Monthly Archives: September 2009

Long-Term Care Costs Escalate…Can We Fix The Problem?

We're going to make this a short post, but that doesn't mean it's any less important. Matter of fact, among many of the issues regarding escalating costs in health care and long-term care costs in particular, this may in fact be one of the biggest: He contended this is a “huge” system issue, which will ...

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How To Find The Best Long Term Care Insurance Company

This is the last post in a series of discussions about long term care & LTC insurance, based on a video series by Kiplinger's Long Term Care Center. Over the past couple weeks we've looked at what long term care is, the costs of long term care as well as how to pay for long ...

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Just Added: Live Feed of Long Term Care Insurance News & Views

We're excited to announce a neat little feature we've added to our long term care insurance blog - a live Twitter feed containing the most up-to-date news & views on long term care and long term care insurance. Go now - Live Feed - Long Term Care

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Save Hundreds of Dollars On Long-Term Care Insurance Premiums

This is part 4 of a discussion we're having on a series of videos provided by Kiplinger's Long Term Care Center. Previous entries included: What is Long Term Care? Long Term Care Costs How Much Paying for Long-Term Care Costs We're going to keep this ...

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Don’t Go Into Debt Because of Long-Term Care Costs – Video 3

This is our 3rd discussion about a series of long-term care videos provided by Kiplinger's. If you missed the first two, they are HERE and HERE. Today's topic receives a lot of attention, especially given the rising costs of health care and long-term care costs in particular. So, ...

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Long Term Care Costs How Much? – Video 2

Video 2 of the Kiplinger series asks the question many of us want the answer to: how much does long term care cost? If only there were an easy answer. The video provides some decent insight into this. There are many factors that impact the cost of long term care, the most obvious being, where ...

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Breaking Down the Basics of Long Term Care – Video 1

A couple weeks ago we promised we would take a look at a series of videos published by Kiplinger that focus on long term care planning and long term care insurance. Well, here we are. The video series contains 7 episodes, although we're going skip the introduction and jump right ...

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Will Assisted Living Insurance Cover Our Nursing Home Cost?

Sounds like a reasonable question right? Assisting living insurance will cover nursing home costs. Let's think about this. Hmmm... The truth is, it's kind of a trick question. First of all, there really is no such thing as assisted living insurance per se. Although you may hear someone claim they've purchased ...

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