Monthly Archives: January 2009

No Price Tags

January 28, 2009
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By Jan Greene Hospitals are like the fanciest, most exclusive restaurants — the ones where the menus carry no prices. If you have to ask what it costs, the punchline goes, you can’t afford it. The same goes for health care in America these days, sadly enough. If you’re on the hook to pay...

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The wonderful world of individual insurance

January 24, 2009
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By Jan Greene Gee, I love having individual insurance. Just got a 17 percent rate increase in the mail for my high-deductible policy. Which means I’m likely paying $8500 this year to insure my young daughter and I, given that it’s likely I’ll end up spending the $2500 deductible, as I have the past...

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