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  Poll Results: Over Two-Thirds Say They Have Fought Insurance Over Coverage Or Bills

  by Vira Mamchur Schwartz Lifestyle

  Is there anything more convoluted (but necessary) than medical insurance? It can be an administrative nightmare dealing with approvals, costs, and more forms than you ever imagined. But that coverage can make it so that your life — or that of someone you love — can be saved without (hopefully) bankrupting your family. Indeed, medical costs remain the number one cause of bankruptcy in ...

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  How Much Will Your Insurance Cover In A Medical Emergency?

  by Vira Mamchur Schwartz Lifestyle

  Would your insurance cover 24-hour nursing care for you or a loved one released from the hospital and home with special medical needs? Many policies do, but only for a certain number of days a year.Forty hours of in-home nursing care can cost anywhere from $3,000 to $5,000 (or more) a month, depending where you live in the United States. And that 40 hours still leaves 128 hours a week — ...

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  Pregnancy, COVID And Prematurity: Much Still Unknown

  by Vira Mamchur Schwartz Lifestyle

  While there are medical conditions that can lead to premature birth, the reasons for it often remain a mystery. One out of 10 births in the United States involves a baby born before 37 weeks—and, according to the World Health Organization, prematurity and its complications are the leading cause of death in children under five.You’d think that the stress of quarantine and fear of ...

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  Top Of Mind Speaks with Preemie Father About His Memoir and Redefining Success

  by Vira Mamchur Schwartz Lifestyle

  Ted Yang had his life all planned out—and it was a good plan. The son of Chinese immigrants, he graduated from MIT at 21 with a Master’s, worked successfully at the world’s largest hedge fund, married the love of his life, moved to the suburbs and started a family. Then, like most of us, Yang learned that life almost never goes exactly how you planned. He and his wife Christine soon ...

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  For John Legend, Prince Harry, And Every Other Father Who Has Lost A Child

  by Daily Voice Lifestyle

  Is this the year that fathers are finally allowed to be vulnerable? When faced with something as horrific as losing a child, the father is often cast as the strong and silent one, there to support his partner through her grief. Of course it's not that fathers don't have similar emotions, but that they aren't allowed to show them. And why is that? Perhaps, one reason, is that when dads ...

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  Listen to A Father’s Story Of Life, Love And Loss On Public Radio

  by Vira Mamchur Schwartz Lifestyle

  Prematurity occurs in just about 1 out of 10 births in the United States. And while science has let parents test for more and more genetic abnormalities and conditions, there’s still no test to predict if a child will be born prematurely. Prematurity and the potential complications it can cause was but one of the topics discussed on Public Radio’s The Morning Show out of Kenosha, ...

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  How Far Would You Go For Your Daughter To Breathe?

  by Vira Mamchur Schwartz Lifestyle

  Breathing. It’s so automatic we’re usually not even aware of it. But what if your body couldn’t take a life-giving breath on its own? In Table for Five: A Father’s Story of Life, Love and Loss, Ted Yang—philanthropist and serial entrepreneur—tells of years spent watching a machine breathe for his daughter, what it took to see her breathe on her own and how it changed him personally and ...