Contents

Features

Don't Lose Sight of the Personal Touch

A New Direction for a Changing LTCI Market

A Q&A with NAHU's New President

How the Presidential Candidates Stack up Against NAHU's Positions on the Issues

A Look at Health Care Systems Around the World: Germany

Preventing Chronic Disease: The New Health Care Debate

The Future of Health Care

Medicare's "Alphabet Soup"

Shortcuts to Success in the Dental and Vision Market

Columns

This Month's Experts

Up Front

Senate Finance Committee Health Reform Summit Testimony

Bulletin Board—News from NAHU

Noteworthy

Effortless Selling

The Agency Management Series, Part 5

Sales Autopsy

Please Direct Questions to My Purse

Letter to the Editor

The RHU/REBC Reading Room

The Role of Social Security and Other Sources of Disability Income in Designing a Plan of Individual Disability Income Insurance

Worksite Marketing

Bring New Life to Your Agency

Industry Innovations

The Web Gorilla

Creating a Paperless Office

Stock Watch

People on the Move

Out of the Office

The Last Laugh

Etcetera

Where in the World is HIU?

Carl Gotts, Florence, Italy

Kathy Bailey near the Rhine Falls in Switzerland and outside Scholss Bruchsal

Richard Shultz, Zion National Park in Utah

Rhonda Bartholomew, David Wilcox and Cricket Stirling, National Convention in San Diego.

Delvin Stahl, Prague, Prague Castle

Eden Ripingill and Carolynne Muldoon, Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego

Harry Witsen in Tuscany, Italy

Larry Feldman and his wife, Nancy, F1 Monaco Grand Prix, in Roland Garros Stadium for the French Open and on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival

Teri and Tony Gutierrez, Rieslingfest in Kiedrich, Germany

Mike McLaughlin and his brother, Pat, Vancouver BC, Canada

Marketplace

Insurance Events

Advertiser Index

Health Insurance Underwriter - August 2008 Index