<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c6a6faef-2a3c-4252-b7c9-589d1d1f0ffb/6275B209-985A-4BDE-B60F-5720C18CE84B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/business/smallbusiness/27sbiz.html?em&ex=1206763200&en=62ccf6c31bfa7928&ei=5087%0A" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/business/smallbusiness/27sbiz.html?em&ex=1206763200&en=62ccf6c31bfa7928&ei=5087%0A" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/business/smallbusiness/27sbiz.html?em&ex=1206763200&en=62ccf6c31bfa7928&ei=5087%0A"><NYT_HEADLINE _moz-userdefined="" type=" " version="1.0"> Finding Health Insurance if You Are Self-Employed </NYT_HEADLINE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/business/smallbusiness/27sbiz.html?em&ex=1206763200&en=62ccf6c31bfa7928&ei=5087%0A"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/A0C67271-6771-46C9-BAC3-AB04A18A5F31" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/business/smallbusiness/27sbiz.html?em&ex=1206763200&en=62ccf6c31bfa7928&ei=5087%0A"><P>If there is one thing that separates the self-employed from those employed by others, it is their preoccupation with <A title="Recent and archival health news about health insurance and managed care." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/health_insurance_and_managed_care/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier">health insurance</A>. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/business/smallbusiness/27sbiz.html?em&ex=1206763200&en=62ccf6c31bfa7928&ei=5087%0A"><P>I was reminded of this on Feb. 14, when I wrote a post on the <A title="Shifting Careers blog" href="http://shiftingcareers.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/14/fridays-links-health-insurance-for-the-self-employed/">Shifting Careers blog</A> asking small-business owners and would-be entrepreneurs what they were doing about health insurance. Within hours, scores of people posted comments about their own experiences and, if they had managed to find good resources, shared those. I have been reading e-mail messages and trying to make sense of the subject ever since. In short, it is not pretty out there.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6275B209-985A-4BDE-B60F-5720C18CE84B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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