Premiums for this type of insurance may be more than some people can afford. However, there are some Medicaid programs that help pay premiums for those who can’t afford it. And, it is important to know that as a person ages, the premiums increase also. Only those individuals that are certain they can afford the premiums should consider buying it because cancellation at some future date when the coverage is needed is not desirable.

Some policies come with a guarantee that the insurance can always be renewed, not matter what your medical condition is. However, premiums are likely to increase at renewal time. Any additional coverage you purchase will also increase your premium. The only reason a person should consider buying a long term care policy is if they can afford it and if they truly need it. It may not be compatible with their financial situation; other financial needs should always be met first.

Long term care insurance rates should be looked at carefully before buying a policy. A person should diligently try to find the cheapest policy by comparing quotes from several different companies. Insurance base their rates on the circumstances of each individual person and this means that the rates your friend gets may not be apply to you. It is very easy to compare rates online and fill in the requested information. You should get quotes within minutes. Then, you can look at all the quotes you’ve received and pick out which one is the least expensive.

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All long term care policies vary in their costs and coverage levels. They assume many of the costs that are not covered by Medicare. Some provide limited home care benefits in addition to skilled nursing care. That is why all policies should be reviewed carefully before purchase. Most policies pay a fixed amount per day while a person is confined to a nursing home or is a patient in a personal care facility. This fixed amount pays all or some of what the daily charges are in these facilities. Payment of policy benefits also vary from policy to policy. Some benefits begin on the first day of a nursing home stay or when Medicare benefits end or when the required elimination periods (number of days that insured must pay before policy benefits are paid) are satisfied. Of course, policies that start paying on the first day are more expensive than policies requiring an elimination period.

All policies have restrictions attached to them. Common restrictions include prior hospitalization before skilled nursing home care is paid by the policy. Other policies require an elimination period before home care can begin. In others, a pre-existing condition can delay coverage for six months following the effective date of the policy. Some policies offer shorter waiting periods for pre-existing conditions and that is an important consideration if you are in poor health. Some policies require that a physician approve a nursing home or home care in order to assure that the coverage is not just for convenience purposes. These and many other components need to be looked at when doing a long term care insurance comparison.

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Well, you should start by shopping around and making comparisons. You can check online and go to local agents and financial planners to get recommendations. However once you come across some suitable providers, there’s a lot more to think about.

Your policy should plainly state what it will and will not cover and all the terms and conditions. So you know precisely how your policy works and what it covers. You need to know your waiting period before your benefits kick in, that way you can know if your policy really meets your needs.

Your long term care policy must not be one of those that requires you to stay in a hospital before you qualify for coverage. They will tell you that this precondition makes your premiums lower; this is a rip-off because the small amount of money that you save on the premium won’t be worth it at all. This is a way of trying to find out if you are really in need and your desire to pay – unless there is no other way out. Additionally, your policy needs to have just one deductible for the entire length of the policy. Do not purchase one that have a changing or variable deductible.

Your Long Term care policy must always remain effective once you pay the premiums. In other words your policy should not be canceled on you at any time because the insurance company decides you’re high risk or have too much long term insurance in force.

You need to have a policy that permits you to stop paying premiums without any disruption in coverage or benefits when the policy starts disbursing. You need to also have an arrangement in the policy that lets you decrease your premiums if you can no longer afford your current premium.

Your policy need to contain an inflation protection. Any good long term policy will include coverage for at least one year’s worth of coverage for a nursing home or full-time home care. If you policy don’t include these, it is not the best one for you. Your long term care policy should give you a 30 days guarantee from the time the policy is purchased. This will give you time to thoroughly read and review the policy to ensure you are getting what you really want.

Barry Mcgee

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Long term care calls for a healthy individual to offer care to a person in need. This support can be provided at home or in a facility. As a general rule, care patients want to remain at home and most times family can provide that care. However the decisive factor of where to get assistance ultimately revolves on the intensity and the total amount of care services needed.

