Archives for September 2015

You Can Visit My New Yelp Page!

September 30, 2015 by Honey Leveen Leave a Comment

The press has been publicizing Yelp’s new role helping the public find medical professionals they can trust. Other professionals are establishing Yelp pages, too.

I like the idea of knowing what other people think before I contact a professional.

I like to think I’m an “early adapter”.

In this spirit, I now have a Yelp page.

The rules are that I am not supposed to solicit your reviews, so I am not asking you to visit my Yelp page and review me. However, if you are moved to do so, I’ll be grateful to you!

Your Wife is Going to Outlive You

September 18, 2015 by Honey Leveen Leave a Comment

Husbands: expect your wife to survive you, reports the September 4, 2015 New York Times. Do not be evasive when your wife wants to discuss finances and long-term care (LTC) in your final years. Quit giving us excuses like “I won’t need long-term care”, “I’ll just kill myself”, “I’ll just self-insure”, or “my wife will take care of me.” My experience has been that men are far more likely than women to say nonsensical stuff like this.

Smart women: when your husband tries to avoid an honest discussion of end-of-life plans, please assert yourselves. Go to marriage counseling or a financial planner before you acquiesce to his complacency and inability to envision what can happen if you’re not prepared. I suggest your husband’s unwillingness to discuss such matters is already adding stress to your marriage. Challenge him on this, for your own good and that of your family.

I know plenty of people who regret not buying LTCi when they had the chance to. Instead, perhaps they took a very expensive trip instead of taking more of a budget-wise trip and choosing reasonable LTCi premiums.

I have plenty of clients who’ve collected on the LTCi I sold them and are grateful to me for doing so.

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Get your wills, powers of attorney, and other end-of-life documents in order now. Make sure your appointed beneficiaries are current. Store such documents in a safe, accessible place. I also recommend uploading them to The Cloud (I use www.dropbox.com) and sharing these documents with those you most trust.

New LTCi White Paper and Executive Summary Published!

September 16, 2015 by Honey Leveen Leave a Comment

The National Association of Health Underwriters (NAHU) is the leading professional trade association for health insurance agents, brokers and consultants, and represents more than 100,000 benefit specialists nationally. NAHU is highly regarded and trusted on “The Hill”.

I’m very proud to be involved with NAHU. In July, 2015, I stepped down as chair of NAHU’s LTC Advisory Committee. I continue to serve and be actively involved.

I’m even more proud to announce NAHU has now taken an official stance on long-term care reform with just published, publically available LTC White and Executive Summary papers.

These papers offer good common-sense ideas on how to preserve Medicaid for the truly needy, and how to encourage more Americans to prepare responsibly and properly for their long-term care. They will be included in NAHU’s political advocacy.

I worked on the completion of both papers, but I believe my colleagues Claude Thau, Sally Leimbach, John Parker, Joe Lesson and Linda Thalheimer were tireless and played more essential, critical roles. We also had excellent support from Dan Sampson on NAHU’s staff.

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You Can Visit My New Yelp Page!

Your Wife is Going to Outlive You

New LTCi White Paper and Executive Summary Published!

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