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Pre-Retirees Have a Health Care Planning Problem
By Michael S. FischerA gap exists between perceptions of health care and long-term care costs and overall financial preparedness, research finds.
January 13, 2025
Life Application Activity Suffers From the Winter BlahsPost-election uncertainty and agents' efforts to help clients with Medicare enrollment stress may have hurt volume.
January 02, 2025
WSJ Goes After Insurers' Medicare Advantage StrategyReporters looked into allegations that plans make patients look sicker than they are to boost payments.
December 27, 2024
Will the Medicare Plan Market Please Stop Shaking?Amanda Brewton, a distribution and policy veteran, has ideas about how agents can help add stability.
December 23, 2024
Mid-Career Adults Face 19% Increase in Death RateThe major drivers appear to be drug overdoses, alcohol and cardiovascular problems.
December 21, 2024
Biden Signs Anti-Shutdown Bill With Some Medicare Funding ProvisionsThe final American Relief Act excludes the Medicare plan directory and cancer blood test provisions.
December 20, 2024
Fight Over House Anti-Shutdown Bill Affects Medicare ProvisionsWith a midnight deadline looming, the House and the Senate rushed to approve a package and send it to the president.
December 20, 2024
Preparing for Medicare Changes in the New YearThe costs are higher and the benefits are different.