Yamileth Medina

Sell Your Home with Staging Techniques

Marketing plays a key role when selling a product, especially when that product is as expensive as a new house. It is important to showcase the best elements of your house when showing it to potential buyers. Staging is the term for preparing a property ... Read >

Is Your Small Business Eligible For Health Insurance Tax Credit?

With tax credits included in the healthcare reform law, the Obama administration is attempting to kill two political birds with one stone. First, the credits become effective during the current tax year, serving as one of the few immediate benefits that c... Read >

Health Insurance Companies Under Closer Scrutiny

The health insurance industry has been at the center of the firestorm over raising rates. Practices such as rescission (canceling a policy) in the absence of fraud have been heavily criticized. The Obama administration's healthcare reform law gives the... Read >

Affordable Health Insurance Struggles For Employees Without Reform?

For months, healthcare reform was considered an inevitability. The Republicans regaining their ability to filibuster legislation in Congress has changed all that. Now, Democrats and others must consider what will happen if their bills are removed from lif... Read >

Unions Back Out of Affordable Health Insurance Reform Tax

Labor unions have been some of the strongest supporters of healthcare reform. Organized labor played a key role in Barack Obama's presidential campaign and has moved with him on one of his administration's top domestic policy priorities. During earlier st... Read >

Obesity Makes Individual Health Insurance Harder To Find

First Lady Michelle Obama has begun her fight against childhood obesity. In a nation where nearly one-third of Americans are overweight and another one-third are obese, it is important to nip the obesity epidemic in the bud. After all, it is easier to pre... Read >

A World Without Healthcare Reform: Rising Health Insurance Rates?

Supporters of healthcare reform are pushing for action to take place as soon as possible. Despite its political risk and an increasingly skeptical public, President Barack Obama has continued to say that he won't give up on passing comprehensive medical i... Read >

Do Republicans Have A Healthcare Reform Solution?

Last week, President Obama stood in front of Republicans in Congress and effectively dared them to propose superior healthcare reform policy. After several bruising losses in elections, Democrats have striven to portray Republicans as the "Party of No", a... Read >

Health Insurance Spending To Soar Over Next Decade

The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of a nation is a key measure of its economy. For decades, health care has become increasingly expensive--while simultaneously becoming a larger percentage of the U.S. GDP. The rise in health care spending, including that o... Read >

Small Businesses Should Band Together For Cheap Group Health Insurance

Health insurance rates are more expensive than ever, and costs are set to continue rising. A population being hit especially hard is small business owners. They do not have the leverage that large corporations or government agencies use to negotiate with ... Read >

What Will Drug Companies Do Without Medical Insurance Reform?

Major drug companies are probably reminiscing about the days when Democratic-led healthcare reform appeared inevitable. They didn't escape that legislation scot-free; it forced pharmaceutical firms to pay $8 billion worth of fees and discounts to health i... Read >

Healthcare Reform Battle Royale

Right before the Super Bowl kickoff, President Obama fired his latest salvo in his fight for health insurance reform. He announced that his administration was planning a bipartisan debate at the White House. The half-day-long discussion on healthcare refo... Read >

How John Edwards Ruined Healthcare Reform

Disgraced former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards has been in the news quite a bit lately. First, he admitted paternity of his mistress' child; that revelation was followed by the publication of a tell-all book by former aide Andrew Young th... Read >

Will Healthcare Reform Sneak In Through Budget?

President Barack Obama recently released his proposed budget for the 2011 fiscal year. As expected after his State of the Union speech, it includes increases in funding for job creation. However, the soaring budget deficit has become a significant concern... Read >

Cognitive Dissonance and Health Insurance Reform

The national controversy swirling around healthcare reform has become one of the main topics of conversation during President Obama's first year in office. He campaigned on the issue, and made it the centerpiece of his domestic policy. Many political anal... Read >