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	<title>Bankrate.com &#187; Insurance</title>
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		<title>Second front attacks &#8216;Obamacare&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/second-front-attacks-obamacare/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/second-front-attacks-obamacare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As President Barack Obama's historic health care reform inches toward its final exam before the Supreme Court next month, a second front led by leaders of the Catholic Church has been growing against the Affordable Care Act.
Unlike the legal challenge by 26 states to the act's "individual mandate" that requires all Americans to purchase health insurance]]></description>
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		<title>Poor pay more for auto insurance</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/the-poor-pay-more-for-auto/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/the-poor-pay-more-for-auto/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auto insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The poor pay more for auto insurance and that ain't fair. That's the executive summary of a new study by the Consumer Federation of America funded by the Ford Foundation that calls for an end to de facto price discrimination based on questionable rating factors.
CFA executive director Stephen Brobeck and director of insurance J. Robert]]></description>
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		<title>Readers bite &#8216;Good Hands&#8217; people</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/readers-bite-good-hands-people/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/readers-bite-good-hands-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auto insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeowners insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My recent blog concerning Allstate's decision to drop 45,000 North Carolina customers who refused to "bundle" their homeowners and auto insurance policies with the company unleashed a firestorm of reader anger directed at the "Good Hands" people.
Here's a sampling:
Evan: To HECK with ALLSTATE....3 yrs ago I owned a home in suffolk county,NY… In 2008 ALLSTATE contacted]]></description>
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		<title>Ending the doctor gravy train</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/ending-the-doctor-gravy-train/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/ending-the-doctor-gravy-train/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Affordable Care Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healthcare reform]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Before you swallow that new drug prescribed by your doctor, wouldn't you like to know whether the drug's manufacturer recently treated your physician to an all-expenses-paid golf junket to Pebble Beach or Hilton Head to extol its miracle properties?
The pills-for-perks dance is commonplace in modern medicine, where based on appearances alone, one might easily conclude]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>Insuring against Facebook rage</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/insuring-against-facebook-rage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/insuring-against-facebook-rage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Way back in the pre-now days, it could take years for consumer complaints to catch up with a company. But today, thanks to the now-ness of social media, corporations can lose millions overnight if they're called out on Facebook or Twitter for an egregious policy or practice. Just ask Bank of America.
What's a poor corporation]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Obamacare&#8217; benefits everyone</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/obamacare-benefits-everyone/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/obamacare-benefits-everyone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This March, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, which for the first time will require all Americans to obtain health insurance two years from now under a provision called the individual mandate.
If the nine justices rule that the individual mandate is unconstitutional, those 26 states challenging health care]]></description>
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		<title>Would private flood be cheaper?</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/would-private-flood-be-cheaper/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/would-private-flood-be-cheaper/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flood insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NFIP]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Smack in the middle of most debates over the fate of that three-legged dog known as the National Flood Insurance Program has been the assumption that private flood insurance from the Allstates and State Farms of the world would prove far more expensive than government-issue.
Well, Houston, turns out we may have a problem with that]]></description>
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		<title>Stop paying text driving claims</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/stop-paying-text-driving-claims/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/stop-paying-text-driving-claims/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auto insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Despite a recent, strongly worded recommendation by the National Transportation Safety Board that calls for a nationwide ban on cellphone use, email and texting while driving, our current political paralysis makes the likelihood of that happening pretty remote.
Even if you remove politics from the equation, our track record of enforcing highway safety nationally isn't encouraging. After all,]]></description>
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		<title>Would you shed pounds for cash?</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/would-you-shed-pounds-for-cash/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/would-you-shed-pounds-for-cash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If shedding the holiday poundage tops your New Year's resolution list and you happen to live in Colorado, one health insurance company will make it worth your while to be the biggest loser.
Taking its cue from the popular fat-burning TV series, Kaiser Permanente Colorado's new "Weigh and Win" program offers cash to all adult Coloradans]]></description>
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		<title>What if the big one hits Midwest?</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/what-if-the-big-one-hits-midwest/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/what-if-the-big-one-hits-midwest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[earthquake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeowners insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What would happen if a major earthquake hit the Midwest? It turns out one did – three, actually – exactly 200 years ago this month, with their epicenter in New Madrid, a frontier trading post in southeastern Missouri about 150 miles downriver from St. Louis.
A new report from AIR Worldwide risk modeling used the bicentennial]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Here come home rate increases</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/here-come-home-rate-increases/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/here-come-home-rate-increases/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeowners insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I don't know about you but when I hear the phrase "Just in time for Christmas," I keep one hand on my wallet. This year, it might be a good idea to keep one eye on your homeowners insurance as well.
According to the global insurance brokerage firm Marsh, nearly half (48 percent) of all home insurance policies]]></description>
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		<title>No text is worth a human life</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/no-text-is-worth-a-human-life/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/no-text-is-worth-a-human-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auto insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently blowing my top at a particularly boneheaded move by a gadget-addled motorist in front of me when a friend who was riding shotgun whispered, "Don't forget, they're more important than you are."
Her remark brought a laugh and punctured my anger, but it also managed to hit, head-on as it were, the core issue]]></description>
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		<title>Should Facebook affect rates?</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/should-facebook-affect-rates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/should-facebook-affect-rates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auto insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeowners insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Could the information you post to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media come back to haunt you in the form of higher insurance rates?
