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- insurance that pays a specified sum to the insured person's beneficiaries after the person's death.
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- Consumers Get Ethical Advice on Long-Term Care Insurance, Annuities and Life Insurance at AARP Annual Conference from Insurance Marketplace Standards Association
- WASHINGTON -- Who needs long-term care insurance? What are key questions to ask when purchasing life insurance? Are annuities sound investments for everyone?
- Research articles 2004-09-29
- Transamerica Life Insurance Company of New York Announces TransGenerations Long-Term Care Insurance Policy Approved for Use With the New York State Partnership for Long Term Care
- Business Editors
- Research articles 2002-05-13
- John Hancock Banks on LTC Rider.
- John Hancock Financial Services has introduced a universal life insurance policy with a long-term-care rider that it says could be a hit at banks. Performance UL Core, launched in December, fits the needs of many bank customers, said Paul Str ...
- Research articles 2004-02-01
- IRS rules on LT-care deductions. (long-term care)
- IRS Rules On LT-Care Deductions WASHINGTON--Insurance companies can get a deduction for certain long-term care reserves under a new revenue ruling by the Internal Revenue Service. The ruling--which is scheduled to appear in the April 10, 1989, InIRS Rules On LT-Care...
- Research articles 1989-04-10
- 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
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- The House Health Reform Bill: An Abortion Funding Ban And Other Late Changes
- Editor's Note: This is Tim Jost's fourth post examining HR 3962, the House's health reform legislation. Previous posts focused on measure's health care financing reforms, the legislation's provisions for an insurance exchange and a "public option," and HR 3962's delivery system reforms and other provisions. How did HR 3962 change on Saturday night? As everyone...
- News items 2009-11-09
- MetLife launches "critical" shift in strategy: the life insurance giant will bundle critical care products in the first quarter of 2005
- The AFLAC duck and other pioneers of critical-care insurance policy options in the United States will soon be looking over their shoulders at the long shadow of MetLife, which is on verge of launching a major foray into this still-emerging market in the United States.
- Research articles 2004-10-01
- Senator Edward Kennedy: A Tireless Legislator And Courageous Man
- Editor's Note: During his 47 years in the Senate, the late Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts was a lion of U.S. health care and health policy. We at Health Affairs, along with much of the rest of America, grieve at his passing. We recently asked Democratic and Republican politicians, policy...
- News items 2009-08-27
- Steve Jobs' Preferential Treatment Highlights 'Health Gap'
- Yes, the rich are different from us. They have better health insurance. And, no matter what program President Obama gets through Congress, that "health gap" is likely to remain. The media circus that followed Apple CEO Steve Jobs's recent liver transplant highlights this. Those with buying power...
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- Place Your Bets: Federal Insurance Regulation ... Or Not?
- Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners NAIC have been patting themselves on the back, secure in the fact that they have once again beaten back attempts to put in a federal agency  to oversee their multi-trillion-dollar industry. In Chicago yesterday, Illinois Insurance Director Michael McRaith...
- Blog posts 2009-10-24
- Skip Mammograms Until 50, Says U.S. Panel: First Instance of Rationing of Care by Death Panels?
- "Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death." Hippocratic Oath, Modern Version [1] "Critical thinking always, or your patient's dead" - Victor P. Satinsky, M.D. [2] In reading an article today about the decision by a government task force that screening mammograms...
- News items 2009-11-17
- Family Files Suit against Health Net to Receive Life-Saving Care for Their Disabled Son
- OAKLAND, Calif. -- San Francisco bad faith insurance attorney Arnold Levinson, today filed a lawsuit in Alameda County on behalf of Mark and Kimberly Zembsch against Health Net, Inc., calling for the end to a long and tedious trail of refusals by the HMO to get their son Jack the...
- Research articles 2005-11-07
- Humana's Bizarre "Grassroots" Healthcare-Reform Campaign
- To paraphrase one of television's first computer-animated characters, Max Headroom, you know how to tell when a health-insurance president is lying? His lips move. Or, more to the point, he gives a talk to a local chamber of commerce explaining why healthcare costs are rising so quickly. ...
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- Op-Ed: Our Misplaced Faith in High-Tech Medicine
- By MERRILL GOOZNER The following essay appeared on the website of the Hastings Center, which is running a colloquium on the values behind health care reform. "One could make a good case that improvements in education and job creation could be a better use of limited funds than better medical care." -...
- News items 2009-10-12
- What's So Terrible about Death Panels?
- To hear the likes of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, at least in her first inflammatory salvo, health care reform would have the disabled (among them her son Trig who was born with Down's syndrome) as well as everybody's grandma and grandpa dragged in front of a nefarious "death panel"...
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
- DotW: Noble Pursuits
- It's Nobel week and the rewards and riches went to experts who've spent their careers ferreting out the secrets of telomeres medicine, ribosomes chemistry, and fiber optics physics. And then there was Barack Obama, who took home the much vaunted--and in this case highly controversial Nobel for Peace. Who needs...
- News items 2009-10-09
- Deciding Whether You're in the Right Job
- Regardless of what you do for a living, it's human nature to wonder at times if you are in the right job. Most people spend at least some of their working life questioning themselves and their careers—and speculating about whether other occupations or work situations might be more fulfilling and...
- Articles 2007-04-20
- How They Did It: Seven Intrapreneur Success Stories
- Seven successful intrapreneurs reveal what it took to launch new ventures at Kodak, Toyota, Yahoo, and other major companies. .logoimg { float:right; border:1px solid #eee; padding:4px; background:#fff;} Kodak Intrapreneur:...
- Articles 2008-04-10
- Drug Makers Gave Lobbyists an Xmas Gift -- Millions More to Lobby Obama Administration
- A New Year will bring a new president, a new FDA chief, many new drug regulations, and, possibly, health insurance reform. Mindful of the ton of major drug brands that will go off-patent in 2009, drug companies have not rested in their lobbying efforts over generics and patent issues. They...
- Blog posts 2008-12-31
- 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
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