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Health Care Tax Deductions for 2011

November 29th, 2011 by Jade Gould | Tags: Health Care, Tax

Every year as you start preparing for the tax season you may list all of the things that you can deduct from your taxes. This year don’t forget to include your out-of-pocket health care expenses. Whether you have group or individual health insurance, any out-of-pocket cost that you absorb throughout the year should be considered. [...]

Compensation referral fees ban vow

November 25th, 2011 by Jade Gould | Tags: Ban, Referral Fees

The payment of referral fees in personal injury cases will be banned in a bid to tackle rising insurance costs, the Government said today. Justice Minister Jonathan Djanogly said the no-win, no-fee system was “pushing us into a compensation culture in which middle men make a tidy profit which the rest of us end up [...]

Ohio Lieutenant Governor and Department of Insurance Director   Making decisions about health care coverage and your insurance needs are some of the toughest and often most complicated choices Ohioans face.  Those decisions are especially important for Medicare beneficiaries, who must consider many options and what those options mean to household budgets.  With Medicare’s Annual [...]

      The Obama Administration has finally bowed to the inevitable and acknowledged that it cant figure out any way to implement its fatally-flawed government program for voluntary, long-term care insurance. Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND) had labeled the so-called CLASS Act (Community Living Assistance Services and Support), “a Ponzi scheme of the [...]