Absolutely, according to a new study by Celent. In fact, the Boston-based research group predicts that within three years, social media will be integrated into underwriting practices for various types of]]></description>
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		<title>How to Grinch-proof Christmas</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/how-to-grinch-proof-christmas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/how-to-grinch-proof-christmas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auto insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ah, Christmastime, the season of good will, brotherhood and giving! Unfortunately, it's also the season for taking by the Grinches out there busily eyeing those brightly-papered packages on your backseat or beneath your tree.
A new national survey by Trusted Choice, aka the Independent Insurance Agents &#38; Brokers of America or "Big I," finds that 44 percent of]]></description>
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		<title>Allstate dumps the unbundled</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/allstate-dumps-the-unbundled/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/allstate-dumps-the-unbundled/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auto insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeowners insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some Allstate home insurance customers are being shown the door by the "Good Hands" people for refusing to bundle their homeowners insurance and auto insurance policies.
Insurance Journal reports that Allstate recently informed some 45,000 North Carolina customers that it will not renew their homeowners insurance policies unless they also purchase commercial or private auto insurance]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>226</slash:comments>
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		<title>Are health incentives unfair?</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/are-health-incentives-unfair/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/are-health-incentives-unfair/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since employer-sponsored health insurance programs apparently haven't moved the needle by offering premium breaks to workers who stop smoking and shed the pounds, corporate America has decided to pick up the stick instead.
A new report by Towers Watson found that employer policies that charge higher premiums for smoking, obesity and high cholesterol have doubled in]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>This toothache felt in wallet</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/this-toothache-felt-in-wallet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/this-toothache-felt-in-wallet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After a 10-minute visit to an emergency room to treat his toothache, Kalyan Sircar hit the street with two prescriptions, a bill for $1,367.30 and a new outlook on health care.
"I learned my lesson – never enter the emergency room alive," he told the St. Petersburg Times.
Sircar's ER shocker should serve as a cautionary tale to those]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>How to insure a holiday bash</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/how-to-insure-a-holiday-bash/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/how-to-insure-a-holiday-bash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auto insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeowners insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you plan to throw a major holiday bash this season, you need not bear the financial risk alone should a random blizzard, icy roads or no-show vendors spoil the party of a lifetime.
The new Protector Plan for Events from Travelers extends their affordable wedding insurance line into other major life events, including private parties]]></description>
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		<title>Job No. 1: affordable health care</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/job-1-affordable-health-care/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/job-1-affordable-health-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What will those bronze-silver-gold-platinum health insurance plans ultimately look like when the government-run state exchanges mandated by health care reform open for business in 2014?
A recent report by the independent Institute of Medicine recommends that, above all else, the new plans must be affordable with a capital A. The recommendations apply to plans that will]]></description>
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		<title>Are you a highway hothead?</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/are-you-a-highway-hothead/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/are-you-a-highway-hothead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auto insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The more you identify with your vehicle, the more likely you are to blow your top in traffic, according to a new study aimed at opening the hood on highway hotheads.
Like the rest of us, auto insurance companies included, Ayalla Ruvio wondered what makes aggressive drivers tick. So the assistant professor at Temple University's Fox]]></description>
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		<title>Part-timers lose health plans</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/part-timers-lose-health-plans/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/part-timers-lose-health-plans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[American businesses are leaving more and more part-time employees at the curb and uninsured when it comes to employer-based health insurance coverage.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is the latest major employer to turn its back on these forgotten workers. Last month, the nation's largest retailer announced that it would no longer offer health insurance benefits to its new]]></description>
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		<title>10 cellphone driving excuses</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/ten-cellphone-driving-excuses/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/ten-cellphone-driving-excuses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auto insurance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=9206</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Motorists who insist on using handheld cellphones while driving continue to take a deadly toll on those unfortunate enough to cross their paths.

The U.S. Transportation Department reports that 5,474 people were killed in 4,898 crashes caused by distraction in 2009, down slightly from the 5,838 killed in 5,307 crashes in 2008. In both years, distracted]]></description>
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		<title>Keep treats, avoid the tricks!</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/keep-treats-avoid-the-tricks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/keep-treats-avoid-the-tricks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auto insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeowners insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insurance rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life insurance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=9150</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Next Monday, all sorts of mayhem may test the limits of your homeowners insurance, auto insurance, health insurance – and BOO!, maybe even your life insurance! I’m talking about Halloween, of course, lest you were thinking Occupy Wall Street.
On the hideously disfigured face of it, Halloween ranks second behind the Fourth of July as the]]></description>
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		<title>Auto gizmo tracks kids in cars</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/auto-gizmo-tracks-kids-in-cars/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/auto-gizmo-tracks-kids-in-cars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auto insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auto insurance rates]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=9037</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have kids of driving age, you worry about them every time they pull away from the house.  "It's not your driving, dear; it's all the irresponsible ones out there, partying and texting and endangering society," you assure them, secretly hoping your teen isn't one of them.
Travelers recently introduced a new auto insurance program called]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Private unemployment insurance?</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/private-unemployment-insurance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/private-unemployment-insurance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert DiGiacomo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment insurance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=8966</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With unemployment benefits guaranteed for only six months in most states, laid-off workers should have a plan B for when benefits run out.
One insurance product that tries to bridge the gap between state unemployment benefits and a worker's former salary is private unemployment insurance from Assura Group. The supplemental policy provides up to half of your wages]]></description>
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		<title>No easy solution for CLASS Act</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/no-easy-solution-for-class-act/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/no-easy-solution-for-class-act/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[long-term care insurance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=8974</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Was it better to have tried to solve a conundrum like long-term care insurance and lost than never to have tried at all?
