Affordable Health InsuranceAffordable health insurance is a topic that politicians love to debate about. The slowness of theeconomy and rising prices surrounding the nation have not been too good for the health抮insurance industry. In fact, finding affordable health insurance can be not only a challenge tosome people, but an absolute nightmare as well. If you e lucky enough to work for a companythat offers health insurance of some sort, you may not have to worry about finding anything else.However, if you work part-time or are in need of health insurance, you may find yourself upagainst that challenge.Everyone has their own idea of what affordable health insurance is, but yet, everyone wants thebest coverage. Depending on your age, your health and your habits ?you may end up paying farmore or far less than someone else that you know. A neighbor may have gotten insurancethrough a certain company for incredibly cheap. You head to the same agency assuming thatyou can get the same rates. They take into consideration the fact that you smoke and are a few抯 抰years older and you suddenly get a quote that is twice what he paying. It doesn seem fair.
抰Your best way to find affordable health insurance is to shop around. You can expect to callthe first place you find and get the very best deal. You should get at least three different quotes抮from different companies. Depending on what you e focusing the most of receiving ?a low抮deductible, low co-pay for doctor visits or prescription plans, you can find exactly what you e抮seeking as long as you e willing to be patient and perhaps a little bit flexible. You might find抰that you have found a great price for a package but your current doctor won accept your newinsurance. You have to decide if you want to change your doctor or your package. Littledecisions like that can have a major impact on the prices that you will pay.You could scour the internet looking for sites that will allow you to compare varying companiesor trying to sell you their packages, but it could end up being incredibly confusing. If you areable to find an insurance broker that is local for you, they might be your best solution. Thebroker can listen to what you want to find and search several different companies until they findaffordable health insurance that will suit your needs. If you happen to find a site online that抮allows you to compare various companies as well, you will soon have several individualscalling you to get you to buy whatever package they e selling. They might have somethingabsolutely perfect for you or they may just end up harassing you for days until you finally speakto them. But, shopping around and getting the best quotes are in your best interest. Finding alocal broker and putting them to work for you may also be a very wise decision in findingaffordable health insurance.Title:Healthcare Jobs Are Growing FastestWord Count:521Summary:With an aging population and new innovations in medical diagnosis and treatment, healthcarejobs are growing faster than in any other field. An aging population needs more health serviceswhile healthcare innovations increase the use of medications and the demand for treatmentfacilities.Keywords:Pharmacy Jobs, Pharmacy Technician Jobs, Locum Pharmacy Jobs, Locum PharmacyTechnician JobsArticle Body:With an aging population and new innovations in medical diagnosis and treatment, healthcarejobs are growing faster than in any other field. An aging population needs more health serviceswhile healthcare innovations increase the use of medications and the demand for treatmentfacilities.Even though healthcare provides job opportunities both to health services professionals andothers such as accountants, personnel officers, buyers, computer programmers and food servicepersonnel, the emphasis in this article is on health services professionals.