As a matter of fact, your selection of care and service provider might make it likely for you to remain living at home instead of in a nursing home or any other type of care facilities. Residential alternatives are occasionally suitable, however. It actually depends on your needs and conditions.

When checking out long term care, it is good to meet with an independent long-term care specialist. A long-term care specialist with great reviews will show no prejudice toward any one carrier.

During your interview, you will discuss partnership plans, individual plans and group plans. You will also discover that the most crucial factor in acquiring long-term care insurance is your health. Your health is a great factor in assessing the cost when buying a long-term care package. Your premiums will also be based on your age, marital status and the types of benefits that you select.

Barry Mcgee

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However, long term care insurance isn’t for everyone, if you are wealthy enough to afford assisted living expenses out-of-pocket or if you are poor enough to qualify for Medicaid, then long term care insurance might be not be for you. However, if you do not fit into either of those two categories, long term care insurance might be an attractive option.

Many individuals rely on relatives and loved ones to provide care as they get older. But circumstances arise and you can never be sure if that unpaid caregiver will always be available to care for you.”

That is where long term care planning and insurance steps in. Should your relative or loved one not be able to continue caring for you, your need for care does not decrease any and therefore you need someone there to pick up the slack.

With the help of long-term care insurance, you have the monies to help pay for services you need in your home. Long-term care health insurance makes it possible to continue to receive care and still stay at home. At home care costs less than assisted living or nursing homes so in fact your money will last longer.

Nursing homes and assisted living centers can be pricey if you are staying just for days, let alone years and the price for long term care insurance reflects that but there are ways to save when purchasing such a policy.

There are several steps to take to ensure you are getting the best possible rate available on your long term care policy. Purchasing a joint policy with your spouse or partner, asking your employer if your company can subsidize the cost in any way, purchasing a policy that has a longer waiting (elimination) period, taking advantage of your younger age and good health also provides discounts. It doesn’t make any sense to wait until you are older and closer to needing long-term care to then consider purchasing long-term care insurance.

Do yourself and your family a good deed by getting the information on long-term care financing and planning. Knowing ahead of time where the money will come from to pay for long-term care will greatly reduce the stress and anxiety that comes with a long-term care event. With good sound long-term care planning, you won’t have to sell your home, stocks or other assets at a time when it may be very expensive considering tax consequences or a down market.

You can get great free information and articles regarding Long-Term Care and Long-Term Care insurance at http://www.LongTermCareInsurancePros.com and download a Free Ebook. You can visit his blog at http://www.LongTermCareInsurancePros.blogspot.com Dane Petchul, LTCP, CLTC is a Long-Term Care insurance Specialist. He counsels his clients in Long-Term Care Planning and insurance.

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Long term care is not the same as health insurance; health insurance provides coverage for medical expenses however purchasing a policy provides coverage if you require assisted living services, stay in a nursing home or if you require rehabilitative care.

While you don’t anticipate for the young going to a nursing home, many young people need long term care for many different reasons. An accident may make a younger person need special care that isn’t covered by any kind of health insurance and a few diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson disease can make any individual need extended care.

Purchasing a policy will provide coverage should you ever need to go to a nursing home. A year’s worth of stay in a nursing can completely wipe out most individuals savings and may kill all your retirement dreams.

Purchasing a policy needs to be regarded as safeguarding your savings and dreams and help to eliminate the stress of having your love ones carry your burden.

There are many ways to pay for long term care without stretching yourself thin. You can compare prices from various long term care insurance companies and you might be amazed about how much you can save. This saving can help you to pay for your coverage.

Barry Mcgee

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The insurance industry’s Long Term Care Policy (L.T.C. Policy), is a little sought after product since it’s inception in and about the mid fifties.

The irony of this insurance plan is that when people need it and think to buy it, it is, by then too expensive for the person to afford or the ON LY affordable plans seem to offer little coverage for their money paid.

