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Looking for health insurance information, options and regulations in your state? The following website offers all of that and more. Check out this valuable resource at: www.healthinsuranceinfo.net. The site is sponsored by the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute.

The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation hosts a wealth of knowledge on health insurance and healthcare—policy summaries, state-level data, research and tutorials, news summaries, world public health, and more. You will not be disappointed in this site: http://www.kff.org.

For an index of research articles related to health literacy (and cultural competence), go to the Research Activities section of AHRQ's Health Literacy and Cultural Competence Browse page at: http://www.ahrq.gov/browse/hlitra.htm. This website is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.

We recommend “Get a Good Deal on Your Health Insurance Without Getting Ripped Off” by Jonathan Pletzke. The book is an excellent educational resource by a man who took a lot of time to figure out the system and decided to write about it to help others. You can order this book, learn more about the author, and access his blog at: http://www.besthealthinsurancebook.com/.