Long Term Care: Why you should care about it.
Americans are living longer. That sounds good, and there’s no question that it’s better than the alternative ... about. So what can you do? One possibility is to take out Long Term Care insurance. To quote Professor Kotlikoff again, "Yes ... Long Term Care. While a lot has been said about the high cost of health care, at least [more...]
Date: 2009-01-30 21:01:25
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Health care summit
President Obama opens the White House Forum on Health Reform today: “The same soaring costs that are straining families’ budgets are sinking our businesses and eating up our government’s budget, too. Too many small businesses can’t insure their employees. Major American corporations are struggling to compete with their foreign counterparts [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 20:39:03
Mark Weisbrot: Health Care Reform Is Needed Now More than Ever
With the U.S. economy's downward spiral still accelerating and the federal government looking at its largest budget deficits since World War II, ... stimulus. In included $87 billion for Medicaid payments to the state governments, $25 billion towards helping unemployed workers extend their employment-based health insurance after being laid off, and $19 [more...]
Date: 2009-03-02 21:53:49
Debating Health-Care
Sally Pipes: Another common argument for more government insurance is that the uninsured shift costs to private payers when they avail ... ("Key Issues in Analyzing Major Health Insurance Proposals, " December 2008) is clear on one issue ... from the government programs Medicare and Medicaid, which reimburse providers at rates roughly 20 [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 12:34:05
Jobless rate bolts to 8.1 pct., 651,000 jobs lost
Counties to get $173 million in stimulus money SEC was spread too thin States’ budget woes will outlast the recession Miller: ... up war on Medicaid abuse Blog Posts Want Huntington? Talk to A.J. White world Nassau sales ... payments Too many neglect long term care insurance Blog posts New insurer ready to cover LI [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 14:36:48
National Security Challenges For Obama Administration
By Michael P. Noonan PANEL 1: How Will We Fight? Colonel T.X. Hammes, USMC (ret.), author of The Sling and the Stone , opened by noting that the U.S. has no national strategy, but rather a series of goals with no ways or means assigned to them. He argued that the Department of Defense must return to threat-based analysis after the past decade of [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 13:00:17
Book Review - High Wire
Back from my one week hiatus, this week I’m reviewing the book High Wire - The precarious financial lives of American Families by Peter Gosselin ... . It was to cover pensions, health care coverage, disability, life insurance, severance pay ... was finally applied as intended, but only in retirement purposes. For other benefits like life insurance [more...]
Date: 2009-02-27 23:01:34
Pet Health Care Insurance
With the spiraling costs of vet bills it isn’t a surprise that more people are opting to take out one of the pet health care insurance plans to ... t have insurance in force a routine operation can often prove to be a very costly endeavor. There are various levels of cover to choose with pet insurance so be certain that adequate protection is in place [more...]
Date: 2009-03-07 04:34:21
Amartya Sen, on the Recession, Adam Smith, Keynes, and Kerala
I was recently talking to a financial consultant visiting from India about the state of the Indian economy (she recently married my cousin; congrats ... of the possible role that reforming health care might play in government-supported economic recovery programs, Sen makes an interesting side-note about health care in Kerala as compared to China [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 15:43:28
5 Ways To Prepare For a Layoff
As unemployment numbers continue to rise, many employees are stressed about whether they’ll have a job next week or not ... funds, evaluating how to replace lost benefits, and making a game plan for the job search. Finding ... encourage them to have at least 12 months of savings in cash. Unfortunately many [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 12:30:09
Kennedy’s Health Could have Key Role in Healthcare Reform Passage.
During yesterday’s trip to Capitol Hill with ECFC, I had the chance to meet with staffers representing one Democratic and two Republican lawmakers. We also heard from Sen. Ted Kennedy’s chief healthcare policy advisor, former CMS director, Tom ... healthcare system is not working and needs to be fixed. They also agreed that this is the best chance [more...]
Date: 2009-03-07 01:14:34
Terrell Halaska and Kristin D. Conklin: Getting at a Real College Cost Driver: Health Care
There are few public policy issues that impact every American, regardless of age, race or socio-economic status. Right now, health care is one of those issues where policy decisions can have a life-altering impact on many Americans. The health care reform debate is finally at the top of the nation's agenda because employers simply cannot [more...]
