Health Insurance

One of the biggest obstacles to retiring before age 65 is finding affordable health insurance. It takes a considerable amount of effort and can be very expensive for early retirees to purchase health insurance. Here are several ways to maintain health coverage until you qualify for Medicare. Retiree medical insurance. Most workers won’t receive retiree [...]

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My post last week, on the budget plan offered by Representative Paul D. Ryan, Republican of Wisconsin and chairman of the House Budget Committee, ended with the observation that the plan did not propose measures to control overall health spending in the United States, “nor does that appear to have been Mr. Ryan’s objective.” To [...]

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My hat is off to Max Baucus. He’s produced a credible plan to make health care both a right and a responsibility of all Americans while beginning to rein in health spending in a way that is politically acceptable to a majority of Americans. In many ways it is the most robust proposal so far [...]

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Soon you’ll get your employer’s open enrollment packet, and if the benefits experts are right, you could be facing a premium increase as high as 20 percent. If you’re young, healthy and barely use insurance, you might wonder if you are better off leaving your employer plan and finding a less expensive individual policy tailored [...]

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