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Seniors get new health options
Detroit Free Press, November 9th, 2009Seniors looking to buy supplemental Medicare policies may have to do more work to learn about them. They often aren't widely advertised by leading insurers. But several companies new to the business hope Read More
Big Jump Seen In Health Costs For Employees
The Wall Street Journal, October 14th, 2009As companies begin unveiling their workplace benefits for next year, many employees are learning they will have to dig even deeper into their pockets for health coverage. Such price increases have become Read More
Medicare Advantage at a disadvantage in health debate
Market Watch, October 8th, 2009Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus promises that the huge health-care reform bill his committee will vote on next week will protect Medicare benefits for seniors. But not everyone agrees, and a fight is brewing Read More
How To Beat Insurers At The Annuity Game
Forbes, August 26th, 2009Many variable annuity skeptics are taking a second look at these complex insurance-investment hybrids that hold your money in a mutual fund look-alike, have a life insurance death benefit and offer income-for-life guarantees. Read More
House Health Plan Outlines Higher Taxes on Rich
The New York Times, July 14th, 2009House Democratic leaders took a big step toward guaranteeing health insurance for most Americans on Tuesday as they unveiled a bill that detailed how they would expand coverage, slow the growth of Medicare, raise taxes Read More
When an insurance company denies long-term-care benefits, there's another way to get its attention
Dallas Star-Telegram, July 10th, 2009Nancy Morrow was angry that her parents paid tens of thousands of dollars in long-term-care insurance premiums, but when her parents needed care, CNA Insurance Companies refused to pay.The family hired a senior advocate Read More
Retirement Plans From Hell
Insurance News Net, June 30th, 2009Early this year the woman overseeing the 401(k) plan for a rural Oregon company gathered her 25 colleagues together to hold an election. At stake: whether to continue paying AIG an annual 1.25% of assets to manage Read More
Health Care Costs During Retirement
The National Center for Policy Analysis, May 27th, 2009Many people assume Medicare will cover most of their health care costs when they retire, and that Medicaid, the health care program for the poor, will cover them if they need nursing home care.  Read More
A Moderate Plan for Health Care
The New York Times, May 11th, 2009One of the most contentious issues in the Congressional debate over health care reform is over whether to create a new public plan to compete with private insurers. Senator Charles Schumer of New York is making strenuous Read More
Let Insurers Compete
The New York Times, May 11th, 2009Re “Schumer Points to a Middle Ground on Government-Run Health Insurance” (news article, May 5): Republican “moderates” who oppose the public option in President Obama’s health care reform plan are concerned that insurance Read More
Doctors Are Opting Out of Medicare
The New York Times - April 1, 2009 EARLY this year, Barbara Plumb, a freelance editor and writer in New York who is on Medicare, received a disturbing letter. Her gynecologist informed her that she was opting out of Medicare. When Ms. Plumb asked her Read More
Walgreens giving free care to jobless and uninsured
Yahoo News - March 31, 2009 Drugstore operator Walgreens will offer free clinic visits to the unemployed and uninsured for the rest of the year, providing tests and routine treatment for minor ailments through its walk-in clinics — though patients will Read More
AARP’s Stealth Fees Often Sting Seniors With Costlier Insurance
Bloomberg - December 4, 2008 Arthur Laupus joined AARP because he thought the nonprofit senior-citizen-advocacy group would make his retirement years easier. He signed up for an auto insurance policy endorsed by AARP, believing the advertising that said Read More
UnitedHealth to Insure the Right to Insurance
The New York Times - December 2, 2008 For these economically uncertain times, the UnitedHealth Group has a “first of its kind” product: the right to buy an individual health policy at some point in the future even if you become sick. Called UnitedHealth Read More
Life Insurers Facing Cuts in Ratings
The New York Times Life insurance companies, hobbled by real estate investments and committed to paying some costly retirement contracts, face more cuts in their credit ratings before the year is up and have little choice but to seek capital in unforgiving Read More
 
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