For the ones of an age that could greatly afford these plans, they seem to not think of them, caused by their youth and good health.

When asked in surveys, a majority of people will confess one of their overridding fears is to reach the end of life and financial circumstances must send them to a nursing home to meet their end. This is mostly a reality, but not necessarily a necessity, due to this ingenius plan, let me explain:

* What is Long Term Care Insurance
* Who Should Buy L.T.C. Insurance, and finally,
* If You Need It, When Is The Best Time To Purchase it?

What is Long Term Care Insurance?

Primarily, your coverage is made up of two parts, the amount of TIME that it will pay you and HOW MUCH it will pay you when your time comes to use it! This is that period we all face and most are terrified of, when we are left with a choice of going to the nursing home because our family can’t afford to help us anymore with money.

Although it is not required that you be old (people get debilitating diseases and have horrific accidents at all ages and L.T.C. Plans will help policyholders with those as well, however the use of these policies, prior to old age, is the exception rather than the rule).

Neither Medicare or Veteran’s Benefit’s, nor regular insurance, will pay very much of anything for your issues that take a long time to heal or until your time on this earth is at an end.

Regular insurance will ONLY pay if you have a specific policy for that specific circumstance and Medicare ONLY PAYS as long as your doctor is stating you are healing or recovering or responding to their treatment. As soon as Medicare thinks, by diagnosis, that you have stopped doing any of those 3 things, they stop paying.

Who Should Buy Long Term Care Insurance?

Anyone that has an estate of at least $10,000. not including the equity in their home. The ones without that amount of money would be wise to consider not buying this policy as it probably would not save them very much in the long run.

Along with people with less than $10,000. in savings, people also rich enough to afford to pay out a minimum, $50,000. per year ( for a minimum 4 year period) for each individual and not be financially impacted, probably shouldn’t worry about this insurance.

If You Need It, When Is The Best Time To Purchase it?

Quality Long Term Care Policies should be purchased at your earliest convenience. The reasoning behind this is very simple – the earlier, the better and the cheaper.

The younger you are when you purchase it, the companies realize (as do you) your youth, your virility, your chance of better heath and did I mention your youth! For this they offer you, not only better premiums, but also better coverage for when you will be able to use it.

As importantly, all L.T.C. policies exclude everyone that has “pre-existing conditions”, i.e., diabetes, heart problems, arthritis, etc.. Once you have these and many other ailments, the insurance companies won’t write (accept) you.

So pay attention, the answers to these 3 questions are ones that can make the difference in you either living at YOUR HOME with round the clock nursing or laying in THEIR HOME (the nursing care facility of the government’s choice with as little care as they can afford to give you).

Ray Morgan is a multifaceted semi-retired human being and writing articles on personally interesting and economic issues of his times. More can be learned at: http://www.TheRWM.com/.

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In 2004 she had a series of strokes that left her unable to live by herself any longer. Her niece and I decided we had to put her into a convalescent home because she no longer knew where she was. That was in 2004 when she was 91 years old. Today she sleeps 20 hours a day and for the last three years she has not known any of her friends or family.

This woman had approximately $300,000 in bonds and CD’s. Between the interest and her social security her income was about $2500 per month. Today we have enough money left to carry her through December 2009. After that we will probably have to sell her home which was supposed to go to her nieces.

Why do I share this story? Because if this woman had purchased LTC (long term care) insurance, she would not have gone through an entire lifetime of savings and investments. This story is not an aberration. It is something insurance agents, friends and family experience every day. You probably have experienced it as well. Perhaps you or a sibling is caring for a parent or spouse because there is no way of paying for someone else to do so.

The fact is LTC (long term care) insurance will do more to keep you and your family from becoming destitute than any other insurance I can think of. LTC (long term care) is not covered by Medi-Care and unless you are insured you will need to spend down your entire estate to qualify for Medi-Cal.

Do your family a favor today. Call your insurance agent and find out more about Long Term Care Insurance. You won’t regret it.

David Ion

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