No doubt that's what the Obama administration and Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and her crew at Health and Human Services are wondering in the wake of last week's decision to shelve the search for]]></description>
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		<title>Breast Cancer Month matters</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/breast-cancer-month-matters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/breast-cancer-month-matters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=8913</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It's not customary to wish one another Happy Breast Cancer Awareness Month every October, but maybe it should be. It's our collective squeamishness (read: denial) about the Big C that keeps us so strangely passive and uninvolved.
That's understandable; we don't have a lot of control over who gets cancer or how long it will take to find its]]></description>
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		<title>NFIP stuck in &#8216;Groundhog Day&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/nfip-stuck-in-groundhog-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/nfip-stuck-in-groundhog-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flood insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NFIP]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=8784</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The National Flood Insurance Program remains stuck in a "Groundhog Day" scenario, fated to relive the same short-term extension scenario over and over until Congress puts on its big-boy pants and commits to a sustainable overhaul that will last longer than green bananas.
President Obama put pen to the Fiscal Year 2012 Continuing Resolution on Wednesday,]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme test for health reform</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/supreme-test-for-health-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/supreme-test-for-health-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=8711</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the Supreme Court prepares to administer a constitutional checkup to President Barack Obama's historic health care reform, I would respectfully request that they weigh the alternative as well.
The 26 states opposing the Affordable Care Act insist that its individual mandate, which requires all Americans to purchase health insurance or face a fine beginning in]]></description>
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		<title>Are health insurers piling on?</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/are-health-insurers-piling-on/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/are-health-insurers-piling-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=8621</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The financial burden of health insurance for American workers and their families increased this year in what some analysts predict may be a harbinger of premiums to come.
According to the annual survey released Tuesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research &#38; Educational Trust, the average cost for employer-sponsored family health insurance rose]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>A million votes for Obamacare</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/a-million-votes-for-obamacare/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/a-million-votes-for-obamacare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Affordable Care Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=8515</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One million more young adults are covered by health insurance today than last year, thanks to President Obama's health care reform package.
While the sputtering economy has caused an alarming number of Americans to drop their health coverage, a new Gallup poll found one bright spot: the number of adults ages 18 to 25 without health insurance]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Social Security no Ponzi ploy</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/social-security-no-ponzi-ploy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/social-security-no-ponzi-ploy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retirement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Security]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=8437</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Let's cut to the chase regarding Texas Gov. Rick Perry's outlandish assertion that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme: It just ain't so, with a Texas-size period.
The fact that Perry's remark garnered cheers from a largely tea party crowd at last week's GOP presidential debate only illustrates that neither the governor nor the tea partiers]]></description>
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		<title>The war on women&#8217;s health</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/the-war-on-womens-health/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/the-war-on-womens-health/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=8367</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of the same forces behind the constitutional challenge to President Obama's historic health care reform are simultaneously waging an unconstitutional war on women's health.
Laura Bassett, writing in Huffington Post, says that 18 states have passed one or more measures to limit the services that Planned Parenthood can offer in what she calls an "unprecedented]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>How 9/11 redefined insurance</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/how-911-redefined-insurance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/how-911-redefined-insurance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workers' compensation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=8249</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When terrorists attacked New York's World Trade Center 10 years ago this weekend, it was the largest single insurance loss in history, resulting in an estimated $33 billion in insured damages and shaking the insurance industry worldwide.
Robert Hartwig, president of the Insurance Information Institute, witnessed firsthand the attacks on what is now known as Ground]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cheapest US health care city?</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/cheapest-u-s-healthcare-city/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/cheapest-u-s-healthcare-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auto insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeowners insurance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=8189</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Shopping for cheap employer-sponsored health insurance? You might want to avoid upscale destinations in Arizona and Florida and instead look into a job in "flyover country" -- Texas, Arkansas and the Midwest.
According to a new study by Thomson Reuters, moving from the nation's most expensive to the least expensive employer-based health care market could save you $4,600]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Will Irene finally fix NFIP?</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/will-irene-finally-fix-nfip/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/will-irene-finally-fix-nfip/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flood insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeowners insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natural disasters]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=8109</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As predicted, Hurricane Irene developed into the "perfect storm," an enormous, lumbering continent-sized sponge from hell that seemed to soak up half the Atlantic Ocean and redistribute it with disastrous effect from the Carolinas to the Canadian border.
Experts predict that Irene could rank as one of the 10 costliest natural disasters in U.S. history, with]]></description>
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		<title>Got quake insurance? Uh, no</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/got-quake-insurance-uh-no/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/got-quake-insurance-uh-no/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auto insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[earthquake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeowners insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natural disasters]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=7964</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The 5.8-magnitude earthquake that rocked Virginia and rattled the Eastern Seaboard Tuesday shook more than the floorboards: It also awakened millions of Americans to the fact that their homeowners insurance likely does not cover earthquakes.
As homeowners in California and other quake-prone states well know, earthquakes are generally excluded from a standard homeowners insurance policy, along]]></description>
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		<title>Health reform&#8217;s yogurt label</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/health-reforms-yogurt-label/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/health-reforms-yogurt-label/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Affordable Care Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=7924</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Will shopping for health insurance one day be as easy as shopping for yogurt? The engineers behind the health care reform rollout are giving it their best shot with their draft of a simplified standard summary form that aims to take the "un" out of unintelligible.
