Begin by standing on a comfortable surface, where you have plenty of room at each side.
With a 5-lb. potato sack in each hand, extend your arms straight out from your sides, and hold them there as long as you can. Try to reach a full minute, then relax.
Each day, you’ll find that you [...]
Entries from September 30th, 2009
Exercise for the Heart
September 30th, 2009 Comments Off
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Underwriting Depression and Georgia Health Insurance Policies
September 28th, 2009 Comments Off
If you are applying for a Georgia health insurance plan and have depression, or anxiety, you need to know there is a BIG difference in the way health insurance companies will rate their offer.
Here is the situation.
Male, age 24, good health except . . . he has anxiety. (Anxiety and depression are underwritten in the [...]
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Obamacare Ego Trip
September 28th, 2009 Comments Off
Is health care reform about satisfying politician’s ego’s or making health care affordable as they claim? The Washington Post’s op-ed columnist Robert Samuelson has his own perspective on Obamacare.
“My colleagues, this is our opportunity to make history,” Chairman Max Baucus implored last week as the Senate Finance Committee opened consideration of his bill. Politicians, in [...]
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Want Fewer Wrinkles?
September 25th, 2009 Comments Off
Consumer Reports gives us 7 ways to have fewer wrinkles. Here is their list.
Use a facial moisturizer with an SPF of at least 30 to limit the sun’s damage every day, not just when you’re at the beach.
Shield your face with a hat and sunglasses when you’re outdoors, particularly on sunny days.
Avoid tanning beds. Those [...]
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Cutting Corners on Health Insurance Applications
September 24th, 2009 Comments Off
If you think you are going to get away misrepresenting your medical history on a health insurance application you are dead wrong. This advice goes for the applicant as well as the agent assisting.
I participate in several online forums, offering advice on health insurance matters for a nickel.
Actually, I don’t charge anything but my avatar [...]
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2.4 Million Die Each Year Because They Have Health Insurance
September 23rd, 2009 Comments Off
CNN reported that 45,000 die each year because they don’t have health insurance and there were 2,426,264 total deaths in the U.S. last year according to the CDC.
Since 45,000 didn’t have health insurance it is logical to assume that 2,381,264 had health insurance but died anyway.
So if you have health insurance be prepared to die.
We [...]
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No Tax on Condoms
September 23rd, 2009 Comments Off
Sen. Baucus’ health care bill taxes a lot of things, but not condoms. Or contact lenses, or tampons but hearing aids and wheel chairs are fair game.
Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., left intact a $4 billion-a-year levy on the medical devices industry — keeping the controversy alive. The industry makes some 80,000 different products [...]
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Biden Weighs in on Health Care Reform
September 22nd, 2009 Comments Off
Joe (I’m always good for a quote) Biden was allowed out of his cage to speak before the NAIC (National Association of Insurance Commissioners). Here are some tidbits.
tighter regulation of the industry is needed to protect consumers and slow the spiraling cost of medical coverage.
OK, so how does more regulation lead to lower insurance premiums? [...]
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Swine Flu Police
September 22nd, 2009 Comments Off
Didn’t get your shots? You can be quarantined by the state. No knock warrants anyone?
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Obamacare = Tax Increase or Not?
September 20th, 2009 Comments Off
Is Obamacare a tax increase? It depends on what your definition of a tax increase is, is . . .
Why does this remind me of Clinton saying “it depends on what your definition of is, is . . .
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