Tag: Long Term Care Insurance

5 Medical Insurance Ideas Post-Retirement

Guest Author
Medicare 2012

Similar to planning your pension or retirement fund, planning your medical insurance for post retirement is largely a case of future planning. Taking into consideration the current global economic situation, we are living in a time of great financial insecurity. By planning ahead, we can hopefully try to cushion any unexpected financial changes, be it personal finances or state finances. These issues are hard to bracket into one general group, as everybody’s financial and personal situation is individual but these tips might help to get you on the right track…

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Long term care insurance not a high priority for many in the US

Julie Campbell
Long Term Care Insurance

New research has shown that the coverage and other preparations for LTC is not a top concern. According to the results of a new poll, which looked into the way that people aged 40 and higher are making preparations for their future aging needs, the trend is that few are making a high priority of taking out long term care insurance and making other preparations to pay for the costly assistance that they may one day need. Two thirds of the participants in the study said that they had planned…

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Long term care insurance to take some pressure from Medicaid and Medicare

Long Term Care insurance Costs

These expenses could start to threaten these healthcare programs if the coverage doesn’t take off. The latest reports about the number of people who are purchasing long term care insurance are revealing that if this trend continues, it could end up leading to a considerable amount of strain on the Medicaid and Medicare programs than they have faced in the past. Many parts of the country see expenses greater than $100,000 per person for these services. As this level of cost can rapidly deplete a family’s finances, it can rapidly…

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Long term care insurance changes coming to New Jersey

G. Turner
Long Term Care Insurance

This could mean that consumers – particularly women – will be paying considerably higher premiums. According to the latest information from New Jersey, it appears that consumers should start to prepare themselves for some considerably higher long term care insurance premiums before the second half of this year. This will be especially true for women, who could also find their policy provisions more restrictive. Consumers are also being cautioned that this could happen at any time without any warning. The long term care insurance industry is blaming the historically low…

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Long term care insurance customers prefer home care

G. Turner
long term care insurance trends

Research has shown that this is the preferred way to use the benefits when it is possible. When it comes to the buyers and users of long term care insurance policies, studies are showing that the benefits are primarily being used for home care as opposed to residence in a nursing home or other form of assisted living facility. It is the type of coverage that people don’t like to think about and that they hesitate to buy. However, among those who do buy it, certain trends are being identified…

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