Wohlner, like many advisors, recommends buying insurance as insurance--meaning a term policy--rather than as an investment.
The government could charge a penalty for those who choose to wait before buying insurance.
Opt out of buying insurance, the ruling states, and one simply can pay a tax.
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Second, we need to make clear as a society that buying insurance is part of individual responsibility.
Much rests of the new health exchanges, where by 2020, 20 million people will be buying insurance.
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The cost of buying insurance against default by GM increased by 10% in the credit-default swaps market.
He has devised a plausible alternative to the current open-ended, state-financed system: government-funded vouchers toward buying insurance.
The Senate plan would bar illegal immigrants from buying insurance through the exchanges.
Patients should not be pressured by dentists into buying insurance policies to cover the cost of private dental treatment.
PricewaterhouseCoopers, a consultancy, estimates that 97% of those enrolled in exchanges will be buying insurance for the first time.
Employees, and not just employers, would receive a tax deduction for buying insurance.
This could include tapping financial assets or home equity, or buying insurance (either government, private, or some combination of both).
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After Danielle's grandmother died, her mother leaned even harder, falling into debt by buying insurance policies for every family member.
Hitting, standing, doubling-down, splitting and buying insurance all enter into it, but the learning curve is a piece of cake.
Conservative health-care experts wanted to use that money to subsidize the poor in buying insurance plans on the private market.
For people buying insurance in the individual market, these additional out-of-pocket costs tend to run higher than for those covered under employer plans.
And, yes, we will set a new fee on insurance companies because they stand to gain millions more customers who are buying insurance.
Buying insurance as an "individual" is nothing less than a nightmare.
Now, he estimates 33 percent to 50 percent are buying insurance.
Few folks can afford the absurd expense of buying insurance out-of-pocket, and countless would-be entrepreneurs stay at unfulfilling jobs for this reason and this reason alone.
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Others are self-employed and can't afford it since buying insurance on your own costs you three times as much as the coverage you get from your employer.
Tenet said that co-pays and deductibles associated with buying insurance through the exchange are going to be substantially less than is the case for traditional commercial health insurance.
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But buying insurance can provide adequate liability protection and a corporate or partnership shield alone might not get you off the hook for negligence, says Buffalo lawyer Scott Friedman.
The idea is, is that right now there are a lot of people out there buying health insurance on their own, or small businesses buying health insurance on their own.
Citizens should not be able to cheat their neighbors by not buying insurance, particularly when they can afford it, and expect others to pay for their care when they need it.
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For people buying insurance in the individual market, these additional out-of-pocket costs tend to run higher than for those covered under employer plans, says Kevin Lucia, assistant professor at Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute.
The Economist has compiled a credit-crunch index, comprising a number of measures on everything from bank lending to the cost of buying insurance against default for banks, firms and sovereigns in the euro zone.
In addition, according to Louise Story at the New York Times, Goldman Sachs had hedged the exposure to the CDO it could not unload by buying insurance and, in the end, offset the losses it claims to have suffered.
Supporters argue the individual mandate is critical to the success of the legislation, because it expands the pool of people paying for insurance and ensures that healthy people do not opt out of buying insurance until they needed it.
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"When employer-provided health insurance is gone and you're looking at spending hundreds of dollars a month that you don't have on a premium, your first priority is going to be putting food on the table, not buying insurance, " says Arnott.
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