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March 2001 |
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July 2004 |
Premium Hikes Slow As Plans Seek Members The opening murmurs in negotiations between health plans and large employers have been heard. Insurers are expected to seek an average 13.7 percent hike in premiums in 2005, according to a survey of 160 large employers. |
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The Hidden Costs of Partial Premium Payments Pay careful attention to the hidden interest charges your clients are paying on their insurance policies -- they are higher than you think. |
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Buy Now, Pay More Later Paying insurance premiums over time can cost your small business. |
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Whole Life vs. Term Life Whole and term are the two main forms of life insurance you should understand. Buy the kind of insurance that makes the most sense for you. |
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Slowdown in Premium Increase Expected to Continue Into 2007 The only thing falling in terms of health care costs seems to be the rate of increase of premiums - good news for employers and other purchasers. |
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Employers Focus On Just Who Should Be Covered Here are two interesting recent moves by employers to manage health benefits. |
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Getting The Most From No-Lapse Coverage No-lapse universal life keeps growing, but few understand these policies. |
Managed Care
September 2003 |
Verizon Wants Workers To Pay Part of Premium In yet another instance in which health benefits play a major role in union negotiations, Verizon employees cite that company's plan to make workers pay part of the premium as a major sticking point in talks. |
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November 1, 2005
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Medicare Drug Benefit 101 If financial advisers can understand the basics of the new Medicare drug benefit plan, they can provide a great service to their clients -- perhaps even save them money in premiums. Here's where to start. |
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The Real Retirement Time Bomb Without reform, Medicare premiums will eat away at Social Security benefits. |
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'B' Prepared Medicare has an unpleasant surprise for upper-income retirees, but worse is yet to come. Here are some of the issues financial planners need to know about. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2006
Kevin McKinley |
Premium Option When financial advisors start offering life insurance to their clients, they soon learn how wide the divergence is between term and permanent policies. Permanent policies are much more lucrative for advisors and provide some cash for clients during their lifetime. |
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Medicare Changes Coming Up If you haven't done a check-up on your clients' retirement health care costs lately, it's a good time to update the numbers. |
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Managed Care
January 2004 |
Large Employers Now Use DM To Cut Their Costs Employers are adopting disease management programs in a big way to slow the pace of health care premium increases, according to a survey of 3,000 businesses. |
Managed Care
January 2008 |
Managed Care Outlook 2008: A fairly good year seen for health plans. |
Registered Rep.
October 10, 2014
Mark Miller |
Healthcare Inflation is on the Mend Tame healthcare inflation is good news for your retired clients. |
Managed Care
July 2002
Frank Diamond |
Premium Hikes: No Cause for Celebration Lost market share and further erosion of public trust will be the long-term by-products of this short-term solution. |
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December 14, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
A Trillion Pieces of Pi Computer scientist Yasumasa Kanada and his coworkers at the University of Tokyo Information Technology Center have now succeeded in computing 1,241,100,000,000 decimal digits of pi, smashing their own previous world record of 206,158,430,000 digits, set in 1999. |
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