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When you’re jetting home for the holidays, traveling to your new university or heading off on vacation, the last thing you need is jet lag. Arm yourself with travel insurance and advice on how to lessen the impact of jet lag on your next trip.

Jet lag makes you tired, disorientated, dehydrated and unmotivated – not the best start to a college term or vacation. How can you beat it? Start out rested – make sure you have a good amount of sleep and rest before you start to travel. Sleep – if you can sleep on the plane, do so. Take ear plugs, eye mask and a travel pillow.

Drink lots of water and avoid too much alcohol, caffeine and sugary drinks. Try to get up and walk around the plane, and do some foot and leg exercises, to help prepare your body for being back on land.

When you arrive, get as much natural light as you can before bedtime. Try to

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To help celebrate the one-year anniversary of health care reform, the White House has issued information regarding its youth health initiative known as “Better Benefits, Better Health.” The initiative focuses on the aspect of health reform allowing young adults to remain on parents’ policies and is asking these adult children to learn more about health insurance opportunities available to them.

Health Care Reform Reaches 1-Year Anniversary

After health care reform was signed into law on March 23, 2010, a number of adjustments to health insurance were set to take effect. One was allowing young adults to remain on their parents’ policies until the age of 26, instead of 19 as in the past, which took effect on Sept. 23, 201

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It is important that you go into using insurance leads with realistic expectations. Some leads will turn out to be better than others, and depending on how you speak to your customers, you will have varying degrees of success.

Some things you should be aware of:

Ask for pertinent information. Sometimes a potential client might enter the wrong phone number or some incorrect data that affects the quote. If a client has entered fake information, you can get a refund for those leads. But a typo or a slight mistake may lead to confusion if you don’t ask the client some informational questions upfront.

Don’t give a quote in a voicemail or email before talking to them.

If you offer a quote right away, you do two things that could create problems for you down the road.

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A recent health insurance premium hike request has been withdrawn by Blue Shield of California, citing a need to keep coverage affordable for its members. The withdrawal will keep members from paying an average of 6.5 percent more to maintain their coverage.

Plan Won’t Raise Rates During Tough Economic Times

A statement released on Thursday by Blue Shield of California’s president Bruce Bodaken said that since the company is not-for-profit, its mission is to always provide Californians with access to “quality health care at an affordable price.”

He went on to say the company’s agreement to not ask for the premium increase would help make coverage more affordable for its 340,000 members during tough economic times. “It’s a financial risk for us, but a risk that’s worth taking,” he said.

The proposed increase would have been the plan’s third in less than a year. While the premium h

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