Continuing Case: Cory and Tisha Dumont
Part 3:
Protecting yourself with insurance
1. Using the earnings multiple approach would result in the following life insurance calculations for Cory and Tisha.
Cory’s needs = $38,000 x (1 – 0.22) x 12.46 = $369,314
Tisha's needs = $46,000 x (1 – 0.22) x 12.46 = $447,065 Cory currently has $76,000 (2 x $38,000) of term life insurance through his employer. Consequently, Cory should consider purchasing approximately $293,000 of additional life insurance coverage. Tisha has $69,000 of term insurance through her employer, as well as a whole life policy of $50,000. She should consider purchasing an additional $328,000 of life insurance coverage ($447,065 – $119,000). While Tisha or Cory
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5. Life insurance is meant to provide funds to replace a breadwinner's to protect and support dependents. Chad and Haley are dependents, not income providers. Therefore, the purchase of life insurance is unnecessary and not recommended. The Dumonts should use the money they would spend on policies for the children to increase their own coverage.
The claim that Chad and Haley would always be insured is only relevant if (1) the Dumonts continue the premium payments and (2) there is a high probability, based on family health history, that Chad or Haley will contract cancer, diabetes, or heart disease. Otherwise, they will be eligible for insurance in the future and there is no need for “permanent” coverage starting at this young age.
6. As a “comprehensive major medical insurance policy,” the Dumonts’ coverage includes basic health insurance for hospital, surgical, and physician expense needs, as well as major medical expense coverage. The latter is very important to extend the basic coverage to protect the Dumonts from the financial effects of a catastrophic illness or accident. The policy has a very adequate lifetime cap of $3,000,000 per insured. The Dumonts should continually analyze the health plans from both employers to determine which offers the best overall plan. But, the annual coinsurance, stop-loss amount, and family
Insurance is a critical part in the health care of Americans that would use it for life threatening, unaffordable and spontaneous health issues. But instead insurance has created substantial problem because it is being utilized as a payment system for everyday primary health care and not to cure
Wife shall provide a Term Life Insurance Policy which names the two (2) minor children as beneficiaries thereof in an amount of no less than $75,000 and shall provide proof to the Husband of the life insurance policy yearly.
once they tried to use for coverage through Marcia's job, they were turned down due to Matthew's pre-existing condition. Matthew finally qualified for coverage through incapacity; however Mark had to wish a lower-paying job to be eligible for coverage (Health Security 6). Hence, increasing immobility of policies is significant to reform. Not ought to be compelled to a private lose quantity with the loss of employment. Secondly, insurance suppliers have to be compelled to stop cherry-picking people. individuals mustn't be denied health care coverage as a results of they need been sick. Denial of amount alone forces these patients to use pricey space services instead of getting regular treatment. Costs} ar just passed on to the insured patients at intervals the style of higher prices (U.S. Health 18). Insuring the sick could cause the healthy person's premiums to travel up, however everybody can have the nice issue regarding the peace of mind that medical coverage can forever be accessible.
During the recession of economic, Susan Pamela, a single fifty-six years old woman who lived in suburb of Ohio, was working in a cleaning company as dustman. Due to the recession, both of her working hours and wage was cut by the company, just like most of the low-paid Laborers in this period. What’s worse, her health insurance company decided to raise het insurance premiums simultaneously because with the reason of her potential health risk. As a single older woman, Susan do care about the guarantee of insurance. Bur she already had no ability to maintain her insurance. The low salary can only support the basic need of her life, excluding the high insurance premiums. However,
Last year, Mr. Smith was involved in an automobile accident, severely injuring his legs. As a part of a long-term rehabilitation process, his physician prescribes a daily routine of swimming. Because there is not readily available public facility nearby, Mr. Smith purchases a house with a pool for $175,000. Replacing the pool would cost $20,000. The existing pool increases the fair market value of the house by $8,000. Mr. Smith spends $500 maintaining the pool and $1,800 in other medical expenses. Mr. Smith wants to know the total amount of medical expenses that he may claim in the current year. His AGI is $60,000.