The draft summary, published by the Department of Health and Human]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Care and feeding of strawmen</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/care-and-feeding-of-straw-men/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/care-and-feeding-of-straw-men/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workers' compensation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=7847</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you want to get something done -- or more to the point, undone -- in this country, you need a good strawman. Their numbers have been growing lately, especially in the debates over health care reform and state battles over workers' compensation.
A "strawman" is a slang term for a sham argument propped up to]]></description>
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		<title>Credit slide smacks insurers</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/credit-slide-smacks-insurers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/credit-slide-smacks-insurers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disability insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retirement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Standard & Poor's]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=7697</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Standard &#038; Poor's downgrade of the U.S. credit rating resulted in a similar slap for 10 U.S. insurance companies that back their life insurance, disability insurance and retirement products with strong holdings in Uncle Sam.
The ratings agency lowered from AAA to AA+ the long-term credit and financial strength ratings on five U.S. insurers: Knights]]></description>
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		<title>Will Allstate agents unionize?</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/will-allstate-agents-unionize/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/will-allstate-agents-unionize/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Allstate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insurance agents]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=7607</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember the classic sales contest scene from "Glengarry Glen Ross": First prize is a Cadillac Eldorado, second prize is a set of steak knives and third prize is you're fired? That's the game a group of Allstate agents says the insurance giant is playing with their livelihoods.
According to Insurance Journal, the National Association of Professional]]></description>
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		<title>Contraceptives without copays</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/contraceptives-without-copays/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/contraceptives-without-copays/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Affordable Care Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If health care reform hasn't already sufficiently angered opponents by requiring everyone to purchase health insurance beginning in 2014, it will likely kindle a firestorm by making contraceptives and voluntary sterilization procedures more affordable for American women.
On Monday, the Department of Health and Human Services announced new preventive-care guidelines that will require all health insurance]]></description>
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		<title>The boss has a heart after all</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/the-boss-has-a-heart-after-all/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/the-boss-has-a-heart-after-all/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=7439</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As employers continue to shift the burden for health insurance costs onto their employees, there appears to be one line they are unwilling to cross: the so-called "third rail" coverage for dependent medical care.
A recent survey of 156 business executives by the benefit consulting firm Corporate Synergies Group and the Financial Executives Research Foundation found]]></description>
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		<title>The Amy Winehouse rehab blues</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/the-amy-winehouse-rehab-blues/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/the-amy-winehouse-rehab-blues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pre-existing Condition Health Insurance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=7375</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The troubled life of British retro-soul singer Amy Winehouse ended last Saturday at the age of 27. While the official cause of death remains a mystery, it's a fair guess that her public battle with substance abuse contributed to her tragic end.
Winehouse thus became the latest victim of the Forever 27 club, named for the]]></description>
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		<title>Keep your data off my body!</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/keep-your-data-off-my-body/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/keep-your-data-off-my-body/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FICO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeowners insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life insurance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=7292</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Prepare to be scared: The FICO credit score people, claim they can now extrapolate from publically available home ownership and job status data the likelihood that you'll be a good, doctor-fearing consumer and take your medications as directed.
In yet another unwelcome intrusion into our personal lives masquerading as a jackpot of wonderfulness for the common man,]]></description>
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		<title>Mixed bag on flood reform</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/mixed-bag-on-flood-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/mixed-bag-on-flood-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disaster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flood insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insurance companies]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=7173</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Good news and bad news on flood insurance this week. The good news: The House overwhelmingly approved a bill that would reauthorize the National Flood Insurance Program for five whole years. The bad news: It would bump the annual rate increase limit from 10 percent to 20 percent.
House passage of the Flood Insurance Reform Act]]></description>
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		<title>The party&#8217;s over on home rates</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/the-partys-over-on-home-rates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/the-partys-over-on-home-rates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeowners insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insurance rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natural disasters]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=6882</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Talk about irony: It is entirely conceivable that we will look back on the Great Recession as the good old days -- of homeowners insurance rates, that is.
Despite a passing nod to the recession that saw a rare 3.8 percent decrease in national average premiums to $791 in 2008, homeowners insurance rate averages rose to $807]]></description>
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		<title>Making life insurers pay up</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/making-life-insurers-pay-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/making-life-insurers-pay-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insurance benefits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life insurance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=7021</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you've ever purchased life insurance, you've probably had that fleeting thought cross your mind: What if they don't pay up? After all, it's not like you'll be in any position to do much about it.
Well, it seems that life insurers sometimes don't pay up. And now a lynch mob of state attorneys general wants to]]></description>
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		<title>Big day for health care reform</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/big-day-for-health-care-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/big-day-for-health-care-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=6892</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act cleared another legal hurdle Wednesday with the help of a deciding vote from an unlikely ally -- a Republican judge.
The three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati ruled 2-1 in favor of health care reform's individual mandate provision that will require all Americans to purchase]]></description>
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		<title>Taking it in the breaches</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/taking-it-in-the-breaches/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/taking-it-in-the-breaches/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auto insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cyberinsurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[data breach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sony hack]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=6828</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recent data breaches at America's most secure fortresses, from the U.S. Senate and Lockheed Martin to Citigroup and Google, have sparked renewed corporate interest in "cyberinsurance." But you may need a hacker to decode these new cyber policies.
