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Financial Planning April 1, 2006 Joan Warner	A Prescription for Planners As clients assume a growing burden for healthcare costs, financial advisers will have to figure this expense into financial plans -- building more uncertainty and competing goals into the mix.
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Nursing Management April 2011 Deborah E. Trautman	Healthcare Reform: 1 Year Later A year after the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed into law, the nation remains divided.
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