Archive for the ‘Healthcare’ Category
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
At one point, the buzzword was “viatical settlements,” a practice of selling one’s active life insurance policy to a company that would pay the insured the estimated present value of the death benefit so uninsured healthcare costs and related expenses could be paid. Such settlements grew in popularity during the ...
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Last year, new provisions went into effect on Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) that not only give individuals a better nest egg for serious health situations, but a nest egg that can serve them in other ways as well.
Now that the rules allow people to contribute more than their deductible, ...
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Getting surgery overseas used to be the territory of the rich and secretive – the heiress running outside the country for a little plastic surgery and some R&R. But today, the rising number of underinsured Americans (over 61 million at last count) in the United States have made overseas healthcare ...
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2006
President Bush signed into law in February the Deficit Reduction Act, otherwise known as the fiscal year 2006 budget reconciliation bill. That law, which contained more than $39 billion in cuts, including $6.4 billion from Medicare and $4.8 billion from Medicaid, has plenty of changes in store for seniors.
Under the ...
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Friday, January 20th, 2006
Of all the changes that come in retirement, few are likely to give you more concern than dealing with money. Your concern is, of course, understandable and widely shared because so much of what will happen is unpredictable. That’s especially true of how long and how well you may live—whether ...
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