Insurance Journal reports that a rash of recent headline-making hacks, including the breach of 100 million Sony customer]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s the economy, stupid!</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/its-the-economy-stupid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/its-the-economy-stupid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=6760</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that the 2012 presidential election is underway, great bloviating will surely follow on which hot-button issue will ultimately move the electorate.  My vote? Forget Afghanistan, forget bin Laden, forget health care reform – once again, it's the economy, stupid!
Lest we have any doubts about the continued grievous state of suspended animation on Main Street,]]></description>
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		<title>Ill winds threaten home rates</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/ill-winds-threaten-home-rates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/ill-winds-threaten-home-rates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeowners insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insurance rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natural disasters]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=6634</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How rough have the recent natural disasters been on insurance companies? So rough that they could trigger a climb in homeowners insurance rates not seen since the aftermath of 9/11.
According to a report by Marsh &#38; McLennan reinsurance brokerage, global catastrophes during the past 16 months have cost insurers $100 billion. The losses have already]]></description>
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		<title>Smokers choke on new surcharge</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/smokers-choke-on-new-surcharge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/smokers-choke-on-new-surcharge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Affordable Care Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=6550</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you smoke, you may soon choke on the cost of your health insurance. Why? Because those of us who don't smoke are sick and tired of paying for your habit -- and thanks to health care reform, soon we may no longer have to.
It's estimated that each employee who smokes may cost their employer more]]></description>
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		<title>A CARFAX for homebuyers</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/a-carfax-for-homebuyers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/a-carfax-for-homebuyers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[buy a house]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homebuyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeowners insurance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=6446</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently bowed out of a home purchase because of what I couldn't see as opposed to what I could. A previous owner had installed a new roof over a portion of the old one, leaving no room for an inspector to peer between the two. When active termites were discovered in an adjoining exterior]]></description>
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		<title>Bust the CEOs? It&#8217;s a start!</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/bust-the-ceos-its-a-start/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/bust-the-ceos-its-a-start/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=6339</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems federal investigators are so fed up with corporate Medicare and Medicaid fraud that they now plan to prosecute the well-heeled executives of the offending companies. I love the sheer righteousness of this move, but I'm afraid it's going to wind up another costly snipe hunt.
With Medicare's solvency ticking down like an expiring parking]]></description>
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		<title>Medicare&#8217;s big red nose</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/medicares-big-red-nose/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/medicares-big-red-nose/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 14:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=6291</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Congressional debate over the future of Medicare reminds me of that iconic electronic board game "Operation," where the goal is to carefully remove a toxic organ without killing the patient.
The pundits recently decreed that the issue of Medicare will decide the 2012 presidential election, based upon polling results in the upset victory of a Democrat]]></description>
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		<title>Will twisters blow away rates?</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/will-twisters-blow-away-rates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/will-twisters-blow-away-rates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 14:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeowners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeowners insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insurance companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natural disasters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rates]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=6198</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[First, the good news: The end-of-the-world predictions of an octogenarian minister did not come to pass last weekend. The bad news? The violent tornadoes that followed may mark the end of homeowners insurance rates as we know them.
Property and casualty insurers were already bracing for record losses from the winter-spring double weather whammy when Sunday's]]></description>
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		<title>This is the way the world ends</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/this-is-the-way-the-world-ends/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/this-is-the-way-the-world-ends/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 14:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auto insurance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=6060</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What does the rising price of fuel have to do with your homeowners insurance or auto insurance rates? Most of us don't have a clue, present company included.
But thumbing through the highlights of a presentation by Atlanta actuary Gail Tverberg to the Casualty Actuarial Society in a recent Insurance Journal opened my eyes to how]]></description>
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		<title>Tulips and health care costs</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/tulips-and-health-care-costs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/tulips-and-health-care-costs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 14:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=5983</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Like tulips, health care spending reports pop up this time every year. Unlike tulips, they've been a little hard on the eyes lately.
The Thomson Reuters Healthcare Spending Index for Private Insurance reports that the cost of health care for individuals covered by employer-sponsored health insurance rose 5.8 percent in 2010, a dip from the 6.6]]></description>
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		<title>Gas prices up = accidents down</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/gas-prices-up-accidents-down/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/gas-prices-up-accidents-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 14:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auto insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gas prices]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=5793</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When gas prices go up as they have lately, auto accidents go down, according to a new study by Mississippi State's Social Science Research Center published in the Journal of Safety Research and Accident Analysis and Prevention. But chances are any money you might save on your auto insurance will just flow back into your gas tank.
Researcher Guangqing]]></description>
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		<title>Insure before you say &#8216;I do&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/insure-before-you-say-i-do/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/insure-before-you-say-i-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 14:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auto insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeowners insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wedding]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=5815</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Planning a June wedding? Don't forget to insure it!
According to the Insurance Information Institute, by the time you've finished paying for the flowers, rings, parties and pictures, the average American wedding costs $16,000. That means you've likely bet $3,000-$6,000 in nonrefundable deposits that your big day will come off as planned.
Wedding insurance is a cost-effective]]></description>
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		<title>Drivers cut corners, add risk</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/drivers-cut-corners-add-risk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/drivers-cut-corners-add-risk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 14:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auto insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Recession]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=5735</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Great Recession led to an increase in auto insurance risk on America's highways, according to two new reports.
