as health insurance and pensions

Wolf Professional Risk, Inc. Adopts (i-bind)(SM) Technology
MSN MoneyCentral - The company is focused on the professional liability insurance market and underwrites directors and officers (”D&O”) liability for public and private companies, errors and omissions (”E&O”) liability insurance, and health care liability insurance

Lewistown woman honored for mobile health care work
Frederick News-Post - The Wellmobile’s clientele often work two or three jobs, and have catastrophic health insurance, which only covers major medical emergencies, she said. Their policies have high deductibles, sometimes as much as $2,500. The Wellmobile offers free

Winn-Dixie opening walk-in health clinics in Florida stores
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel - And the rising cost of health care has forced many companies to cut employee health benefits and has left millions of U.S. residents without health insurance. The health care crisis is prompting a growing number of retailers to add walk-in medical

Gays No Longer Miss Best Jobs at Citigroup, Goldman, Merrill 
Bloomberg.com - 22 minutes ago
Oct. 31 (Bloomberg) — Larry Chanen recalls the day, more than 20 years ago, when he realized he’d have to mask his homosexuality in order to advance on Wall Street.Save to My Web

The endless spiral of health-care costs - Editorial 
NorthJersey.com - Oct 27 4:43 AM
In this week that saw perhaps one of the final chapters written in the Enron scandal — the sentencing of former CEO Jeffrey Skilling — where the energy company’s executives knowingly took advantage of their employees, it’s easy to give newer business owners like Isa and Alia Suqi of Paterson credit for at least trying to do the right thing.Save to My Web

Baptist Health makes philosophical statement 
Miami Herald - Oct 31 12:09 AM
Prodded by a socially conscious breast surgeon, Baptist Health South Florida has decided to give preferential status to suppliers who provide health insurance to their employees.Save to My Web

Study Identifies High Costs of Doing Business in Mass. 
Insurance Journal - Oct 30 6:21 AM
A new study by a Boston-based think tank shows that Massachusetts firms in nine selected industries including financial services have costs that are on average 20 percent to 30 percent higher than simSave to My Web

Business People 
The Herald-Mail - Oct 29 6:24 AM
WAYNESBORO, Pa. - Blanca Machala, Waynesboro YMCA custodian since April 2005, has been honored by the association as one of “The Friendliest People In Town.”Save to My Web

Business Digest
Providence Journal, RI - 4 hours ago The Rhode Island Small Business Development Center (RISBDC growth at Ahold s retail business. include: ChemArt Co.; Health Insurance Commissioner Christopher F

A bigger role for small business
Boston Globe, United States - Oct 29, 2006 It helps small business. Ross also said small businesses would be prime beneficiaries of her sweeping plan for replacing private health insurance with a

Candidate selector: Governor
49abcnews.com, KS - 7 hours ago million in tax credits, increased rural business tax credits I have provided tax credits to small businesses, phased changes need to be made in health care in

BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois Proposes Small Business Health
Kaiser network.org, DC - Oct 20, 2006 and private sector work together to provide health insurance for Illinois on the proposal from small businesses and small-business organizations, according to

Spas combine comfort, medical treatment
Bellingham Herald, WA - Oct 29, 2006 director at Western Washington University's Small Business Development Center Typically the business model for a medical "Health care continues to work with two

Candidates debate health care concerns 
Saint George Spectrum - Oct 30 2:46 AM
CEDAR CITY - Democratic incumbent Jim Matheson and Republican challenger LaVar Christensen agree that addressing America’s health care issues will be one of their toughest challenges if elected to serve in Utah’s 2nd Congressional District on Nov. 7.Save to My Web

Top Health News 
FOX 31 Denver - Oct 29 10:17 PM
Finding online solutions to health insurance.Save to My Web

Conduct your own insurance eligibility audit 
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer - Oct 30 12:06 AM
Have you been sneaking health coverage for your sister, a cousin, a boyfriend or girlfriend, ex-spouse or perhaps an adult child?Save to My Web

MassMutual Offers Free Life Insurance to Working Parents in Florida 
[Press Release] PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - Oct 30 5:00 AM
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company is bringing the company’s LifeBridge Free Life Insurance Program to the Sarasota, Florida area.Save to My Web

