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The Motley Fool September 14, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
How You Can Make Health Care Affordable Health savings accounts and high-deductible health plans make a powerful combination. |
The Motley Fool November 7, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
Add Hundreds to Your Paycheck Take advantage of your annual chance to change your health insurance enrollment. Choosing the right options can make the difference between saving a bundle and spending too much. |
The Motley Fool November 3, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
Your Answer to Skyrocketing Health Costs Health savings accounts are worth a closer look. |
The Motley Fool July 5, 2006 Dan Caplinger |
Get an Insurance Checkup: Part 2 Insurance is a tricky subject, rife with complexity and confusing language and concepts. If you remember that your main goal in buying insurance is to reduce your own risk, it's easier to evaluate exactly what risks you have and therefore what sort of insurance you really need. |
The Motley Fool April 26, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
Don't Quit Your Health Insurance Quitting a job can elevate you to new heights in your career. To keep from paying the price, however, you need to make sure you bring your health insurance with you. |
The Motley Fool September 13, 2006 Dan Caplinger |
The Dark Side of HSAs The combination of tax-deductible savings, tax-free income and withdrawals, and lower insurance premiums make the health savings account provisions extremely attractive. However, HSAs aren't right for everyone. |
The Motley Fool August 29, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
Play It Safe With Your Health Census Bureau figures indicate 47 million Americans do not have health insurance. High deductible insurance is one solution that may help these individuals to avoid a potential financial disaster. |
The Motley Fool September 6, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
Make Your Job Work Harder for You You need to make the most of what employee benefits your employer gives you. |
Managed Care December 2007 |
Most HSA/HDHPs Cover Preventive Treatment on a First-Dollar Basis Most health savings account plans cover recommended preventive benefits on a first-dollar basis, which is to say without regard to whether the deductible has been met. A new survey shows which high-deductible plans are compatible. |
The Motley Fool April 13, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
Save on Insurance for Your Home Because of the stakes involved, making smart insurance decisions is tough. But if you have the means to work through your financial problems if disaster strikes, then you can turn your financial stability into increased savings on your insurance bill. |
Inc. April 2006 Carl Schramm |
Unexpected Benefits More people will start companies, thanks to health savings accounts. |
The Motley Fool September 16, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
The Biggest Casualty of Obamacare Health savings accounts that qualify for deductions on your income tax return could disappear. |
The Motley Fool September 29, 2006 Karl Thiel |
Is an HSA Right for You? Health savings accounts can help you reduce costs -- if you know how they work. |
Financial Planning April 1, 2007 Elizabeth O'Brien |
Are Your Clients Covered? Today's healthcare system demands vigilance from consumers and planners alike. Some financial planners are taking on the complex, expensive market for individual health insurance. And they're finding solutions. |
Financial Planning January 1, 2005 Kevin J. Delaere |
Healthy Advice Both clients and financial advisers should consider health and medical savings accounts as a vital part of an investment plan. |
The Motley Fool October 30, 2006 Tim Beyers |
Foolish Advice on Life Insurance Life insurance seems simple. And it should be. But more and more agents are selling complex, commission-boosting products that do little for consumers. Be cautious and buy only the minimum. |
BusinessWeek November 8, 2004 Howard Gleckman |
How Will The Plans Work? Here are some quick questions and answers about the alphabet soup of health insurance and medical accounts. |
Financial Planning April 1, 2007 Donald Jay Korn |
Healthy, Wealthy and Wise As more and more affluent clients start managing their medical costs, financial advisors may be asked to provide a second opinion on the choices. |
The Motley Fool October 13, 2009 Brian Orelli |
Health-Care Reform: You Can't Have It Both Ways Requiring insurers to cover pre-existing conditions needs to go hand-in-hand with requiring healthy people to purchase insurance. |
Managed Care September 2000 |
Any way you cut it, employers appear to save if Medicare adopts drug benefit A new analysis suggests that a prescription drug benefit in Medicare would reduce employer expense for health coverage--which, in turn, could encourage more employers to offer some form of drug coverage and thus reverse this erosion... |
Managed Care October 2000 |
Employer-based coverage up in strong economy Health insurance premiums rose 8.3 percent over the past year for all types of coverage, according to an annual survey of employers... |
Financial Advisor October 2005 O'Donnell & Maher |
Health Savings Accounts: To Have And To Hold Offering deductibility, tax-free growth, unpenalized carryovers from year to year, tax-free withdrawals and portability, a health savings account (HSA) is a financial planning tool that needs to be considered by advisers. |
Financial Planning April 1, 2006 Donald Jay Korn |
HSAs Determining how to procure vital health insurance without breaking clients' bankbooks has become a challenge for financial planners. Are these low-priced insurance plans the new prescription for rising healthcare costs? |
Entrepreneur October 2005 Jacquelyn Lynn |
Downshift Insuring business vehicles isn't cheap. John Schack, vice president and chief sales officer with insurance brokerage HUB International, offers tips for keeping your premiums down. |
