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			<title>Colorado Businesses May be Forced to Pay Increased Premium Rates</title>
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			<description>Can employers be forced to offer &lt;a href=http://employeebenefits.about.com/od/employeeinsurance/a/HealthInsurance.htm&gt;health insurance&lt;/a&gt; to their employees? The answer seems to be yes. Last year, a law mandating health coverage for all took effect in &lt;a href=http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2008/09/22/gvsb0922.htm&gt;Massachusetts&lt;/a&gt;, ...&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&amp;#038;zu=http://employeebenefits.about.com/b/2008/09/14/colorado-businesses-may-be-forced-to-pay-increased-premium-rates.htm&quot;&gt;Read Full Post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Health Coverage for Most</title>
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			<description>When thinking about what type of benefits are important, it starts to become obvious that &lt;a href=http://employeebenefits.about.com/od/employeeinsurance/a/HealthInsurance.htm&gt;health insurance coverage&lt;/a&gt; is one of the top employee benefits to offer. According to a ...&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&amp;#038;zu=http://employeebenefits.about.com/b/2008/09/11/health-coverage-for-most.htm&quot;&gt;Read Full Post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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			<title>Retirement Account Penalties After Age 70</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Keeping Up with Compensation</title>
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			<description>While employee benefits are truly appreciated by employees, sometimes it really does come down to compensation. With a sinking American economy, it can be tempting to cut raises for the ...&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&amp;#038;zu=http://employeebenefits.about.com/b/2008/08/22/keeping-up-with-compensation.htm&quot;&gt;Read Full Post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Pay What You Weigh</title>
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			<description>Well, it's not exactly pay what you weigh, but officials in &lt;a href=&quot;http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&amp;#038;zu=http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hXBXqncE2rt1dtB6Ew6xui78bP1QD92N1NNO0&quot;&gt;Alabama&lt;/a&gt; are cracking down on obesity by adding a sort of penalty on &lt;a href=&quot;http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&amp;#038;zu=http://employeebenefits.about.com/od/employeeinsurance/a/HealthInsurance.htm&quot;&gt;health insurance&lt;/a&gt;. This comes in response ...&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&amp;#038;zu=http://employeebenefits.about.com/b/2008/08/20/pay-what-you-weigh.htm&quot;&gt;Read Full Post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Health Care Costs Up 10% for 2009</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Rising Employee Benefit Costs Hitting Governments</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:49:46 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Disability and Fraud</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Giving Employees Flex Time Can Help the Bottom Line</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Who Pays Disability?</title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
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