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New Baby? Time to Update Your Estate Plan

by heytaJul 04, 2023

We often have clients ask us when the best time to do their estate plan is and the answer is usually, right now! This is especially true for people turning 18 years old, people who don’t have a plan, and people who have had recent life changes.

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One event that should trigger you to meet with an estate planning attorney is a new baby. When you are expanding your family,

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Health insurance for 600,000 Americans at stake in debt ceiling debate

by heytaMay 24, 2023

The health insurance of 600,000 Americans is hanging in the balance as part of last-minute negotiations to raise the US debt ceiling.

House Republicans are pushing to include beefed-up work requirements for recipients of federal welfare — now called Temporary Assistance for Needy Families — the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Medicaid as part of a debt ceiling deal with the White House.

“We can’t be spending more money next year. We have to spend less than we spent the year before. It’s pretty easy,” Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Friday.

Under the GOP proposal, 600,000 Americans — mostly

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I Don’t Have an Estate Plan…Right?

by heytaApr 29, 2023

Whether or not you have a written estate plan, you do have an estate plan. The laws of the state in which you reside will make decisions about your estate if you do not have a written plan.

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If you don’t have a written estate plan, it is essential to know what the intestacy laws of your state are so that you know what will happen to your assets if

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‘This Is the American Dream!’

by heytaMar 13, 2023

Ke Huy Quan, a child star who returned to the spotlight after decades for “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” won the Oscar for best supporting actor.

Earning the first standing ovation of the night, Quan took the stage and shouted out his 84-year-old mother, who was watching at home. “Mom, I just won an Oscar!”

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For Quan, the victory marks an especially emotional coda to awards season. He rose to fame before his teenage years, playing Harrison Ford’s sidekick in 1984’s “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” and appearing in 1985’s “The Goonies.” But Quan quit

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Senator Cruz: High health-care premiums, worker shortage hurting small businesses | National

by heytaMar 10, 2023

(The Center Square) – US Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, argued for the need to bring down health-care premiums to help small businesses stay competitive during a Wednesday forum in Washington DC

Small businesses have struggled since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and one of the ways they are trying to stay afloat is by competing with larger companies through competitive health insurance. However, high inflation rates have led to rising health-care premiums, which Cruz hopes to address.

“Health care is certainly an area where we’ve seen inflation for a long time,” Cruz said during the Goldman Sachs 10,000 small

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How to lose weight fast and easy

by heytaMar 05, 2023

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Do you wonder how to lose weight quickly and easily without the headache of counting calories day in and day out?

As you navigate a healthier lifestyle you will definitely find that losing weight and staying fit is much easier when you have the proper motivation and tools to do so, which is why I wanted to search through Amazons and help outline the best health products for people trying to live a healthier lifestyle.

Finding the best products for your weight loss journey can be challenging

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Hospitalized patients can bring home infections

by heytaJan 29, 2023

in the journals

Clostridioides difficile (C. diff), a bacterium that can potentially cause diarrhea and colitis, commonly colonizes people who are hospitalized. New research suggests that even if these individuals never had symptoms and were never diagnosed with C. diff during their hospital stay, they could still bring the bacterium home and expose family members.

Using medical insurance data, researchers looked at households with at least two people on the same insurance plan and identified people who had hospital stays but were not diagnosed with C. diff. They discovered that once these individuals returned home,

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Health insurance as a fuel for medical progress

by heytaJan 18, 2023

Newswise — There is a long-standing debate on whether rolling out health insurance toward high levels of coverage is desirable. For countries with non-existent or only patchy coverage, expanding health insurance would certainly be beneficial. However, in high-income settings where basic coverage is already granted the question remains open.

In a collaborative effort, IIASA Economic Frontiers Program Director, Michael Kuhn, and Ivan Frankovic, now an economist at the Deutsche Bundesbank, analyzed the macroeconomic impact of health insurance expansion in the United States between 1965 and 2005. The study, which has been published in the Journal of Health Economics, used an

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