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Money: Health care costs, insurance
Consumers/clients
Advisers
	Armes, David, "Long-Term Approaches to Managing Retirement Healthcare Costs", Journal of Financial Planning, December 2009 (Vol. 22, No. 12)
		Armes explains how advisers can evaluate the various options by estimating the price of excellent insurance, and identifying which coverage options (especially catastrophic protection) are important to a given client.
Industry / vendors / associations
	Health Care Cost Summit: Slowing the Growth of Health Costs — How to Bend the Cost Curve
		AHIP, March 9, 2011, Free http://www.ahipresearch.org/pdfs/March2011CostSummit.pdf This report summarizes the summarizes the conversation that took place at this conference, which emphasized the need for system-wide solutions and the need to focus on care for chronic illnesses
	"Features and Associated Costs of Fee-for-Service Medical Plans", Program Perspectives, October 2010 (Vol.2, No. 5)
		http://www.bls.gov/opub/perspectives/program_perspectives_vol2_issue5.pdf, Free U.S. data on fee for service medical plans.
Other / general / not specified
	King, Sonya E., All About Medicare 2010: Hospital Insurance, Medical Insurance, Prescription Drug Insurance, Medigap, Medicaid
		National Underwriter, 2010 http://www.amazon.com/All-About-Medicare-2010-Prescription/dp/087218997X/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1279909077&sr=1-5 An up-to-date reference for professionals (and useful for consumers, too).