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How to Choose a Health Care Plan
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How to Buy a Life Insurance Policy
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Should You Purchase Long-Term-Care Insurance?
WSJ.comLong-term-care insurance. It's a subject most people don't want to think about—but many people know they need to. At first blush, policies that help pay the costs of extended nursing care make perfect sense. Bills add up quickly when you can ...
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Medicare Covers In-Home Care
WSJ.comMany people assume that Medicare provides little to no continuing coverage for in-home health care. In fact, the program covers up to 35 hours a week of nursing and home health care for those who meet specific requirements.
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Don't Grow Old Without It
WSJ.comLong-term-care insurance: It can make the difference between living out your life the way you want and becoming a burden to your family or a ward of the state.
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Assisted-Living Costs Overstated
WSJ.comThe article "The New Retirement Resorts" (Weekend Investor, March 17) says that high-end assisted living costs as much as $9,500 a month based on a study by long-term care insurer Genworth. This figure is misleading and far ...
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Long-Term Care: What Now?
WSJ.comShopping for long-term-care insurance? You should expect higher costs and a tougher approval process as a growing number of household-name insurers quit selling the policies.
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Medicaid Gets Harder to Tap
WSJ.comFamilies hoping to use Medicaid to help pay for long-term care are facing tougher restrictions—though some states are getting stricter than others.
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Class Warfare; Repealing an entitlement that even the White House says won't work.
WSJ.comThe House votes today on repealing one of the Affordable Care Act's major new subsidy programs, and the referendum deserves more attention than it will probably get. The important point is not merely eliminating one of ObamaCare's ...
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Don't Join the Ostrich Generation; Amid the Choppy Markets, Too Many Soon-to-Be Retirees Have Avoided Making Key Decisions. Here's What to Do—Right Now
WSJ.comStocks are volatile, the economy is stagnant, and corporate pensions and Social Security seem less viable by the day. One might expect such a dismal confluence of events to jolt aspiring retirees into financial-planning overdrive, furiously ...
How to Tap Home Equity -- Without a Bank; With Wells Fargo, the nation's largest seller of reverse mortgages, getting out of the business, the loans will become harder to get--and more expensive.
SmartMoney.comIf someone in your family is planning to apply for a reverse mortgage to pay for long-term care or other expenses, they should move quickly: Two of the largest lenders are exiting the business, and a popular federal incentive geared toward ...
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Taking Care of Disabled Heirs; When Loved Ones Need Help, Estate Planning Can be Tricky
WSJ.comDeciding how to leave your assets to your kids is tricky enough. If your adult child has a chronic disability, the task is much more complicated.
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Retirement Roundtable; Numbers That May Make You Sick; Health-care costs for retirees can be crippling. That's why planning is so crucial.
WSJ.comOne of the biggest and most challenging issues in retirement is how to plan and pay for health-care expenses. Medical bills can mushroom in later life and crush nest eggs—a risk that raises a slew of questions: How much money will I need ...
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'Combined' Insurance Policies Grow
WSJ.comSales of insurance policies that combine long-term-care with other forms of insurance are booming. But before buying, it's important to understand the possible drawbacks.
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The Definition of Insanity; Why no one wants to repeal a program that everyone knows is a fraud.
WSJ.comThe Obama health-care plan passed 18 months ago, and its cynicism still manages to astonish. Witness the spectacle surrounding one of its flagship new entitlements, which is eliciting some remarkable concessions from its drafters.
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What's News: World-Wide
WSJ.comThe U.S. dropped a long-term care insurance program. The Obama administration said it is unable to implement the initiative—known as the Class Act—that was part of the 2010 health overhaul.
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Cuts Would Only Shift Health-Care Costs
WSJ.comThe $350 billion or so in potential cuts to Medicare and Medicaid over 10 years that were identified in budget negotiations would shift the cost of medicine to public hospitals, the states and individuals, but wouldn't do much to ...
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For Many Seniors, There May Be No Retirement
WSJ.comWhen Angela Gregor's mother became ill and needed long-term care in the 1990s, Ms. Gregor tapped her individual retirement account for funds and stopped making contributions. Then came the tumultuous stock-market ups and downs of the ...
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Driving a Bargain For Long-Term Care
WSJ.comWhen you buy a car or a house, you expect to haggle for the best price. It turns out that you can do the same thing when you shop for long-term care.