Date: 2009-02-26 17:25:24
HEALTH REFORM: President Obama Gives Us A "Yes We Can" Moment
President Obama opened his speech on Tuesday evening calling for our nation to take responsibility for its future once again and begin to address our long-term challenges. More specifically, he made clear that we have ignored for too long ... , and crippling American families. Meanwhile, health care cost growth continues to wreak havoc [more...]
Date: 2009-02-25 20:17:00
Traumatic Brain Injury
As Cedric and Wally noted (see their " Belle of the ball " and " THIS JUST IN! MARTHA STEWART, WATCH YOUR BACK! ") ... Stewart is single-payer health insurance. Remember that as you read Kenneth J. Theisen's " Obama ... does not include the cost of maintaining and improving the nation's nuclear stockpile [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 12:42:00
Getting Rich with American Real Estate
by Mark English Owning Private Property has always been a dream of all the “Huddle Masses” that have come to our shores. A place of Your own is not just a home to live in, but can also be a means of production. In 1862 we passed the Homestead Act which gave, FREE of charge, [more...]
Date: 2009-03-07 14:30:56
10 New Higher Education Ideas for a New Congress
(1) Social Insurance for College Costs The families of undergraduates can borrow a minimum of $57,500 in federal Stafford loans. 1 ... not more over the long term, than under current law; suggested in-school interest offset is a benefit ... borrowers and constraining career choices. At no new cost, Congress can limit Stafford loan payments [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 16:00:36
Principled Conservatism
The long-awaited health care summit is today, and dozens of members of Congress and stakeholders are at the White House in the first step to ... Americans have joined the ranks of the uninsured. The cost of health care now causes a bankruptcy ... their homes. And even for folks who are weathering this economic storm, and have health care [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 19:37:00
Health care reform : What we can learn from Costco
By JANE SARASOHN-KAHN The most telling point about health reform in President Obama's budget is that, "Some researchers believe that healthcare costs could be reduced by a stunning 30 percent -- or about $700 billion a year -- without harming quality if we moved as a nation toward the proven and successful practices adopted by the [more...]
Date: 2009-03-02 13:14:42
Jamie Court: Obamacare Principles Steer Clear Of Arnoldcare's Failures
The release of today's federal budget was accompanied by 8 principles that President Obama laid out for the Congress as it takes up health care ... in California. Whereas the Gov started with the premise of mandatory health insurance purchases ... promises of Obama's plan at whitehouse.gov -- "Make Health Insurance Work For People and Businesses [more...]
Date: 2009-02-27 00:41:19
Reforming a health care system that’s too big to fail
American taxpayers already have spent more than $2 trillion bailing out banks and insurance companies. Can we afford to reform health care, too? ... care as we were with banks and insurance companies: Too heavily invested to let it fail, with too much ... insurance in 2007, before the economic meltdown. That number had, by one authoritative estimate, grown [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 03:01:42
The Sphere of Market Capitalism Might Narrow
Sometimes you’re just too close to the problem, and you lose your ability to formulate the conventional response ... . To the user it was simple – punch in the patient account number and get an answer – what treatment ... contact agreement. And now the Obama administration is working hard on healthcare reform – [more...]
Date: 2009-03-07 07:17:26
Innovation + Economics: Keys to Successful Healthcare Reform
By Dr. Albert Waxman Now that the economic stimulus package has been negotiated and signed, healthcare is on deck ... and insurance providers that make up our current healthcare “system” in America. The rate of healthcare ... the shocking contrast in priorities between President Obama’s healthcare plans, which call for billions [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 14:20:53
10 Essential Money Skills for a Bad Economy
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from J.D. Roth, who writes about smart personal finance at Get Rich Slowly . The economy is in a shambles. The stock market’s down, unemployment’s up, and the housing market is still skidding sideways. The people I know are beginning to get nervous [more...]
Date: 2009-02-26 00:25:10
Trials, Tribulations, and Rewards of Insulin Pump Therapy
Two months ago, a good friend of mine went on an insulin pump after living with type 1 diabetes for 20 years. Needless to say, it's a big transition ... to fight tooth and nail with your insurance company. This piece of equipment costs between $5,000 and $6,000, so if your insurance company covers part of the cost (mine covered 90 percent), you're [more...]
