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- Supplemental Disability Insurance and Long-Term Care Insurance: Building a Comprehensive Executive Benefits Package
- This article asserts that highly compensated executives typically have a strong appreciation of their special retirement planning needs given the severe limitations imposed on qualified retirement plans. The same is true with respect to their estate planning needs and the role life insurance plays in protecting their assets for their...
- White papers 2002-08-01
- Florida Long Term Care: General Liability And Professional Liability
- General liability and professional liability (GL/PL) costs for the long term care industry in Florida continue to rise to astronomical levels, and estimating the cost of these claims has become almost impossible. This report, which is an update to a study released a year ago, clearly identifies that the long...
- White papers 2001-02-12
- Outsourcing Long-Term Care Policy Administration Allows Entry In The Short Term
- Outsourcing is the methodology wherein an organization procures strategic services from an external firm that has expertise in delivering those particular services. Outsourcing allows the insurance companies to effectively sell long-term care policies without investing much in infrastructure or people. Such strategy is cost-effective for the insurance companies since long-term...
- White papers 2002-04-01
- A Woman's Guide to Long-Term Care
- This paper focuses on the insurance on long term care for women. Long-term care is the assistance needed when a person can not perform activities of daily living due to a cognitive impairment like Alzheimer's, illness, injury, or age. Care can range from someone coming into home to help with...
- White papers
- Special report: A Supplement to Vital Aging Report
- This Special Report raises important questions on long-term care insurance and offers help in selecting an appropriate policy. One option for covering long-term care expenses is private long-term care insurance. This type of insurance may be available to retirees through their former employer or can be purchased from numerous insurance...
- White papers 2003-09-16
- Long-Term Care Insurance: Who Needs It
- This article summarizes information regarding life and health insurance. Most of us will buy health insurance and insurance for home, car, and other property replacement. However, fewer of us buy long-term care insurance, either not thinking about it or hoping that our savings will be sufficient to meet any associated...
- White papers 2004-07-23
- Long-Term Care Insurance in 2002
- This study validates the persistency of long-term care insurance coverage. Findings from this study show significantly lower than expected lapse rates. Based on data reported by many individual insurers, AHIP estimates that roughly 7 in 10 of all individual policies sold remain in force. This may indicate that consumers view...
- White papers 2004-06-01
- A Survey of Employers Offering Group Long-Term Care Insurance to Their Employees
- Private long-term care insurance provides one of the few available mechanisms for individuals to protect themselves against the catastrophic costs of long-term care. Long-term care LTC insurance sold through employers has advantages over policies available through the individual market that may increase sales, including Lower premiums due to more effective...
- White papers 2000-06-20
- Dynamic Inefficiencies in Insurance Markets: Evidence From Long-Term Care Insurance
- This paper examines whether unregulated, private insurance markets efficiently provide insurance against reclassification risk the risk of becoming a bad risk and facing higher premiums. To do so, it examines the ex-post risk type of individuals who drop their long-term care insurance contracts relative to those who are continually insured....
- White papers 2005-01-01
- Private Information and Its Effect on Market Equilibrium: New Evidence From Long-Term Care Insurance
- This paper examines the standard test for asymmetric information in insurance markets: that its presence will result in a positive correlation between insurance coverage and risk occurrence. The paper shows empirically that while there is no evidence of this positive correlation in the long-term care insurance market, asymmetric information still...
- White papers 2003-09-01
- The Interaction of Public and Private Insurance: Medicaid and the Long-Term Care Insurance Market
- The paper shows that the provision of even incomplete public insurance can substantially crowd out private insurance demand. It examines the interaction of the public Medicaid program with the private market for long-term care insurance and estimate that Medicaid can explain the lack of private insurance purchases for at least...
- White papers 2004-12-01
- Supplemental Disability and Long-Term Care Insurance: Building a Comprehensive Executive Benefits Package
- Highly compensated executives typically have a strong appreciation of their special retirement planning needs given the severe limitations imposed on qualified retirement plans. The same is true with respect to their estate planning needs and the role life insurance plays in protecting their assets for their loved ones. As a...
- White papers 2002-06-14
- Consider Conseco
- Conseco sells health insurance and other products, but until recently most investors considered it an ailing company. Tucked away in the quiet corner of Carmel, Indiana, Conseco bounced from misadventure to bankruptcy. Although it always paid its claims, if ever there was an insurer that looked like its pockets were empty,...
- Blog posts 2009-12-19
Additional Resources
- Whole Foods fans decry CEO's health care views
- Whole Foods aficionados who assumed the company's management was as crunchy as the brand are feeling betrayed. They have stormed Twitter, Facebook and the blogosphere to vent their rage at John Mackey, the chief executive. In an op-ed column in the Wall Street Journal last week, he argued for health-care...
- News items 2009-08-19
- In Smartphone Wars, Darwinism Triumphs Over Intelligent Design
- With the release of the Verizon Droid, the smartphone market now has two apex predators with advanced, feature rich mobile embedded operating systems. There's no room for smaller or less evolved players, and survival of the fittest in the war of the handsets may very well mean industry and carrier...
- News items 2009-11-08
- Eleven More Companies Flee Glenn Beck [Controversies]
- Poor, sad sack Glenn Beck has even more woes than just unwarranted, and ill-advised, threats on his life . Eleven more companies have decided to pull their ads from his Fox News program. Who are they? Well, thanks to anti-Beck boycott...
- News items 2009-09-03
- Bank Mergers and the 'Curse of Bigness'
- "Size, we are told, is not a crime. But size may, at least, become noxious by reason of the means through which it was attained or the uses to which it is put." -- Louis Brandeis One of the challenges of dealing with financial institutions that are "too big...
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
- Hiding In Plain Sight: Using Medicare To Solve The â??Public Optionâ?? Conundrum
- By JEFF GOLDSMITH As Senate and House Committee versions of health reform move toward unified legislation and floor votes, the most complex political challenge is how to resolve the "public option" controversy. While one would have thought weightier issues such as the shape of Medicare reform, the taxation required to...
- News items 2009-10-21
- Pfizer - Bextra: DOJ press conference
- Justice Department Announces Largest Health Care Fraud Settlement in Its History Pfizer to Pay $2.3 Billion for Fraudulent Marketing WASHINGTON – American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. and its subsidiary Pharmacia & Upjohn Company Inc. (hereinafter together "Pfizer") have agreed to pay...
- News items 2009-09-02
- Google Health Privacy: All Talk, No Teeth?
- Google Health and its supporters talk a good game about the lengths the service goes in protecting the privacy of users' health records -- all necessary because the main federal patient-privacy law, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA, doesn't apply to online health services of this sort. ...
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
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