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Obamacare idiocy: Work more hours, get less health insurance

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Health insurance under COBRA was canceled for leukemia patient Sergio Branco because of a 26-cent premium shortfall.

"With life insurance, many of us just accept the fact that the premiums are set at the outset, and that once they are locked in, you are stuck.

The good news is that this isn’t always the case.

It’s actually possible for you to contact your insurance company when your risk profile changes and negotiate a better monthly premium.  This applies to term life insurance and permanent life insurance.

If you have been making positive changes in your life, consider asking for a reassessment to see if you are eligible for lower premiums." http://buff.ly/14zTwaY

This first-ever AEGON Retirement Readiness Survey looks at how people are preparing for a world in which we live longer than at any time in history.

Despite the fundamentally positive news that we're all living longer, longevity increases bring greater costs and potential reductions in retirement systems, including government and private pensions. The global economic crisis of recent years and ongoing economic uncertainty and austerity measures have put even greater pressure on these retirement systems and shifted more of the responsibility to individuals to save for their own retirement.

This first-ever AEGON Retirement Readiness Survey of 9,000 people across nine countries was conducted with the aim of understanding the prevailing attitudes toward retirement and the levels of financial readiness among the current working generation in Europe and the United States.The survey was conducted with the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies (external link)® and Cicero Consulting.

Ted Nesi covers politics and the economy in and around Rhode Island for WPRI.com.

LifeHealthPro Transamerica: Underemployed, employed draining 401(k) accounts LifeHealthPro Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies discloses this finding in the 14th annual survey, “Repairing the Damaged Nest Egg: How to Improve the Retirement...