The latest estimates by the Insurance Research Council indicate that one in seven drivers nationally have no auto insurance at all. The number of uninsured had been in a four-year decline before rising to 14.3 percent in 2008, then]]></description>
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		<title>Setback for repeal and replace</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/setback-for-repeal-and-replace/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/setback-for-repeal-and-replace/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Remember last January when the tea-toting, Ayn-Rand-quoting, neo-Reaganite freshman congressmen stormed Capitol Hill to the rallying cry, "Repeal and replace health care reform!"
Well, things haven't exactly gone their way.
While the frothing freshmen were basking in their own star turn on the Capitol steps ("Look! There's Marco Rubio!") and engaging in a schoolyard budget scuffle that threatened]]></description>
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		<title>Earth Day: Now more than ever</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/earth-day-now-more-than-ever/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/earth-day-now-more-than-ever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 14:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auto insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeowners insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hybrid cars]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today's Earth Day celebration takes on a growing urgency in light of the horrible mess our species has made of the planet in the past 12 months between the BP oil spill and the nuclear disaster in Japan. (Feel free to insert your own timely enviro-rant here.)
If there's a silver lining to this radioactive cloud,]]></description>
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		<title>Free term life from MassMutual</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/free-term-life-from-massmutual/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/free-term-life-from-massmutual/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[term life insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I'm as skeptical as the next guy when it comes to free offers, but Massachusetts Mutual's new LifeBridge program, which puts aside $50,000 in term life insurance absolutely free toward your children's education in the event of your untimely demise, appears to be the real deal.
If you qualify, MassMutual will place $50,000 into a 10-year]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8216;Workers&#8217; Comp,&#8217; the TV show</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/workers-comp-the-tv-show/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/workers-comp-the-tv-show/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workers' compensation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Can the zany antics of deadbeat employees who dare to collect workers' compensation compete with the white-collar humor of "The Office"? We'll see as production ramps up on "Workers' Comp," a new half-hour sitcom now shooting in Florida.
I blinked twice at the article about it in Insurance Journal. I mean, what could be funnier than]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Health reform&#8217;s silent fans</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/health-reforms-silent-fans/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/health-reforms-silent-fans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=5178</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For thousands of early retirees, health care reform has already proven invaluable. Without the Affordable Care Act's provision that has reimbursed their former employers $1.8 billion since last June, they'd be looking -- largely in vain -- for affordable health insurance in their 50s or early 60s.
Though it receives little attention in this highly-politicized debate, the Early]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Pay-as-you-drive goes national</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/pay-as-you-drive-goes-national/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/pay-as-you-drive-goes-national/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 14:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auto insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Progressive]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After kicking the tires for several years, Progressive has finally gone nationwide with its Snapshot pay-as-you-drive auto insurance program, offering discounts of up to 30 percent based on optional real-time analysis of your driving habits.
You may have heard of Snapshot, a monitoring device that plugs into your vehicle's onboard diagnostics port and wirelessly feeds driving]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Transitioning to parenthood</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/transitioning-to-parenthood/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/transitioning-to-parenthood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 13:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elle Martinez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[baby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budgeting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[frugal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[savings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My husband and I are expecting our first child this summer. We've been working hard to be as prepared as we can. Our schedules have changed as we now have doctor appointments and ultrasounds. We've been reading parenting books and asking family and friends for their experiences and advice.
Besides the lifestyle and emotional adjustments, we]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Home inventory a snap with app</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/home-inventory-a-snap-with-app/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/home-inventory-a-snap-with-app/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeowners insurance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=5079</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Looking for a smartphone application, or app, that can save you time and shore up your homeowners insurance? Check out the new MyHome home inventory app from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, or NAIC.
The new MyHome Scr.APP.book, available free at the iTunes store, enables you to easily capture images, descriptions and documentation, including original sales receipts,]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Psychobabble and health reform</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/psychobabble-and-health-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/psychobabble-and-health-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Affordable Care Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have long suspected that there is an inverse relationship between the height of an academic's ivory tower and the amount of oxygen that reaches their brain. A new study by three Duke University behavioral scientists on health care reform certainly seems to bear this out. I caught a whiff of it from their op-ed]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Dr. Watson will see you now</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/dr-watson-will-see-you-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/dr-watson-will-see-you-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ 
The clue: "Medical consulting and health insurance." The correct question: What will IBM's superbrainiac computer Watson do after vanquishing its human opponents on the TV game show "Jeopardy"?
Insurance Journal reports that Mr. Smarty-sans-pants has already digitally signed a deal to help those pathetically slow human doctors and nurses pick up the pace when it comes]]></description>
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		<title>Nuclear meltdown insurance</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/nuclear-meltdown-insurance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/nuclear-meltdown-insurance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auto insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It may be impossible to measure the human toll from last week's 9.0 earthquake in northeastern Japan considering the uncertain future ahead for thousands of survivors now exposed to massive doses of radiation from the area's damaged nuclear power plants.
Insurance modeler EQECAT estimates the insured loss from the quake, including the fires and tsunami that]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Flood map changes can sink you</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/flood-map-changes-can-sink-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/flood-map-changes-can-sink-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeowners insurance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=4697</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Where I live on the western shore of Tampa Bay, Fla., many homeowners are required to purchase flood insurance in addition to their homeowners insurance policy. The reason: Most homeowners policies will only cover you for water that comes from the sky, not from the ground up. Those ground-up events are insured through the National Flood]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Health reform and gun rights?</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/health-reform-and-gun-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/health-reform-and-gun-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here in Florida, it remains open season on President Barack Obama's health care reform. Florida, of course, is leading the 26-state challenge to the health care overhaul. Our new Governor, Rick Scott, just sent a big no thanks to Washington, turning down the startup funds to get things rolling on health care reform at the]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mexican rental car hat dance</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/mexican-rental-car-hat-dance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/mexican-rental-car-hat-dance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[car insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you're preparing to head south to sunny Cancun, the Riviera Maya or other Mexican beach destination for spring break, beware of the old Mexican hat dance involving rental car insurance.