Registered Rep. January 1, 2006 Jim Ambrosio |
Filling A Void The potential of the health savings account in the small-business market as both an investment and insurance vehicle is enormous for banks, brokerages and insurers, as well as for independent advisors. |
Managed Care September 2007 John Carroll |
Do Out-of-Pocket Payments Put Preventive Care on Hold? Studies by Cigna and Humana challenge some long-held assumptions about high-deductible plans. |
The Motley Fool October 23, 2007 Selena Maranjian |
Health Insurance for Young Retirees If you retire early, not only your paycheck stops; so does your company-provided health insurance. Here are several options you can consider. |
Managed Care October 2005 Martin Sipkoff |
The Lure of Tax Reform Politicians on both sides of the aisle are considering tax reforms as a way of fixing the health care system. What might it mean for health plans? |
The Motley Fool April 20, 2004 Robert Brokamp |
Raise Your Deductible? You can lower your insurance premiums by increasing your deductible -- but is it worth it? |
Inc. June 2008 |
How To Choose A Health Care Plan: Three Ways to Save Money Tips on saving money on group heath insurance plans. |
Financial Planning April 1, 2008 Donald Jay Korn |
Healthcare Without Medicare For many under-65 retirees, the most important question for them to think about is "How's your health?" |
The Motley Fool August 3, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
When to Buy Long-Term Care Insurance Long-term care insurance pays out financial benefits to help you pay the expenses of nursing homes and home health care. Should you buy now, wait, or just skip the whole thing? |
Registered Rep. October 22, 2012 Kevin McKinley |
Giving Working Clients a Health Insurance Checkup As health care has taken center stage in the national debate, one of clients' biggest concerns is how to handle their ever-increasing and always-confusing health insurance and health care costs. |
BusinessWeek March 15, 2004 Carol Marie Cropper |
Why Health Savings Accounts May Flop It's that time of year: Accountants are reminding you to make contributions to tax-favored plans such as IRAs and 401(k)s. This year brings a new option -- the Health Savings Account, approved late last year in the same bill that gave seniors prescription-drug coverage. But don't rush to sign up: You almost certainly don't qualify. |
BusinessWeek October 20, 2003 William C. Symonds |
Get Used To The Pain Another round of double-digit hikes in health-care costs is in the mail. |
Inc. June 2008 |
How To Choose A Health Care Plan: Finding the Right Plan Advice on what companies should consider when choosing a group heath plan. |
Bank Technology News October 2005 Michael Sisk |
Health Savings Accounts: As HSAs Multiply, So Do Tech Plays With a market predicted to surpass that of 401(k)s, health savings accounts are becoming the hottest commodity. The market's explosive potential also has tech providers' tongues wagging. |
The Motley Fool October 22, 2010 Selena Maranjian |
How to Cut Your Health-Care Costs The average family pays $4,000 in premiums for a work-sponsored health-care insurance plan. However, with a little effort, you can cut those costs considerably. |
Managed Care July 2005 MargaretAnn Cross |
Efforts To Cover the Uninsured An Opportunity for Health Plans Employers and state governments are getting together to design imaginative insurance programs to cover low-pay workers. |
Managed Care January 2007 |
Consumer-Directed Drive Loses Steam Enrollment growth in consumer-directed or high-deductible health plans stalled last year, according to a survey by the Employee Benefit Research Institute and the Commonwealth Fund. |
Entrepreneur March 2008 Mark Henricks |
An Apple a Day . . . When Jason Crawforth started Treetop Tech Inc. in 1997, he didn't offer employees company-sponsored health coverage. Today, he is finding there are more avenues to get health insurance. |
The Motley Fool July 30, 2004 Roy Lewis |
Accounts Ease Medical Costs The new health savings accounts help ease the burden of high-deductible medical policies. |
Inc. April 2005 Jennifer Gill |
Cut Your Health Care Costs Now Nine ways to slash your small firm's insurance costs, from health savings accounts to getting tough with your broker to joining purchasing pools. |
The Motley Fool December 12, 2006 John Dutemple |
What About My Health Insurance??! COBRAs? HIPAAs? It's a jungle out there. A job change is stressful enough without the worry of losing your health insurance. Here is a guide through the jungle of rules and options. |
The Motley Fool June 8, 2007 Brian Lawler |
This Stupid Mistake Cost Me More Than $20,000 Going without health-care coverage can spell disaster for your finances. Even if you only intend to be without insurance for a few months, weeks, or days, it could end up costing you a lifetime of financial pain. |
Financial Advisor November 2010 David Armes |
What To Expect Understanding upcoming health-care reforms. |
Managed Care October 2007 |
CDHPs Aren't Catching On Despite the extensive attention paid to consumer-directed health plans, a survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation shows that these types of plan arrangements have made only small inroads in the employer market. |
The Motley Fool December 11, 2007 Dayana Yochim |
PPO? HMO? HSA? OMG! Ready or not, for many employees, this is the only chance for the next 12 months to modify their health coverage. Here's how to pick the right employee health-care plan, whether you're single, married, in a family way, or feathering an empty nest. |
Managed Care March 2005 John Carroll |
HSAs: Early Returns Are In A significant number of consultants, insurers, politicians, and, oh yes, the companies that purchase health care are increasing their interest in health savings accounts. |
BusinessWeek October 24, 2005 Lauren Young |
A Bad Case Of Sticker Shock Next year's health benefits will cause you to say "Ouch!" Here's what the most important changes will look like - and how painful they'll be. |