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Financing A Nursing Home Stay

Is Long Term Care Insurance a Good Idea?

by Jerrold Bartholomew March 4, 2008

This article provides some preliminary answers to an important question for today’s retirees and elderly: Is long term care insurance a good idea?
In general, I advise clients to get long term care insurance. The effects of being unprepared for this financial tsunami are too overwhelming to do otherwise. But be careful and be informed.
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Long Term Care Insurance for Everyone?

by Jerrold Bartholomew March 1, 2008

States have begun to encourage all citizens to obtain long term care insurance as part of the Deficit Reduction Act. No one likes paying premiums on insurance, but for those of modest means, the premiums are especially burdensome and the benefits, considering that Medicaid is available when the assets run out, negligible. According to this [...]

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