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Open Enrollment Time: What You Need to Know About Your Health Insurance Plan Choices

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It's a popular time of year for open enrollment--when companies allow you to pick your insurance plan and other benefits. Andrew Rubin, Vice President for Medical Center Clinical Affairs and Affiliates NYU Langone Medical Center, estimates that 25 percent of people don't even open their benefits book and just go with the default plan. But this year it's more important than ever to analyze your options. Here are a few things to know:

Drowning with the Polar Bear: 3 issues that will make or break us in the 2010's

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As we round the corner into a new decade, how will we look back on this first decade of the 2000’s? I think it will be as monumental as the 1960’s or the 1940’s. With 9/11, two wars, and the election of an African-American president, some pretty significant stuff took place over the past 10…

Why are health insurance companies discriminating against sexual assault survivors?

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I've heard it a thousand times: Sexism no longer exists in this country.

As a college instructor, I heard it. Talking with other moms at playgroup, I've heard it. At conferences and in meetings and on television and during radio talk shows, I've heard it. It pains me to type the words. Still, I know that many of you will gasp or laugh to read that there are people who believe women no longer face discrimination. I also know that many of you will nod your head in agreement.

Is it Fair to Call a C-Section Rape?

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Rachael Larimore was raped years ago and survived. More recently, she has given birth three times, all of them via c-sections. Considering her history and experiences, she’s unsympathetic toward Arizona mom Joy Szabo and others who equate forced c-sections with rape. She’s got a point, which she makes in the post, “Childbirth is Not Burger King. You Can’t Always Have it Your Way,” at Double X. But in arguing that Szabo’s use of “rape” is hurting rape victims, she errs in the same way she’s accusing Szabo of erring: that is, she makes assumptions about the trauma of other people’s experiences and diminishes that trauma in the process.