Way back in March, I mentioned that I was beginning to look into making some adjustments and doing some price checking. Somewhere in between there and here, life got in the way and I wasn’t able to get it done as quickly as I would have liked. I’ve finally caught up to it though and [...]
It struck me the other night, as I was reading a book and came upon a section on Ponzi Schemes, that insurance companies are borderline ponzi’s themselves. The definition of a ponzi scheme is when the broker/banker/agent takes money and promises a unusually high return and then pays said return from the incoming money from [...]
No matter what your point of view on the health care reform bill, there’s a pretty good chance that it will be law for at least a little while. So, it makes sense to try and digest all the stuff that is in it. I don’t know about you, but I don’t intend to read [...]
I’m not an expert on health care, health insurance, and certainly not on the way that government works. But, I like to think that I have some modicum of common sense. So, it’s with great trepidation that I see this health care bill. My biggest concern is the cost of health insurance. My company covers [...]
I’m making this post in part to share with you, but also to make a reminder for myself of the things that I need to look into. One of the mistakes that I and many other people make is not shopping around enough. While you may have found the best deal when you bought something, [...]
Last update, I told you that the COBRA health insurance plan premium went through the roof and we were deciding whether to continue paying for it, or to switch over to the plan that I get at work. In the end, we decided to remain on the COBRA plan. The difference was about $350 a [...]
It would appear that the saga is far from over. (If you want the full story, you can read part 1 of My Wife Quit Her Job) Just when you think you can’t handle any more of a challenge, a little more gets thrown on top. Obviously, God knows we can handle more. Since my [...]
My wife and I are thinking of selling our house and buying something a bit bigger. The house we are in is a little small for our expanding family. It could be done, but not very comfortably. In that process, we started our research by visiting with a loan officer to run some numbers and [...]