Date: 2009-02-27 16:00:00
A Quick Look At Health Care
by Bate Dulin A growing concern of many online business owners is the need for private health insurance ... . Health insurance companies offer a wide range of coverage options, two of these are short and long ... have no health care plans at all, with many of these being the self-employed. You don’t have to fall [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 03:18:08
All About Cheap Whole Life Insurance
by Jack Dentwood There are a number of different people who have and want a life insurance policy, and these people are at all ages ... insurance policy that they can afford in order to take care of everyone and everything ... is and if it is something that you need, as making the wrong choice in life insurance selection can cost [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 12:21:49
What's Been Cut: The Story of the Child Parent Centers
What’s been cut These are the superlatives that come with Chicago's Child Parent Centers. So you might figure they're flourishing as part of the Chicago Public Schools' early childhood programs, right? Not so. Their numbers are dwindling. In the mid-1980s, there were at least 25 CPCs serving more than 1,500 children. By 2006, there were 13 [more...]
Date: 2009-02-26 16:20:04
Morning Briefing for February 27, 2009
FEBRUARY 27, 2009 1. Bobby Jindal and the 75 Miles Meme The Worst Fact-Checking In The World 2 ... their health insurance” in “each” of the eight years of the Bush administration. 4. Liberals Wage ... . Now they’ll have it all taxed away. 3. Did President Obama Lie About Health Care in His non-SOTU Tuesday [more...]
Date: 2009-02-27 10:00:00
Biden’s speech to AFL-CIO – who banned the cameras anyway?
Say what you will about Joe Biden, but one thing’s for sure. He’s transparent. Like last week when he was promoting the website he’s overseeing. “We’re going to put every bit of this transparently up on a website,” he said. Then he forgot the name of the website . And the website address [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 21:39:25
Work From Home? Need Health Insurance?
by Bate Dulin With work from home businesses springing up everywhere health insurance is becoming a matter of concern for many of us. Statistics tell us that as many as 40 million Americans have no health care plans ... and the political climate the way it is you may have more options than you think. Health insurance [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 03:34:11
False Axioms Produce Serious Nonsense
A long, long time ago you might have found yourself in a geometry class, and most teenagers – being teenagers – had a problem with axioms. Something didn’t seem right – to solve the problem at hand you had to list what was true to start with, something that was just a given, and build your logic on that [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 07:28:14
Text of VP Biden's once-top-secret union speech (except still no cameras)
Vice President Joe Biden, who's been touting the Obama administration's commitment to government transparency so much that he couldn't remember the recovery [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 01:12:00
10 Tips On Keeping Pet Treatment Costs Low
10 Tips On Keeping Pet Treatment Costs Low A pet is a loved member of the family but costs of caring for a pet especially some breeds can be ... of the more expensive commercial food. The internet has many resources about pet nutrition and balanced diets. 5. Ensure good health by giving the pet the right amount of food, exercise, and training [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 19:52:44
Obama tries to start conversation on health care
The nation can’t afford to wait for the economy to recover before tackling out-of-control medical costs, ... in the long term — rather, it is one of the best ways to reduce them,” Obama said. Obama ... President Barack Obama is telling some of the most powerful players in the health care reform [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 18:08:22
President Obama's First Speech to Congress
Remarks of President Barack Obama - As Prepared for Delivery Address to Joint Session of Congress Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 Madame Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, and the First Lady of the United States: I've come here tonight not only to address the distinguished men and women in this great chamber, [more...]
Date: 2009-02-25 10:50:31
Jill Andresky Fraser: A Farewell to Jobs
Crossposted from TomDispatch.com . According to a recently released AP-GfK poll , 32% of Americans are crazy. Oh, sorry. The poll actually revealed that 47% of those asked worry "a lot" or "some" about the possibility of losing their jobs. True, that's nearly twice as many as the same poll detected in February 2008, [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 19:58:00
Statement of U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis on February 2009 employment numbers
Statement of U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis on February 2009 employment numbers WASHINGTON, March 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- U.S ... , and address the long-term economic challenges we face -- including the high cost of health care ... and I have already moved to increase unemployment insurance benefits and to extend the duration [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 16:30:20
Ideas for Fixing Health Care
(Photo: Monica Almeida/The New York Times)A hospital in California ... cost of health care,” with premiums having grown four times faster than wages in the past eight years ... t be easy, he said, but it cannot wait another year. We asked some health care experts, who have seen [more...]