Here's how this hat dance works: you're booking your rental car online and lock in a killer rate of $9.99 a day for a midsize that purports to include]]></description>
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		<title>Marijuana grower&#8217;s insurance?</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/marijuana-growers-insurance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/marijuana-growers-insurance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auto insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since taking the reins of this blog, I've developed a fascination with exotic insurance products that has lured me into some pretty weird territory: divorce insurance, fantasy football insurance, reality TV insurance and weather event insurance. I thought I could kick after a freakish Christmas Day snowfall buried Asheville, N.C., in the last instance, resulting in free]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Inside the &#8216;Disaster Blaster&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/inside-the-disaster-blaster/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/inside-the-disaster-blaster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeowners insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On a recent afternoon in a massive new facility in South Carolina, a team of homeowners insurance researchers spent $40 million to knock down a brand new two-story house in a little more than 12 minutes, then cheered afterward.
Sure, $40 million is a lot of money -- but it's peanuts compared to the insights that the]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fan letter to Justin Bieber</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/fan-letter-to-justin-bieber/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/fan-letter-to-justin-bieber/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Justin,
First, you were totally robbed at the Grammys, dude. I'm no music critic, but if being the biggest star on the planet doesn't warrant Best New Artist, then Lady GaGa doesn't dress funny. But whatever. You're 16. You've got time.
What caught my interest, other than your totally buck duet with Usher, were your comments]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>How should we insure scooters?</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/how-should-we-insure-scooters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/how-should-we-insure-scooters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 15:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auto insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To put it bluntly, America is getting older and wider. By 2025, the number of Americans age 65 and older will be 66 million. Two out of every three Americans are overweight; one in three is obese. Add these statistics to the population of Americans with disabilities, illnesses or injuries that prevent walking and it's little wonder]]></description>
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		<title>Staying alive on workers&#8217; comp</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/staying-alive-on-workers-comp/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/staying-alive-on-workers-comp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workers' compensation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Life insurance, health insurance and homeowners insurance companies aren't the only ones growing impatient with America's anemic jobs picture. Insurers that cover work-related injuries also are feeling the pinch as more Americans linger longer on workers' compensation.
According to Reuters, at least one workers' comp specialist, SeaBright, added to reserves last year because of higher medical costs and longer]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Health reform alive and well</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/health-reform-alive-and-well/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/health-reform-alive-and-well/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As expected, Florida U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson ruled this week in favor of a Florida-led lawsuit filed by 26 states to block health care reform.
Vinson's ruling, like that of Virginia Judge and fellow Republican appointee Henry Hudson in December, found unconstitutional the individual mandate of the Affordable Care Act, or ACA, that requires all]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hurricane rates move inland</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/hurricane-rates-move-inland/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/hurricane-rates-move-inland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just because you live inland doesn't mean you're safe from hurricanes – or their potential impact on your homeowners insurance rates. A new computer model due out this spring could redraw the map on America's hurricane territory and stick many inland homeowners with the bill.
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports that forthcoming computer models by Risk Management]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Deregulation? Really?</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/deregulation-really/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/deregulation-really/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Now that they've passed the repeal portion of their largely symbolic repeal and replace campaign against health care reform in the House, the Republican majority has finally unveiled its replacement plan.
And what would these would-be fiscal conservatives replace health care reform with?
Envelope please: Deregulation!
Seriously.
More than 60 House Republicans signed on to a new bill Thursday]]></description>
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		<title>Obamacare courts the Supremes</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/obamacare-courts-the-supremes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/obamacare-courts-the-supremes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I enjoyed the Republican repeal and replace protest on Capitol Hill this week as all those earnest new GOP and tea party representatives got their first chance to vote yes on no, in this case on health care reform. It was a short, symbolic measure, full of sound and fury, ultimately signifying nothing, since tout le beltway knows that this]]></description>
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		<title>Insurers gang up on Toyota</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/insurers-gang-up-on-toyota/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/insurers-gang-up-on-toyota/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auto insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Toyota rang in the New Year with a nasty case of déjà vu as seven U.S. auto insurance companies gang-tackled the automaker in court over crashes they claim were caused by a mysterious sudden-acceleration problem.
The Los Angeles Times reports that lawsuits filed last week in Los Angeles County Superior Court seek damages in excess of]]></description>
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		<title>Backup cameras move forward</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/backup-cameras-move-forward/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/backup-cameras-move-forward/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auto insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cars]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Full implementation of health care reform isn't the only 2014 deadline on the horizon. That's also the year the federal government wants automakers to install backup cameras as standard equipment on all new vehicles, a move strongly backed by the auto insurance industry.
Today, only about 20 percent of new vehicles sport the backup camera safety]]></description>
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		<title>Doggone good news for &#8216;bad dogs&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/doggone-good-news-for-bad-dogs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/doggone-good-news-for-bad-dogs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 15:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auto insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeowners insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I've been a dog guy all my life. My two Golden Retrievers are a constant source of love and entertainment as they teach me to be a better human. While owning two Air Buds won't prevent me from obtaining homeowners insurance, owning other breeds might.