<b>Health Services Professionals</b>Health services require both professionals with advanced training and technicians with differentkinds of operational skills. We look at the range of healthcare jobs in this market. This is morean indicative list rather than an exhaustive one.<ul> <li>Physicians, dentists, chiropractors, optometrists and veterinarians are professionals whorequire varying levels of training</li> <li>Technologists and technicians in clinical laboratory, EEG, EKG, nuclear medicine,radiology and surgical work</li> <li>Health technicians like dental hygienists, dispensing opticians and emergency medicinetechnicians</li> <li>Dieticians and nutritionists, occupational, physical, recreational and respiratory therapistsand speech pathologists</li> <li>Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians</li> <li>Registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, nursing aides and psychiatric aides</li> <li>Home care nurse, health aides, medical assistants and social workers</li> <li>Medical billing specialist, coding specialist, patient account representative and insuranceclaims/reimbursement specialists</li> <li>Medical records technicians</li> <li>Medical transcriptionists</li></ul>As would be immediately evident, the field is quite extensive, and could extend further withnew innovations in diagnosis and treatment.<b>Healthcare Jobs Information Resources</b>Each of the healthcare jobs requires specialized training, certification and licensing. Being amatter of life and death, unlicensed practitioners are not allowed to work in healthcare fields.Licenses are granted by different states in the USA, and each state has its own licensingregulations.There are many sources for information on healthcare jobs.The US Department of Labor publishes projected demands for different kinds of labor. Similarprojections might be published by the healthcare industry also. These projections can help youselect a healthcare job that is in line with your inclinations and also promises a growingdemand.Then there are numerous career centers, on the ground and on the Web, which will provide youinformation about each job. You can get information on:<ul> <li>What the job involves. A description of the work that the job involves.</li> <li>Qualifications needed to be hired, and details of education and training needed to acquirethe qualifications</li> <li>Training institutions and admissions procedure</li> <li>The formalities regarding certifications and licensing, such as the need for internship</li> <li>Career progression paths indicating the potential for growth in job satisfaction andearnings</li> <li>Current earnings levels in each healthcare job</li> <li>Associations of healthcare professionals and technicians</li></ul>
These career centers also interview persons engaged in each occupation and publish theinterview details. These published interviews portray life in each profession, the kind ofsatisfaction it can provide, and give you a more realistic picture of what to expect if you chooseit.Title:Old Sexual Health Problem Making A Forceful ComebackWord Count:501Summary:Syphilis, which had long been thought nearly wiped out because of penicillin,is now starting tomake a comeback in a number of European and American cities. The problem, some expertsbelieve, is somewhat connected to people's attitudes about the treatment of HIV, which was theprimary sexual health concern of the previous decades. The focus on HIV, combined with theeroding awareness of syphilis, could possibly be the root cause of this resurgence.Keywords:sexual healthArticle Body:For many years, most people have considered syphilis to be a rare, limited problem. Firstcoming into notice during the heyday of the bohemians of the 19th century, it was known tomanifest only in the rarest of circumstances. In fact, to the average person, syphilis was hardlyenough of a concern to be considered a major sexual health problem. Even the disease's mostfamous victim, Al Capone, was better known for his criminal empire than for having the disease.Artists from the heyday of the bohemian movement, like Charles Baudelaire and Paul Gauguin,were suspected of having died from the illness, but there was never any confirmation of such.However, if reports from Europe are any sort of indication, then this might not be the case forvery long.The latest sexual health statistics show that the number of cases of people having syphilis are onthe rise across Europe. What was once among the rarest diseases, sexually-transmitted orotherwise, may become a more common public health concern, according to some members ofthe European Center for Disease Prevention and Control. In yet another break from thetraditionally-held tendencies of syphilis cases, the disease is starting to appear in more womenand heterosexual men, as opposed to previous instances where the cases were largely confinedto homosexual men, with only the occasional straight man found in the mix. The disease, withwas once seen as the sexual health equivalent of the Black Plague, was largely removed fromthe public eye by the widespread use of penicillin.There has been an unexpected return of cases of the illness in Europe, however, and not in thecities that one would expect. British cities seemed to experience a resurgence of the problem,
with an almost tenfold increase in cases for both men and women in London alone. Other cities,such as Amsterdam, Berlin, and Paris also experienced similar events, though most had them ona smaller scale. There are also some experts that believe the trend is starting to make anappearance in the US, with the Center for Disease Control effectively scrapping the plan toeliminate the disease entirely due to the 9,800 reported cases in 2006 alone. European doctorswere even reported to have been so off-guard about the problem that most didn't even realizethey were looking at cases of syphilis.Some believe that HIV and AIDS, as well as the treatments for the above, are partially to blame.The introduction of effective treatments that delay the inevitable effects of HIV may haveresulted in the public becoming more lenient with regards to protection from sexuallytransmitted disease. For the time being, most of the cases seem concentrated on gay men whosought other gay men, with statistics showing that most of them were HIV positive. Whether ornot this was related to the emergence of websites where HIV-positive men could seek otherHIV-positive men for sex is still uncertain, though preliminary analysis of the pertinent dataseems to suggest just that.
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