Individual or Family Health Insurance
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Health Savings Accounts:
Health Savings Accounts can be described as a type of Individual
Retirement Account that allows you to take early distributions for IRS
approved medical expenses.
Businesses and individuals alike will receive enhanced
benefits under these plans,
including easing the way to switching from
traditional IRC §125 & §105 plans to High
Deductible Health Plans that have an Health Savings Account component.
The following publications contain the latest and most important
information about deciding whether this special situation applies to
you. Call for more information or to discuss your situation.
IRS Publication 502:
Medical and Dental
Expenses
IRS Publication 969: Health Savings Accounts and
other Tax-Favored Health Plans
*not available in all states
HEALTH INSURANCE FACTS
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According to Medicare 14% of medical costs are administrative, 30% goes to hospitals and 30% goes to doctors. Eliminating insurance companies would do little to reduce the cost of our health care system as ideal administrative costs should be nearer 8% according to McKinsey Global, an
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The United States spent 17% of Gross Domestic Product, $2.6 Trillion, on health care twice as much as the next most expensive country and over three times what Germany, Japan, France, Austria et al spent even though we don't cover everybody and their systems do.
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According to the Organization for Economic and Community Development, whose membership is comprised of the 30 largest industrialized nations, the United States' health care system ranked 37th in terms of overall quality behind some African countries.
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There were five people paying taxes for every person receiving Social Security and Medicare. By 2030 there will only be two.
If you don't think we need health care reform then re-read the above. Insurance reform is not the same thing as health care reform. We can deal with it now and put over $1 TRILLION back into our economy, hopefully investing in our future, or we can keep living it up now and regret it later.
