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Smart Grocery Shopping: How to Stretch Your Food Budget

Are your weekly trips to the grocery store busting your household budget? Do you wander the aisles aimlessly, hoping for dinner inspiration? Smart grocery shopping starts with three things: budgeting, menu planning and scoping out savings in store. Before your next supermarket trip, consider the tips below to help stretch your budget and put nutritious meals on the table. How Much Should You Spend? Many of us don’t know how much of our household budget we should allocate to food each month. The United States Department of Agriculture reported in 2009 that the average family of four spent around $185 on food per week. The report stated, however, that this food budget was not spent on what qualifies as a healthful diet. A family of four, with two children ages 6-11 …

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Can You Raise Backyard Chickens Without Changing Your Lifestyle?

There are a lot of ways homeowners are getting back in touch with nature. Some dig up high-maintenance lawns and install raised garden beds to produce their own food. Others save kitchen scraps and compost them in the back yard to reduce the amount of waste they produce. But there’s another growing “back to nature” trend: Enter the world of backyard chickens. Why are chickens popular right now? Rob Ludlow, owner of the chicken enthusiast site BackyardChickens.com, says interest in raising backyard chickens has spiked in recent years. His site, which started with just 50 members in 2007, now has an active membership of more than 235,000 members, with roughly 200 people joining each day, he says. So, why the growing interest of late? Ludlow, who is also co-author of …

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Memory of the Month: Racks of records

Each month, we share an image from GEICO’s past and invite you to exercise your caption-writing skills. This mid-1970s photo shows how GEICO stored policy records and other company information as it moved into the computer age. These IBM 3420 tape drives held about 120 megabytes of data. But converting from paper files to this type of data storage was a lengthy process; when I started at GEICO in 1984, we still had large areas of the headquarters building devoted to racks of policy papers in folders, in addition to racks of these storage tapes. And it would be many years after that before these types of tapes went completely out of use – in 2004, to be exact. We still use tape storage, but our preferred tape these …

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Affordable Life Insurance for Diabetics

Over 8% of the U.S. population has some form of diabetes. Most diabetics think they aren’t insurable, which couldn’t be further from the truth. Diabetics can find affordable life insurance, especially those who control their blood sugars well with diet or oral medications. If you were diagnosed with late onset diabetes (after the age of 50) you very well could qualify for affordable “above average” rates. So, how does diabetes impact life insurance rates? The healthier you are the lower the cost of your life insurance. With diabetes, many factors impact your rates. The more recent the diagnosis the better, in that, over the long term, blood sugar medications harm our bodies. So someone diagnosed at age 65 with late onset diabetes is less of a risk for …

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Only a Few Days Left to Get Obamacare. You Snooze; You Lose

You’re running out of time if you need health insurance and you haven’t already signed up on your state’s health insurance exchange. The last day you can sign up is March 31. If you miss that deadline, you’ll have to wait until this coming autumn’s open enrollment for another chance. Don’t risk having to pay a penalty. Don’t risk financial ruin or health problems because you thought you’d save money by waiting until

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How PCORI’s Research Will Answer the Real World Questions Patients Are Asking

By Joe Selby, MD As a physician, I know the challenge of helping patients determine which health care options might work best for them given their personal situation and preferences. Too often they — and their clinicians — must make choices about preventing, diagnosing and treating diseases and health conditions without adequate information. The Patient-Centered Outcomes

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For Hospitals and Health Systems: Strategies for Doing More with Less

By Joe Flower The conversation has changed. The old conversation: “You cost too much.” “But we have these sunk costs, patients who can’t pay … ” “OK, how about a little less then?” The new conversation: “You cost too much. We will pay half, or a third, of what you are asking. Or we will

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Numbers We’d Rather Be Talking About

By JOHN IRVINE You’ll be hearing a lot about the number six point five million over the next few days. Six point five million – or whatever the exact number turns out to be at the end of the day – being the number of people that the administration say signed up for Obamacare through

