‘An Arm and a Leg’: For Your Subsequent Well being Insurance coverage Battle, an Train in Monetary Self-Protection

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A listener requested: ‘How do I stay cool when calling insurance coverage firms?” So we known as veteran self-defense instructor Lauren Taylor for recommendation. She leads Defend Your self, a company that works to empower folks in opposition to violence and abuse. 

As Taylor teaches it, self-defense includes much more than hitting and kicking. It’s about standing up for your self in all types of inauspicious conditions. Hanging that posture contains utilizing your phrases, and we requested Taylor to speak us by way of her prime methods. This yr, she used them in her personal medical health insurance combat.

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