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Category Archives: Individual Insurance
You Have Choices About How You Live and Die
I believe we all have choices about how we live today. That alone is more than most want to think about. But we should and direct our lives. I am a dvr junkie in our home and tape a lot of “stuff” on the weekend. My two favorites are c-span and I have a standing […]
Disability Awareness Month 2014 (DIAM)
May is the month every year that the insurance industry (lifehappens.org and disabilitycanhappen.org ) makes an effort to the public and insurance professionals to talk up the facts that people are, and can be affected by some type of disability. In fact people under 50 have a greater chance of having some type of disability than […]
Saving & Investing Checkup 2014
A Couples Financial Tuneup 04/26/13 NY Times Related Links (for more info about your money) Market Place Radio on Money investopedia.com forbes.com/sites/investopedia/ Info on Investopedia The NYTimes on your money The NYTimes : the Sketch Guy: Personal Finance on a Napkin NYTimes Ideas to make retirement possible (02/06/2014) nytimes.com-Ideas_to_Make_Retirement_Possible_2014_02_07 (right click for a pdf ) The […]
ACA Marketplace Application Process
The ACA (Afordable Care Act) health insurance is all over the media as are the ads for HealthCare.gov When individuals and family’s are looking for health insurance, you can get information from many sites on-line. The government site has good information but you can only get a plan here if you are eligible for a subsidy […]
Long Term Care Insurance Info From WSJ
Here is some good Long Term Care Insurance info that somehow got lost in the shuffle. It is not timely, but rather it’s timeless! We all get older each day and we all need to have some planning for our future and living past our work or productive years. From the Wall Street Journal: […]
Small Business Savings Plans
Small business savings plans are important for both business owners and their employee’s. I came across an article in my weekend Houston Chronicle newspaper on this topic. We work on this in our office and talk and plan about this for our clients. So I found it of interest and I think this is something […]
Saving and Planning for Retirement
If you are interested in planning and saving for your retirement, you will find the following resourses exteremely helpful: An excellent “personal-finance-reference-guide” from Marketplace Radio “A guide to US retirement accounts.” Retirement Guides from the DOL.gov (US Department of Labor) Two types of Cash balance pension plans Understanding fees and expenses (because they do add up) What […]
Life Insurance Awareness Month Sept 2013
September is LIAM or Life Insurance Awareness Month. Every year the Insurance organization LIFEhappens.org helps put out the word on Life Insurance in September. They do this with some direct media ads and by helping Agents (like us) with materials to help us inform and educate people on this important topic. If […]
Why Are American Health Care Costs So High?
Did you know that people in the United States spend more of their tax dollars on health care than any other country in the world? Yes more than the UK, Australia, and even Canada. This YouTube video, Why Are American Health Care Costs So High, explains why this is true and who’s to blame. Read more about the rising […]
Diabetes and Diabesity | What We Can Do About Them
Diabetes or Diabetes Melitus, which is the full name of the disease that people have some chance to control by how they live and eat. There are three major types of diabetes melitus (DM). Type I DM This is the type where you body does not make insulin and so the person has to take […]
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