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How to Reduce Healthcare Costs in the New Year

You are probably acutely aware that healthcare costs continue to impact your pocketbook more each year. So, what can you do to reduce your healthcare costs in the new year? Here are some ideas:

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Are You Making These 3 Mistakes with Your HSA?

The HSA isn’t for everyone, but if you have a high-deductible account, and can afford the out-of-pocket costs until you meet you deductible (I rarely meet my deductible, because I have few health care...

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Retirement Planning: Don't Forget Health Care Costs

Many Americans are worried about health care costs during retirement, but, as a recent Fidelity survey indicates, they may not be worried nearly enough.

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Tips for Using a Health Savings Account

Your HSA can provide you with a tax-advantaged way to save for the future as part of your overall plan to build your wealth.

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Obamacare Offers More Workers the Chance to Quit Their Jobs

The Congressional Budget Office believes that there will be a reduction in the equivalent of two million jobs because entrepreneurs and others can leave their jobs and get affordable health care...

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3 Tips for Avoiding Higher Health Care Costs

If you want to keep your own personal health care costs as low as possible, there are 3 main things you need to do:

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What are the Consequences if You Don't Have Health Insurance by March 31?

The deadline for signing up is March 31. If you are already covered by health insurance, through your work or through an individual or family plan, you don’t need to sign up. However, if you are one of...

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Obamacare Deadline Approaches: Will You Pay a Penalty?

If you don’t have health coverage, and you don’t qualify for an exemption, you have until March 31, 2014 to sign up for a plan.

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Can You Afford to Not Have Health Insurance?

If you aren’t covered by a health plan right now, you have until March 31, 2014 to sign up — or face the possibility of a penalty next year when you file your tax return.

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Obamacare Delay: Should You Keep Your Health Plan for Another Two Years?

Even though you might be able to keep your non-compliant plan for another couple of years, Yahoo! Finance reports that you might not want to.

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Why are More Women than Men Enrolling in the ACA?

Health costs are also impacting women differently than men – and resulting in a higher amount of female interest in the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

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How to Reduce Healthcare Costs in the New Year

You are probably acutely aware that healthcare costs continue to impact your pocketbook more each year. So, what can you do to reduce your healthcare costs in the new year? Here are some ideas:

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Are You Being Impacted by the Affordable Care Act?

Beginning in 2014, everyone is required to have health insurance coverage or pay a fine. There are exceptions to this rule, and there are those who would rather pay the fine — at least for now — than...

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How is the ACA Affecting Middle Class Americans?

With the Affordable Care Act (ACA) rolling out its widest-reaching provision right now, there is so much new information — some of it wrong — that many consumers are unsure of how to proceed.

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Top 5 Best Insurance Companies

Insurance protects you from unexpected expenses and emergencies, but not everyone is comfortable with the idea of applying for one. Some of them even think insurance agents are merely out to get them...

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A Health Care Crisis

I recently watched this documentary and it captured my attention because of the grotesque amount of money we spend on healthcare each year in the United States ($2,700,000,000,000), the ongoing...

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Gerri Willis of Fox Business Answers Your Questions on Obamacare

I was approached last week by Fox Business to do a brief Q & A related to Obamacare and changes we’ll see coming in light of it. I was, of course, more than happy to provide a platform to answer a...

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What You Need to Know About Health Care Before 2014

You’ve probably heard about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). So, what do you need to know about health care before 2014? Here are some of the things you should be aware of

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PPACA: Should You Get Health Insurance or Pay a Fine?

Now that 2014 is around the corner, it's time to seriously start looking at purchasing health insurance, if you don't already have it.

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The Affordable Care Act 101 • Novel Investor

The Affordable Care Act will bring a big health reform change to insurance plan coverage in 2014. You can start making plans now. A number of those changes will be introduced October 1, to give you a...

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