If history is any guide, a strong national insurance exchange program, after it overcomes early implementation challenges and gathers momentum, could become a nearly permanent fixture in federal health policy.

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Unless, as some predict, national health care policy changes create permanent, new pressure on sector profits.

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Depending on your age and health status, the premiums for a permanent policy can be five, ten or even twenty times that of a term policy with an identical death benefit.

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