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What are the smartest financial moves you've recently made in these tough economic times? MONEY magazine wants to know.
In a forthcoming story, MONEY will highlight key moves that investors, savers, workers, and property owners can make to shore up their finances and take advantage of opportunities in this sluggish economy.
As part of that article, we want to include stories from different people about actions they've taken to improve their personal MORE
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Do you have a story to tell about how someone sold you a Medicare plan? MONEY magazine would like to hear about it.
For people who will be covered by Medicare next year, it's almost time to pick a plan. If you or a relative uses Medicare for health coverage, you'll need to be wary of marketing programs that could persuade you to make a bad choice.
Three years ago, in response MORE
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One of the nation's largest providers of long-term care insurance is planning to raise premiums an average of 40% next year — a move that revives the longstanding question of whether the pitfalls of buying a long-term care policy outweigh the payoffs.
John Hancock — which, boasting more than a million LTC insurance clients, says it's the largest provider of employer-sponsored group LTC insurance in the country, and one of the MORE
George Mannes - Oct 8, 2010 3:10 PM ET
True to the cliche, it makes a pretty good doorstop:
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Whenever big legislation that changes the tax code is passed, the nice folks at CCH send MONEY a bound copy of the new law, along with their explanation of how it will work. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is long enough to require two volumes, one for the law itself (plus a committee report) and MORE
Pat Regnier - May 18, 2010 9:39 PM ET
During the many months of talking, yelling, finger-pointing and partisan spinning about the best way to reform our health care system, it was hard for Americans to actually understand exactly how any sort of overhaul would affect them. Given how often things were moving and changing, even this blogger -- who covers health care as one of her beats -- found it difficult to stay on top of what MORE
Amanda Gengler - Mar 22, 2010 2:12 PM ET
More or less buried in the massive debate over what our health care system should look like is a provision to create a national long-term care insurance program. The Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act would allow people to pay an average $65 a month and, after five years, be eligible for between $50 to $100 a day in benefits. Insurers oppose the CLASS Act -- clearly, it MORE
Lisa Gibbs - Nov 11, 2009 10:55 AM ET
By now you're probably accustomed to your health care costs climbing each year. But brace yourself: 2010 is shaping up to be a doozie -- a year that could shake up your opinion about how attractive the current employer-provided health care system really is..
When I reported a story for the November issue of MONEY about selecting 2010 health benefits, I was shocked by the expected rise in health care MORE
Amanda Gengler - Nov 5, 2009 6:05 PM ET
Many workers unfortunate enough to get the ax in this recession at least had one thing working in their favor: subsidized health insurance. This past February Congress threw out a temporary life preserver for workers laid off between September 1, 2008, and December 31, 2009: For up to nine months, Uncle Sam covers 65% of the monthly premium that these newly unemployed people have to pay to stay on their MORE
Amanda Gengler - Nov 4, 2009 8:57 AM ET
Here's part two of my extended interview with renegade supply-side economist Bruce Bartlett, including some thoughts on Medicare that might just scare the pants off you. See here for part one, and here for the less-wonky version that's running in Money's November issue.
David Futrelle: As one of the original supply-siders, you worry that supply side economics had been reduced to little more than a religion of tax cuts, tax cuts, MORE
David Futrelle - Oct 22, 2009 10:55 AM ET
It used to be that the mythbusters at Snopes.com were the go-to-guys for refutations of weird rumors. These days, though, those diligent debunkers can barely keep up. It seems like only yesterday that tongues were wagging about Obama's alleged non-citizenship -- a false rumor the site addressed earlier this month with a typically withering takedown of the forged birth certificate that purportedly proves Barack Obama was born in Kenya.
Now the MORE
David Futrelle - Aug 15, 2009 7:00 AM ET
In the Great Health Care Debate, much has been ballyhooed about the United States' low life expectancy when compared to other first-world countries. Our life expectancy at age 50 ranks 29th in the world -- 3.3 years behind Japan (the leader) and also behind Canada, France, Iceland and Spain, among others. In contrast, the U.S. spends 16% of its GDP on health care -- more than any other country.
Of course, MORE
Joe Light - Aug 14, 2009 10:25 AM ET
Here's my suggestion for solving the nation's healthcare crisis — the one that I would propose at one of those town-meeting shoutfests if I could get in a word edgewise: Make sure that members of Congress are living with the same health benefits that the rest of us are.
As reported recently by the Los Angeles Times, you see, senators and members of the House of Representatives enjoy a health insurance MORE
George Mannes - Aug 13, 2009 11:04 AM ET
Older nonwealthy Americans are racking up credit card debt at a rate that outpaces other groups.
People age 65 and up carried an average of $10,235 credit card debt in 2008, according to a study released Tuesday by Demos, a public policy research group. That's an increase of 26% since the organization's last survey of low- and middle-income borrowers in 2005. The average debt for all borrowers in the survey rose MORE
Ismat Sarah Mangla - Jul 28, 2009 2:53 PM ET
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