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		<title>Making your money off of dead soldiers?</title>
		<link>http://elmike.wordpress.com/2010/07/31/making-your-money-off-of-dead-soldiers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You should be able to trust your life insurance company, you should know the name of your agent and they should help you in every step of the process. This isn't how it should be.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elmike.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4371377&amp;post=323&amp;subd=elmike&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is my response to the Blue Cross savings fiasco. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elmike.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4371377&amp;post=319&amp;subd=elmike&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Women cost more, so lets charge them more?</title>
		<link>http://elmike.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/women-cost-more-so-lets-charge-them-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doesn&#8217;t that seem like a little bit of backward thinking? It is already a little bit ridiculous that companies can do gender-based price hikes in car insurance. I do not think it should be allowed to discriminate based on statistics. If you are going to provide insurance, you should provide it fairly, to everyone, for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elmike.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4371377&amp;post=312&amp;subd=elmike&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When has &#8216;grandfathering in&#8217; ever made anyone happy?</title>
		<link>http://elmike.wordpress.com/2010/06/17/when-has-grandfathering-in-ever-made-anyone-happy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Under the health reform law signed in March, health insurance plans must meet a variety of new requirements. But plans that existed before the law was signed can be &#8220;grandfathered in,&#8221; without necessarily having to meet all the new requirements.&#8221; http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2010/06/republicans-business-lobby-criticize-new-ins&#8230;urance-rules.html &#8211;I get that this will make it easier for the companies, but shouldn&#8217;t they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elmike.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4371377&amp;post=308&amp;subd=elmike&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do we need financial reform?</title>
		<link>http://elmike.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/do-we-need-financial-reform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 21:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The financial reform bill is no longer in debate. After much deliberation, they are now moving the bill forward to the final vote. This bill would give the government some control in winding down big businesses that are not doing well financially. This idea is supposed to keep us out of another recession, but that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elmike.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4371377&amp;post=301&amp;subd=elmike&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why the bail out spelled disaster</title>
		<link>http://elmike.wordpress.com/2010/04/25/why-the-bail-out-spelled-disaster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 17:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nouriel Roubini, or &#8220;Dr. Doom&#8221; as he has been dubbed by the media as well as those who have read his economical predictions, has said we are not out of the recession yet. In my opinion, we are just getting our feet wet right now. Americans have got to learn how to spend and save [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elmike.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4371377&amp;post=303&amp;subd=elmike&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Have we caused the recession?</title>
		<link>http://elmike.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/have-we-caused-the-recession/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nouriel Roubini, or &#8220;Dr. Doom&#8221; as he has been dubbed by the media as well as those who have read his economical predictions, has said we are not out of the recession yet. In my opinion, we are just getting our feet wet right now. Americans have got to learn how to spend and save [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elmike.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4371377&amp;post=304&amp;subd=elmike&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Explosion in an insurance office?</title>
		<link>http://elmike.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/explosion-in-an-insurance-office/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elmike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just read this article, http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601081&#38;sid=a5mAWarJ24TA &#8220;Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) &#8212; Fifteen people were admitted to hospital in the northern Australian city of Darwin today after an explosion at an insurance office, officials said.&#8221; Now, what I took from this is that even an insurance agency is not fully protected from unforeseen dangers. Now, what I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elmike.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4371377&amp;post=273&amp;subd=elmike&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ban on mandatory health insurance?</title>
		<link>http://elmike.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/269/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Although President Barack Obama&#8217;s push for a health care overhaul has stalled, conservative lawmakers in more than two-thirds of the states are forging ahead with constitutional amendments to ban government health insurance mandates.&#8221; This would mean that if you don&#8217;t want to have insurance, you don&#8217;t have to. For instance, if you have enough money [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elmike.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4371377&amp;post=269&amp;subd=elmike&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life Insurance cost calculator</title>
		<link>http://elmike.wordpress.com/2010/01/23/life-insurance-cost-calculator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 04:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/calcs/n_life/main.asp This is actually a really good way to see what it will cost you. I mean, maybe not totally accurate because you fill in estimated values yourself, but the amount needed is so high that it isn&#8217;t worth it at all not to have it and save a little every month. I don&#8217;t think [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elmike.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4371377&amp;post=296&amp;subd=elmike&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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