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How to Spot Hail Damage on Your Home

Depending on where you live, hail can be either a sporadic, mildly irritating event or a potentially devastating, destructive threat. According to the National Weather Service, hailstones fall to earth from 30,000 feet, reaching up to 120 mph before they hit people, animals, vegetation, vehicles and structures. These storms cause $1 billion in damages to crops and property each year, the agency says. The area where Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming meet is known as “hail alley.” Nebraska, Colorado, and Wyoming usually have the most hailstorms, according to the National Severe Storms Laboratory. The area where these three states meet is known as “hail alley,” and it averages seven to nine hail days each year. But hailstorms can happen anywhere, and even small hailstorms can shatter windows, smash …

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A Tax Deduction for Health Insurance and Medical Care

Don’t miss out on possible tax deductions when you file your income taxes this year. ; These two articles will help. “Is Health Insurance Tax Deductible?” “How To Write Off Medical Expenses as a Tax Deduction.” ; Image © Art Glazer/Getty Images

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What Makes a Good Doctor? And Can We Measure It?

By Ashish Jha, MD I recently spoke to a quality measures development organization and it got me thinking — what makes a good doctor, and how do we measure it? In thinking about this, I reflected on how far we have come on quality measurement. A decade or so ago, many physicians didn’t think the

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Meet Propeller Health: Digital Health’s Poster Child for Invalid Savings Reporting

By AL LEWIS and VIK KHANNA We’ve seen shorter abstracts, and we’ve seen abstracts with more curious findings, but we’ve never seen a shorter abstract with more curious findings than this one, done by Dignity Health and Dr. Rajan Merchant, and financed by the California Healthcare Foundation, evaluating a gadget made by Propeller Health. The

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COBRA Vs Obamacareï¿½Making the Choice

Losing your job-based health insurance? Losing your health insurance because of divorce or death of your spouse? Aging off of your parent’s job-based plan? You’re probably trying to decide if it’s better to use COBRA to continue your current coverage or to buy a new health plan on your state’s health insurance exchange. See how those choices stack up so you can make an informed decision. Check out “COBRA Vs Obamacare–Which Is Better?” Image © Alex-Bowie/Getty Images

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Only 10 Days Left to Get Obamacare. You Snooze; You Lose

You’re running out of time if you need health insurance and you haven’t already signed up on your state’s health insurance exchange. The last day you can sign up is March 31. If you miss that deadline, you’ll have to wait until this coming autumn’s open enrollment for another chance. Don’t risk having to pay a penalty. Don’t risk financial ruin or health problems because you thought you’d save money by waiting until you got sick to buy health insurance. That doesn’t work. Get a move-on and get signed up now. Image © Burke-Triolo Productions/Getty Images

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TED2014: Grandmother Avatar with TB Beckons Medical Education Her Way

By Michael Painter, MD Why should I be in the same room with these people? That’s one of the many smart questions participants posed at a Stanford Medical School meeting I attended last weekend. If I had been daydreaming (I’d never do that), I might have thought the question was for me. You see, the

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From mail room to regional vice president

By David Smith, guest blogger, corporate communications GEICO was a magnet for a young George Rogers. The eager Bethesda, Md., native grew up just two miles from the corporate office, and he began sorting mail and hustling policy files as a part-time associate in 1969, while he was still in high school. Rogers later moved into a full-time claims examiner job after starting college and was quick to embrace the company’s culture and its great potential. “I grew up wanting to be an oceanographer, but I realized early on that I was with a great company and loved the people I worked with.” He never turned down an opportunity to learn, grow and share his experience. From regional liability director to assistant vice president for …

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Is Medicine a Big Data Problem?

By Ted Driscoll Human beings are big data. We aren’t just 175 pounds of meat and bone. We aren’t just piles of hydrogen and carbon and oxygen. What makes us all different is how it’s all organized and that is information. We can no longer treat people based on simple numbers like weight, pulse, blood

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