In the area of planning for your retirement, there are a number of rules of thumb that commonly appear in articles and seminars. Let’s test four of the more common guidelines to determine their worth in retirement planning.
The findings of a new study of long-term care insurance policy claims should be shared with married couples urges the American Association for Long-Term Care Insurance (AALTCI). With so many couples, there s often one spouse who is resistant, usually the husband, explains Jesse Slome, director of the long-term care insurance organization. This new information will help those who have doubts understand the significant consequences and the benefits of this important protection.
Slome was sharing data from a recently released study by Milliman Actuarial. When one spouse has a long-term care claim, the odds of a claim by the second spouse is four times higher than would normally be expected, Slome shared with a group of long-term care insurance sales professionals. Data comes from Milliman s Is Your Spouse Contagious study.
Dialectic
Brainwashing is the most conservative form of information control because it uses force to change minds. Propaganda, as we have seen in my last article, can be used by both conservatives and liberals. Both forms of entertainment are really politically apathetic, as they try to distract and provide escape from political and economic realities. Rhetoric is the essence of liberal viewpoints dating all the way back to debate among the classical Greeks. Dialectic was also used among the Greeks. It was used for conservative purposes by Plato and later by Hegel while Marx used dialectic to understand capitalism along with human history.