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A Memo to Insurance Producers
Get Ready to Produce More in 2009
by John Graham

Even though the economy is in serious trouble, nothing has changed. You still need to sell insurance. Whether it's life, health or property and casualty, one task remains: closing sales.

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- Total Compensation Statements
- VUL
pointerIN CALIFORNIA
- Many Californians Miss Out on Dental Care
- Life Agent Charged With Identity Theft
- Life Agent Charged With Grand Theft
- Medical Eligibility Rules Deemed Unconstitutional
- California Benefit Trends
- Medicare Document Translated

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pointerINDUSTRY NEWS
- Genworth Cuts 1,000 Jobs
pointer HEALTHCARE
- Health Plans are Reducing Treatment Barriers  
- People Want Health Reform In the First Term
- Nurses Blast Industry Proposal and Call For Government Run System
- Consumers End up Paying for Medicare and Medicaid Underpayments
- E-Prescribing Can Cut Costs
- Healthcare Costs Threaten America's Fiscal Future

insurance surveys
2008 Dental Survey
Welcome to Part III of California Broker’s 2008 Dental Survey.
19. If covered, explain the process that allows the general dentist to refer to the specialist.
20. Are any of your specialists board eligible/certified?
21. How do you fund your specialty care?
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2008 Term Survey
—An Overview of the State's Term Insurance Market
1. What percentage of the cases you underwrote last year were issued at your top two preferred non-smoker classes?
2. What percentage of the cases you underwrote last year were issued at your top two standard nonsmoker classes?
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2008 HSA Survey—HSAs role in
the California Marketplace

1. What are the primary services you offer as part of your HSA product?
2. Do you offer an HSA-qualifying high deductible health insurance plan?
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2008 HMO Survey—HMO Services and Pratices Statewide.
1. Do you guarantee a time limit on getting referral/treatment routine, urgent, emergency? If not, how many days does it take?
2. Do you have any conditions/diagnoses/symptoms that are referred automatically?
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2008 PPO Survey—PPOs in California answer direct questions about their plans.
1. Is an approval procedure required for getting a specialist referral or a diagnostic test or treatment in-network or out-of-network?
2. Are there any restrictions on getting second opinions from an in-network provider or an out-of-network provider?
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2008 directory
Carriers/ Providers
Profiles & Association Listings
•  Accupuncture
•  Broker/Dealers
•  Chiropractic
•  Dental
General Agents
Profiles &
Product Sources

•  GA Listings
•  Annuities
•  Universal Life
•  Whole Life

In this issue


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How HSAs Can Unshackle Clients from High Health Insurance Costs

Also Inside:
Dental • Worksite Marketing
Warning About 412 & 419 Plans Sales & Marketing
PPOs • HSAs • Annuities
Health Care Under Obama

editor's column
kate kinkate editor It’s The Story
By Kate Kinkade, CLU, ChFC


One of our news features this month tells readers of a shift in product mix in life insurance in 2009. This could be credited to the economy, or the change in mortality tables, or the change in reserve requirements.
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