My Comments: I’ve posted extensively over these past 5 years about the ACA and the health care industry in general. I’ve watched, as a person involved in selling health care insurance these past 40 years, the confounding annual increases in the cost of healthcare to the point it would overwhelm our GDP if not checked. …
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My friend Bill Goodman wrote this and posted it to his Facebook page. My thoughts about what he wrote follow his comments. Approximately 50 percent of the students in Alachua County come from households that qualify them for free or reduced lunch services. Most of these students’ parents are employed and work one or more …
My Comments: Medicare, along with a Medicare supplemental policy, is, for many millions of Americans, a critical element in their lives. I know it is in mine and that of my wife. As longevity raises its sometimes ugly head, the ability to seek professional health care when the need arises, without having to worry about …
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My Comments: Today is Tuesday and I normally post something about Social Security. But health issues in retirement are a major concern for many of us. So paying for timely and necessary medical help becomes another critical issue. While it might be necessary to tweak the system from time to time, the headlines coming out …
My Comments: The subtitle to this was 2 Reasons Why Health Care Costs So Much. Couple this with my blog post from yesterday and it seems appropriate to follow up with an article that might help explain why we pay so much for health care in exchange for relatively poor outcomes compared with much of …
Continue reading The Rising Cost of Health Care and Its Causes
My Comments: With all the crap going on in Washington about repealing the ACA, it might be helpful to know (or maybe not) where we stand on the global stage when it comes to health care. A London based think tank created a Global Prosperity Index, and among their results is a ranking on health …
Continue reading The 16 countries with the world’s best healthcare systems
My Comments: 40 years ago found me selling health insurance policies. I’ve seen how they evolved to where the annual premium increases, as little as ten years ago, would eventually result in collective premiums that exceeded the Gross National Product. That’s ridiculous, and something had to change. Along came ObamaCare and it’s promise to bring …
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My Comments: This comes from, of all places, the National Latino Council on Alcohol and Tobacco Prevention (nlcatp.org). It was written by their chief editor whose name I cannot find. As someone who professes to know the basics about retirement planning, having a good understanding about paying for medical care as your life plays out …
My Comments: Having access to medical care is a big deal. Having access to medical care that you can afford is a big deal. And it becomes a bigger deal when you are no longer employed and attempting to live the rest of your life with some degree of financial freedom. By Glenn Ruffenach July …
Continue reading How Much Will Your Health Expenses Be In Retirement?
My Comments: If you are 65 and older, Medicare is fantastic. Okay, it has its limitations, but coupled with what is known as a MediGap or MedSup plan, it’s fantastic. You can argue all you want about how this country is slowly sinking into a socialist morass, but when you reach my age, health issues …
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