October 2006 Archives

Just when you think you've heard it all, now identity thieves have come up with a way to use jury duty to steal from you. How?

Here's a creative way to advertise yourself, your company, your website, your upcoming party, or about a dozen other special events in your life:

Brand new in the PhotoStamps lineup are:
officially licensed NFL teams for football fans!
collegiate teams for the diehard college sports fan!
even the ability to put your business logo on U.S. postage stamps!

These are in addition to the original postage stamps offered by PhotoStamps -- where you put your own photograph, or a photo of your pet, your kids, your wedding (...you get the idea) on U.S. postage stamps.

You know you need to save. Retirement, college, and emergencies. Vacations, holidays, or a house. The list is endless.

But at the end of the month, you just never seem to have anything left to save.

One way to bump up what you have left at the end of the month is to control your inner shopaholic, and put an end to impulse spending once and for all.

Awhile ago, I had an unpleasant experience regarding HMO's and dental care.

As part of my dental care plan with an HMO (which was a PRE-PAID service plan), I had paid for over one year of dental care which I was ultimately not permitted to use.

Suffice it to say that I have found another (great) dentist and I no longer utilize the services of an HMO. Still, the bigger problem remains. It goes far beyond my little incident with one specific dentist and one specific HMO.

It's more about the politics of the health care industry, as a whole. And how "dues-paying" patients are getting the raw end of the deal each and every day.

Questioning The Health Care Industry
The REAL issue is the manner in which the healthcare industry manages itself.

Specifically, the major and minor injustices which take place within the health care industry on a daily basis are what continue to bother me.

Which is why I was thrilled when I happened upon a movie called "Damaged Care" on the Lifetime Channel the other day. It was about this exact topic!...