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Why does health insurance cost so much in the U.S.?

Why does health insurance cost so much in the U.S.?
BY IRENE C. CARD and BETSY CHANDLER
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
YOUR HEALTH INSURANCE

A most interesting article came across my desk and I feel compelled to share much of it with you. It was produced by Independence Blue Cross Business Service Center in Philadelphia, Pa. and I will be extrapolating information directly from the article and adding my opinion here and there.

As Americans, we believe we should have access to the best of everything, and health care is no exception. This will, in all likelihood, change if Obama's plan goes through. We have world-renowned hospitals, top-notch medical schools, and our expected life spans exceed those in most of the world.

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UMDNJ has successful ‘Match Day’

UMDNJ has successful ‘Match Day’

Graduating medical students — 421 of them — at UMDNJ's campuses in Newark, New Brunswick, Stafford and Camden Thursday learned the identities of the medical centers where they will continue their trai...

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How to 'break up' with stubborn body fat

How to 'break up' with stubborn body fat
BY MICHAEL W. SMITH, CPT, M.S.
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

Dear Stubborn Fat,

You've really smothered me the past 4 months and I just cannot take it anymore. I'm trying my very best to be nice to you, but the ...

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When should I buy long term care insurance?

When should I buy long term care insurance?
BY IRENE C. CARD and BETSY CHANDLER
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
YOUR HEALTH INSURANCE

This past week I was asked the question, "When should I buy long term care insurance"? What a great question and the answe...

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Elder care: Caregiver burnout hits women hardest

Elder care: Caregiver burnout hits women hardest
BY CAROL ABAYA
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
THE SANDWICH GENERATION

Question: I have three young, very active sons (under 12) and recently got hooked into taking my mother-in-law to outpatient cancer treatment t...

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UMDNJ-R.W. Johnson medical school professor gains prestigious award

UMDNJ-R.W. Johnson medical school professor gains prestigious award

Dr. David E. Swee of Highland Park, a professor of Family Medicine and associate dean for education at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, has received the New Jersey Academy o...

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Dentist guilty of dumping medical waste at Jersey Shore

Dentist guilty of dumping medical waste at Jersey Shore

Recovered drill bit led to capture

Pennsylvania dentist Thomas W. McFarland Jr. pleaded guilty Monday to dumping the needles and other medical-type waste that washed up in Avalon during in August 2008,...

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Glaucoma research brings understanding to silent thief of sight

Glaucoma research brings understanding to silent thief of sight
BY PHILIP GRAITCER
VOA NEWS

ATLANTA — Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible loss of vision worldwide and now doctors believe the devastating disease begins in the brain and not in the eye as has...

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Poll: N.J. supports health care reform

Poll: N.J. supports health care reform

Rutgers-Eagleton finds residents want Congress to start over with new legislation

Support for health care reform remains strong in New Jersey, according to a Rutgers-Eagleton Poll released Thursday tha...

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