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How Saving Can Also Lead to Good Health

Saving Cents With Sense

While saving money can improve your peace of mind and lead to good health as a result, it can also help you afford medical treatment when it’s needed. Most people find medical treatment to be un-affordable unless they have health insurance to help them cover the costs.

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Why We Chose Medi-Share, an affordable solution to traditional health insurance

Family Balance Sheet

Health insurance is a touchy subject and everyone has a different point of view depending on their own life experience. For us, health insurance became a thorn in our side many years ago when I left a corporate job with benefits for a life of self-employment. We were basically buying catastrophic insurance.

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Are You Financially Ready For Kids?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

According to an article that was published on Investment News last June, it costs approximately $235,000 to raise a child and that’s not even counting their college tuition ! They are miracles, they are blessings and something else that they are is very expensive. What’s My Living Situation? .

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3 Employer Benefits You Must Take Advantage Of

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

In my last article we talked about getting the most out of your primary employer. Readers: Aside from health insurance, what benefits to you take advantage of? The majority of us are working jobs we’d rather not be working for a company we’d rather not be working for. I actually love my job and my company.

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Carnival of Financial Planning – Money Management Edition #241 – June 15, 2012

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Insurance and Risk Mac Hildebrand presents What is catastrophic health insurance coverage? posted at Insurance Providers , saying, “From routine trips to the doctor to extended hospital stays, the average health care bill is $8,000 per year. This expense is usually well worth the trade.

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Tax Reform – What it Means for Employees

For the Mommas

This means persons will no longer be required to “secure health insurance or pay a penalty.” If healthy individuals will choose not to have coverage with the elimination of the individual mandate, the balance of those who are insured will tip towards those who are sick, which will increase the cost of healthcare overall.)

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