Tag: healthcare

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Health insurance is really starting to hurt. Premium increases and deductible creep, documented in the Kaiser Family Foundation’s comprehensive annual survey of employer health benefits, are eye-popping figures. Although there has been a slowdown in medical inflation and health care spending overall, the growing prominence of high-deductible plans is evidence that more of these costs…

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HICAP, SHIP, SHINE – whatever your state calls the program, the mission is an urgent one. With some 10,000 baby boomers turning 65 every day, these programs help new enrollees grapple with their Medicare options and make decisions, especially during open enrollment, which begins on Thursday and ends Dec. 7. Medicare is “confusing” to boomers,…