The 411 on Health Insurance 
Wellsville Daily Reporter - Oct 29 4:54 PM
(ARA) - You’ve heard it before; accidents happen. There’s a great deal of truth in this oft-quoted statement. It’s one reason why you should always have good health insurance, because without it, you may be putting yourself in serious financial straights.Save to My Web

Campbell agency celebrates 25 years
Ashland Daily Press - You are protecting people’s assets, with auto and home, it’s easy to see what assets you are taking care of, but with life insurance, you are protecting the asset of providing for a family, and health insurance is the same way,” he said. “You hope

Capitol Hill Watch | Health Care IT Bill Could Increase Costs by $416M
Kaisernetwork.org - America’s Health Insurance Plans released a new study that found a provision in a health care information technology bill ( HR 4157 ) passed earlier this year by the House could increase U.S. health care costs by as much as $416 million, CQ

LOCAL NEWS HEADLINES
Newport Daily News - Scott said he opposes universal health care but supports more choice in health insurance plans in order to make it more affordable. He said Kennedy enjoys the benefits of a federal health care plan that most Americans cannot afford. Capalbo also

Collins calls for health care advocacy
Norman Transcript - Collins said he served on the Commercial Industry and Labor, Public Safety, Insurance, Mental Health, Science and Technology and Small Business committees. If elected, he said he will advocate for lower health care costs while working for better

How about health care for everyone?
Toledo Blade - 847 of the average yearly Ohio family health insurance premium goes toward paying the cost of caring for the uninsured. The U.S. is spending way more than any other country on health care, yet we rank 37th in the world on health-care performance. $1

Miller’s Bull Pennings
CBS Sportsline - Musial’s health hasn’t been the best over the past year. I hope this isn’t a sign that something bad is up with Stan the Man. Rock and Roll Lyric of the Day: “I’ve got a beggin’ woman “She keep on beggin’ me “She’ll even try to beg “A

By Gregg Easterbrook
ESPN.com - Wilson started in insurance.) National television revenue already is split 32 ways the other hand playing-time bonuses for low-paid players, plus pension and health Include your real name and the name of your hometown, and I may quote you by name

Annie Jennings
PRWeb - It is now possible to buy life insurance online not just get a quote without the hassle of extensive paperwork, physical exams, and Students stay on an organic farm operated by agronomists of the Mediterranean Association for Soil Health

VOTER’S GUIDE TO THE NOV. 7 ELECTION Lieutenant governor
San Francisco Gate - 103, which rolled back insurance rates and imposed restrictions on insurers. Quote: “I will use the office of lieutenant governor like it has never been done before to drive public policy in the areas of education, consumer protection, health

Political newcomers vie for House 136 seat
Macon Telegraph, GA - Oct 29, 2006 The dropout rate is dismal, he said, and alternative courses, such as between government and personal responsibility when it comes to health insurance, he said

Social security contributions in Bulgaria
Sofia Echo, Bulgaria - 10 hours ago state trying to increase the rate of collection eight out of nine insurance risks: temporarily The National Health Insurance Fund administered the insurance, in

More choices, more information on insurance plans leading to
Rockford Register Star, IL - Oct 29, 2006 That s twice the rate of wage growth or To cope with expenses, insurance providers have trotted out Health maintenance organizations are on the decline, and

Jefferson, Manning call centers cut costs, tout low turnover
DesMoinesRegister.com, IA - Oct 29, 2006 company also boasts a lower turnover rate than Indian percent of an employee's medical and dental insurance. good we are providing those health care benefits.

Wilson faces Blasdel for US 6th District
Ironton Tribune, OH - Oct 28, 2006 problematic for small business to pay and something needs to be done about that. We have 46 million people in this country without health insurance, he

De-Coding Candidate Rhetoric: Tip Sheet for Straight Answers
FOX News - Oct 22, 2006 and fairness, and government playing some type of role in helping to reduce or contain health insurance costs. What should small business owners ask

Candidates discuss importance of health care
Pittsburg Morning Sun, KS - Oct 26, 2006 an environment that is friendly to new business. Health insurance costs have increased as government bureaucracy has which of these are harming small businesses

Insurance versus luck
Martha’s Vineyard Times, MA - Oct 25, 2006 industry since 1984, said the costs force some small business owners to make some difficult choices. "A lot of guys think, I have health insurance, I'll take

Owners of small firms hope elections will ease concerns
Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - 6 hours ago Many small-business owners count health-care costs among their biggest problems; they want to offer insurance to attract the best workers, but it is becoming