Date: 2009-02-25 17:45:07
OMB Director Orszag Budget Press Conference
Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag is speaking right now to introduce the budget in the Executive Office Building next door to the ... : Energy, health care, and education are our primary budget goals, but it's difficult because ... integrity results in $1.60 savings. For example, er [more...]
Date: 2009-02-26 16:15:00
Term Life Insurance : The Advantages
by Joseph Then I don’t know a thing about you, but I’ll bet that you may have some difficulties understanding the different policies that are ... you do? I am sure you have heard if term life insurance and also whole life insurance. Well, in this article, we are going to talk about life insurance. What exactly is term life insurance? Well [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 09:22:53
Stott: A folly among the icons…
Jump to CommentsMurray Stott examines the viability of Dunedin’s proposed new multipurpose stadium from a historical perspective.2007I have often reflected upon just how privileged I was as a 16-year-old to have experienced Beatlemania - full on - in the Dunedin Town Hall in June 1964 [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 10:32:18
10 Deceptive Business Models That Work
The 2008 subprime crisis was characterized by deception ... (basically a short-term insurance bet on whether the price of a commodity or equity will rise or drop ... traded crude oils and every one of them is probably a little crooked. 2. Unnecessary Insurance [more...]
Date: 2009-02-26 16:00:33
Obama's Budget Looks Great According To Krugman
President Obama at least has one big supporter of his new budget, famed economist Paul Krugman. Krugman believes that this budget is just what the country needs to turn things around ... on the affluent, but by putting a halt to the creeping privatization of Medicare, eliminating overpayments [more...]
Date: 2009-02-27 05:49:15
Paul Krugman: Climate of Change
Paul Krugman finds lots to like in Obama's proposed budget: Climate of Change, by Paul Krugman: Elections have consequences ... a halt to the creeping privatization of Medicare, eliminating overpayments to insurance companies ... s not to like about this budget? Basically, the long run outlook remains worrying. According to the Obama [more...]
Date: 2009-02-27 08:42:00
Getting Affordable Health Insurance In Charlotte
by David Benfer There are many Charlotte health insurance companies and programs available to you ... residents are insured with these insurance companies. In fact, there is a common belief that health care ... . The name most recognized in North Carolina as a health insurance provider is Blue Cross Blue [more...]
Date: 2009-03-07 09:22:44
Obama’s Address to Congress is Old News?
I noticed something about President Obama’s speech last night. It somehow…seemed familiar. See if you notice it too. -Scott —– Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for Delivery Address to Joint Session of Congress Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 Madame Speaker, Mr [more...]
Date: 2009-02-25 15:27:21
Brother in law’s guide: Go variable for cheapest mortgage rate in next 6 months, but long fixers should fix now (Updated March 5)
(Updated on March 5 to include latest economic outlook ahead of Reserve Bank OCR decision on March 12 ... since the last OCR cut on January 29 is I think now is the time for those thinking of fixing long to fix, because long term rates are about to rise, even though short term rates will fall further [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 05:59:02
Semi-State Of The Union: We Will Rebuild, And We Will Recover, And The United States Of America Will Emerge Stronger Than Before
WOW! It's been a long time since a forceful, intelligent president has addressed our nation and articulated a shared and hopeful vision for us all. Regardless of the disagreements I have with this or with that (and there are plenty), President Obama made me very proud tonight [more...]
Date: 2009-02-25 03:10:00
Healthcare 2.0: Will Obama succeed where Clinton failed? Read full text of today's speech here
President Obama hosts a forum on healthcare reform today that is intended to open the door ... , Obama is convening today's healthcare summit. And, as the New York Times pointed out, by naming [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 14:25:00
Obama Relies On Fraudulent Data To Frighten Americans Into Socialized Medicine
“The cost of health care now causes a bankruptcy in America every thirty seconds,” Obama said at the opening of his White House forum on health care reform. ABC factchecked ... .) President Obama’s kicking off his health care reform today in the worst possible way [more...]
Date: 2009-03-07 02:26:15