A Tax Break for Retirement Community Costs; A little-known tax rule can help offset the cost of some retirement communities. Here's how.
SmartMoney.comFor many aging boomers or their parents, the retirement road eventually leads to what's called a "continuing care retirement community" or CCRC. These places were once called nursing homes and conjured up negative images. ...
Medicare Cuts Could Up Nursing Home Costs; Recent cuts point to higher prices, fewer services for residents.
SmartMoney.comNursing home residents may soon face higher costs and reduced services, as planned Medicare spending cuts take effect this fall. IIt's an indirect -- and, some say, unanticipated -- consequence of more routine cost-cutting for the ...
Health Reform's Long-Term Care Option
SmartMoney.comTucked into the health reform legislation that passed in March is a national voluntary insurance program for purchasing long-term-care services.
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Beyond Estate Planning: Bankers Tackle Elder Care
WSJ.comIf you are looking for help caring for an older family member, you might try giving your banker a call. That might not seem like an obvious move. But private banks and trust companies say that they increasingly are helping older clients—or ...
3 Steps to Finding the Right Nursing Home
SmartMoney.comChoosing a nursing home ranks among the most painful and emotionally fraught decisions you or I will ever make, even if we are ultimately able to find satisfying environments for our loved ones. As a result, too many of us wait to talk with ...
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You Can Get in Over Your Head With a Pool
WSJ.comYou're probably getting a lot of use out of your pool this sweltering summer. But how much is it really costing you? Elaine Scoggins, a financial adviser with Merriman investment advisers in Seattle, says people tend to underestimate ...
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Help for Long-Term Care Costs
WSJ.comWorkers are getting a new long-term-care insurance option. But with many details yet to be worked out, it may be too soon to tell how much impact it will have.
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What’s in a name? What an adviser’s credentials mean for you
MarketWatchBOSTON (MarketWatch) — Say you’re nearing retirement age, and you want to improve your portfolio to make sure it lasts a lifetime and helps meet your personal goal of putting the grandkids through college someday.
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Long-Term-Care Premiums Soar
WSJ.comPeople with long-term-care insurance polices are getting hit with a new round of steep premium increases. But there are options that can help both existing policyholders and new buyers cut some of the costs.
Long-Term-Care Premiums Soar
SmartMoney.comPeople with long-term-care insurance polices are getting hit with a new round of steep premium increases. But there are options that can help both existing policyholders and new buyers cut some of the costs.
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Omnicare Keeps Paying
WSJ.comHealth-care costs, the national debt and taxes are all going up, and Joel Gemunder is one reason why. Until Mr. Gemunder's abrupt retirement was announced on Monday, he was CEO of Covington, Ky.-based Omnicare, the nation's largest ...
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Long-Term Care: New Fixes; Insurers Are Rolling Out Alternatives to Pricey Coverage; Weighing Pros, Cons
WSJ.comAs long-term-care insurance grows increasingly expensive and harder to get, insurers are stepping into the breach with new life policies and annuities that pay out long-term-care benefits during one's lifetime. But the new products may ...
Best Careers for Family Caregivers
SmartMoney.comFor the 43 million Americans taking care of another adult, climbing the corporate ladder may seem all but impossible. Now, though, help is coming from a surprising corner: Your employer.
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How to Pay for Good Health
Barrons.comTHE GOOD NEWS about the golden years is that they've never been longer, thanks to the steady march of medical advances. The bad news is that the medicine will cost you plenty. Your out-of-pocket costs for general health care could ...
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Cuomo in Medicaid Deal
WSJ.comStriking a compromise with the hospital industry, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has agreed to a new Medicaid plan that would scale back his goals for cost-cutting but would give his administration significant leeway to regulate growth in the public ...
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Fiscal Health Hinges on Containing Costs of Care
WSJ.comPrepare to hear a lot (more) about Medicaid, the government health-insurance program for the poor. President Barack Obama is trying to protect the expansion of Medicaid built into his health-care law. Governors from both parties are trying ...
How to Pick the Right Nursing Home
SmartMoney.comSelecting the right nursing home for your mom or dad has always required what seems like a never-ending series of difficult decisions. But with cases of abuse and neglect against elderly on the rise, those questions have given way to an ...
Long-Term Care Insurance Confusion
SmartMoney.comIt's a product many consumers don't even want to think about, and who can blame them? Long-term-care insurance isn't exactly designed for the best of times: Payments kick in to cover nursing home and other costs if the ...
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