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NHPR News National Health Partners Announces Plans to Expand Insurance Programs for Health Advantage One

HORSHAM, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--National Health Partners, Inc. (OTCBB: NHPR), a leading provider of unique discount healthcare membership programs, announced today that it plans to launch several new insurance programs that are being designed to work with the Company’s CARExpress healthcare discount program. The Company also announced that it sees sales continuing to grow at a record pace in 2007.

The new programs are being created to combine specific health insurance benefits that complement the benefits of the Company’s CARExpress membership programs by reducing or even eliminating the remaining cost of the discounted service. This new “wrap-around” approach will provide significant advantages to consumers as well as businesses through a new low-cost approach that can reduce monthly insurance expenses by up to 70%. The Company expects to have a portfolio of up to 10 different programs under the Company’s newly created Health Advantage One Program. These programs are expected to be launched in January 2007.

“These new ‘wraparound’ programs provide the best of both worlds for our members because the CARExpress membership cards provides a ‘point of service’ discount and the insurance programs can pay for most, if not all, of the remaining portion of the medical expense,” stated David M. Daniels, President and CEO of National Health Partners. “We have experienced a great deal of success with our CARExpress programs on a stand-alone basis. We believe that we are now poised to take these programs to the next level by combining them with insurance programs under Health Advantage One.”

“Through Health Advantage One, we are responding to what the marketplace has needed for quite some time – an inexpensive solution to a growing healthcare crisis,” continued Mr. Daniels. “We believe that we will be able to offer specific programs that are tailored to the various needs of individuals and groups. Our objective is to offer programs that are priced substantially lower than traditional health insurance programs, but provide coverage that in many cases are better than full coverage insurance. We believe that we can offer these new programs from 50%-70% less than what full coverage insurance policies ordinarily cost.”

Mr. Daniels added, “We have made major strides in building a solid foundation for our future growth. I am pleased to state that we currently have more cash on hand than we have ever had in our history and our memberships and sales are at an all-time high. We continue see more and more opportunities as a result of the good reputation that we have developed.”

National Health Partners, Inc.

National Health Partners, Inc. is a national healthcare savings organization that provides discount healthcare membership programs to uninsured and underinsured people through a national healthcare savings network called “CARExpress.” CARExpress is one of the largest networks of hospitals, doctors, dentists, pharmacists and other healthcare providers in the country and is comprised of over 1,000,000 medical professionals that belong to such PPOs as CareMark and Aetna. The company’s primary target customer group is the 47 million Americans who have no health insurance of any kind. The company’s secondary target customer group includes the 61 million Americans who lack complete health insurance coverage. The company is headquartered in Horsham, Pennsylvania. For more information on the company, please visit its website at www.nationalhealthpartners.com.

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This press release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All statements other than statements of historical fact contained herein, including, without limitation, statements regarding the company’s future financial position, business strategy, budgets, projected revenues and costs, and plans and objectives of management for future operations, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements generally can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “may,” “will,” “expects,” “intends,” “plans,” “projects,” “estimates,” “anticipates,” or “believes” or the negative thereof or any variation thereon or similar terminology or expressions. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from results proposed in such statements. Although the company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can provide no assurance that such expectations will prove to have been correct. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the company’s expectations include, but are not limited to, its ability to fund future growth and implement its business strategy, its ability to develop and expand the market for its CARExpress membership programs, demand for and acceptance of its CARExpress membership programs, its dependence on a limited number of preferred provider organizations and other provider networks for healthcare providers, as well as those factors set forth in the company’s Annual Report on Form 10-KSB and its other filings and submissions with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. Except as required by law, the company assumes no obligation to update or revise any of the information contained in this press release.