I don't like it, but I understand it. The tragedies caused]]></description>
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		<title>5 money mistakes to avoid in 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/5-money-mistakes-to-avoid-in-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/5-money-mistakes-to-avoid-in-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Edwards</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contributor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cyber crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FSA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[money mistakes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Did you make any money mistakes this year? Here are five things I did wrong with my finances that you'll want to avoid in 2011.
1. Gambling with insurance
I breathed a sigh of relief when we moved into a new home in 2010. We loved our old house but it was in a 500-year flood plain and we]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas miracle in Asheville, N.C.</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/christmas-miracle-in-asheville-nc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/christmas-miracle-in-asheville-nc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auto insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As Christmas miracles go, what happened last week in North Carolina totally rocked -- as in free diamonds -- and insurance made it happen. Well, insurance and more than eight inches of snow.
In my Christmas Eve blog, I showcased a festive two-week promotion by Wilmington jeweler Alan Perry, who pledged to refund every purchase made]]></description>
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		<title>Get term while the price is right</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/get-term-while-the-price-is-right/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/get-term-while-the-price-is-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[term life insurance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=3363</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I dawdled for several years before I "solved" my life insurance needs with a low-cost term life policy. I say "solved" because I never really felt the door slam or the curtain drop on the whole life insurance issue once I'd studied the insurance rates, compared insurance quotes and signed the contract. For me, it]]></description>
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		<title>Free diamonds on Christmas Day?</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/free-diamonds-on-christmas-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/free-diamonds-on-christmas-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 15:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auto insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A snowfall on Christmas Day could mean a $500,000 windfall for lucky jewelry store customers in Asheville, N.C., thanks to a farm-tested specialty insurance product that is catching on in a whole new way these days.
Jeweler Alan Perry ran a store promotion at Perry's Emporium between Nov. 26 and Dec. 11 with a promise that]]></description>
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		<title>Rocky road ahead for Obamacare</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/rocky-road-ahead-for-obamacare/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/rocky-road-ahead-for-obamacare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=3211</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Health care reform suffered a legal setback this week when a federal judge in Virginia sided with state opponents who claim that the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate requiring all Americans to obtain health insurance beginning in 2014 is unconstitutional.
In contradicting two prior opinions, Federal District Judge Henry Hudson ruled that the keystone provision of]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Dozing and driving a deadly mix</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/dozing-and-driving-a-deadly-mix/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/dozing-and-driving-a-deadly-mix/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auto insurance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=3115</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Want to help bring down your auto insurance rate? Have a cup of coffee before you hit the road.
A new study by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety found that 4 out of 10 drivers surveyed admit they've fallen asleep at the wheel, 1 in 10 within the past year. This despite the fact that]]></description>
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		<title>Health care reform&#8217;s biggest con</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/health-care-reforms-biggest-con/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/health-care-reforms-biggest-con/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It's a safe bet that big health insurance, big pharma, and heck, pretty much all of the "bigs" would prefer that you ignore an incendiary new book called "Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans."
It's written by Wendell Potter, former head of corporate]]></description>
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		<title>Is long-term care a sucker&#8217;s bet?</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/is-long-term-care-a-suckers-bet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/is-long-term-care-a-suckers-bet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 15:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[long-term care insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you've ever wondered how you might one day afford home health care or a nursing home, recent word from the long-term care insurance front was hardly encouraging: MetLife, the nation's largest life insurance company, is pulling out of the LTC game at year's end. The company will continue to honor all existing contracts however.
Why]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Top 10 winter insurance questions</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/top-10-winter-insurance-questions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/top-10-winter-insurance-questions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auto insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Old Man Winter makes his grand entrance this time every year, blowing in like a drunken uncle with just enough mayhem and mischief to disrupt best-laid holiday plans. If you're unsure how your home insurance or auto insurance will hold up under winter's onslaught, here's a pop quiz on coverage for winter-related events:  
1. Your]]></description>
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		<title>LiLo and the insurance trap</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/lilo-and-the-insurance-trap/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/lilo-and-the-insurance-trap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 15:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auto insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I'm not quite sure how Lindsay Lohan wound up as the poster child of auto insurance, life insurance and now entertainment insurance casualties. Perhaps Charlie Sheen was busy. And who's crazy enough to dial up Mel Gibson, am I right?
No matter: LiLo excels as the petulant role model for how to become uninsurable.
In case you]]></description>
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		<title>Turkey insurance? Believe it!</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/turkey-insurance-believe-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/turkey-insurance-believe-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[holidays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeowners insurance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=2670</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Let's talk turkey, shall we? Specifically, this unspeakable, artery-clogging, make-Julia Child-roll-over-in-her-grave practice of subjecting a perfectly toned Tom to the ignominy of a deep-fat fryer. It's just wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. On so many levels, not least of which is what this culinary crime might do to your homeowners insurance.
As a public service, allow me]]></description>
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		<title>He ain&#8217;t heavy, he&#8217;s my employer</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/he-aint-heavy-hes-my-employer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insurance/he-aint-heavy-hes-my-employer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[They've cut your pay, slashed your hours and doubled your workload. What else can your boss possibly do to make your life more miserable?
How about cut your health insurance?
According to a new survey of U.S. Chief Financial Officers and senior comptrollers by Grant Thornton LLP, 30 percent of U.S. employers are looking to reduce health]]></description>
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