8. Proceeds are received from a life insurance company because of the death of a key officer.
Q: Ms. Smith, the total cost of your life care plan for Mr. Turner is $3,465,322. That’s a tremendous amount of money, isn’t it?
This paper will discuss the preexisting condition Insurance Plan Program and its effects on the healthcare and health insurance market as well as the Segway into the elimination of Pre-existing condition clauses for insurances as found in section 2704 of the public health service Act. The remainder of this paper is organized as follows: Section 1 discusses Why the policy was enacted, section 2 discusses the economic environment previous to the PCIPP, section 3 Evidence supporting a market failure in the insurance industry, section 4 discusses how the plan was accepted and how it is working, section 5 discusses future implications, and section 6 discusses the conclusion
Throughout the nineteenth century, there was scarcely a market for health insurance in the United States. One advantage is that they have experience in other states, particularly
Bruce and Faith Johnston are 64 and 58 respectively and plan to retire within the next 2 years. They have a combined net worth of $456,990 and if they accomplish their goals of paying off their outstanding debt and their mortgage, their net worth will increase. Their current monthly income sums to $5,666 and their total monthly expenses totals to around $4,500 with $1,000 of it as expenses for subsidizing living expenses for their two children as a result of a “late parenthood”. With the idea of retiring within the next two years, their main source of income following retirement is the $235,000 in Bruce’s company profit sharing plan, and the potential inheritance of $150,000 from Faith’s father.
Imagine investing in a medical insurance plan that only partially pays employee’s claims, pays years after employees seek care or fails to pay claims altogether. Do you see yourself continuing with the plan? That’s no different than maintaining a 401k process that will not serve the plan’s ultimate purpose – to help prepare participants for a confident retirement.
This policy covers hospitalization expenses which intends to provide coverage to people as well as their family in the eventuality of high treatment costs for any injury or disease related contingencies like hospitalization, organ transplantation etc. on the other hand , people opt for a compulsory deductible amount, which their bear either through existing health coverage or through own/other sources. The policy acts as an additional cover over and above the deductible amount. The policy therefore addresses galloping medical inflation at a very reasonable
After retirement, she wants to live a life style that will cost about $35,000 per year, payable at the beginning of each year. Her planning horizon is 30 years (i.e. she does not expect to live longer than age 95). Assume the rate of interest is 5%, all investments are made at the end of the year, and all expenses are payable at the beginning of the year. (a) How much money will she have when she retires at 65? (4 marks) (b) How much money does she need at age 65 to support her post-retirement years? (4 marks) (c) If her post-retirement expenses start as stated above at $35,000 per year but increase at the expected rate of inflation of 2% per year, how much money does she need at age 65 to support her retirement? (5 marks) (d) To reach the amount found in part (c) she is planning to invest $X this year, and increases this amount every year at the rate of 3% per year, what is this amount X? (5 marks) Answer (a) She will have FV = PMT x FVAF(5%, 40 years) = $603,998.87 (b) She will need PV of Annuity Due: PV = PMT x PVAF(5%, 30 years) x (1.05) = $564,937.58 (c) She will need PV of Growth Annuity Due: PV = [(35,000)(1.05)/(5% - 2%)] x [1 - (1.02/1.05)30] = $711,592.43 (d) She needs to have the amount calculated in (c), i.e. $711,592.43: [(X)/(.05-.03)] x [(1.05)40 - (1.03)40] = 711,592.43 X = $3,767.08
Life Cover: This policy provides a life insurance cover so that the family remains financially protected in the absence of the life insured
showed Mrs. Carter the job estimation sheet, it laid out the numbers showing that Lambeth could not do the job for less than $1,625. Right there Lambeth would lose $125 since Mrs. Carter was not willing to pay any more than $1,500, not to mention their $275 profit. If the company would have taken the job for $1,500, instead of $1,900, they would have lost a total of $400.