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Seniors Skipping Necessary Dental Care
In 2017, roughly 10% of all Medicare beneficiaries did not get needed dental care because they couldn’t afford it. Traditional Medicare does not cover dental care, which means seniors have to buy it through a Medicare Advantage or other private plan.
Out-of-Pocket Costs for Supplemental Coverage a Problem for Medicare Advantage
More Medicare beneficiaries are accessing dental, vision, and hearing coverage through Medicare Advantage, but their plans are not getting adequate financial protections from out-of-pocket costs for the supplemental coverage, according to a recent Health...
Survey Team Looks at Who Owns Annuities
Education may have more of a bearing on who in the United States ends up owning annuities than income does.Managers of the Longevity Project-Morning Consult Poll have reported data supporting that idea in a collection of results from an online survey of...
Why Life Insurance is the New Stretch IRA
Advisors should move quickly with new estate planning advice for clients now that the Secure Act has passed. This law, which eliminated the stretch IRA plan for most non-spouse beneficiaries and replaced it with a 10-year rule, is already effective for...
Medicare Advantage Gains Enrollee Share
Medicare Advantage coverage providers have started the year with 24 million enrollees, or about 9.2% more than they had a year ago. The total number of people eligible for Medicare grew 6.4%, to 68 million.The Medicare Advantage program’s share of all...
