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New Rules Certain to Impact Your Financial Planning and Life Insurance Strategy

Posted on by Karla Sullivan
New Rules Certain to Impact Your Financial Planning and Life Insurance Strategy

Should you buy life insurance to bolster or provide for your retirement savings? Recent news from the Department of Labor about a fiduciary rule scheduled to take effect on June 9 will impact your financial planning, so the simple answer is likely “yes.” Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta says that, while the Trump administration used an executive order to delay the rule, it’s now back on the table and could be implemented. Acosta wrote an op-ed…

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Heartland Institute Editors and Policy Advisors Weigh In On Obamacare Repeal

Posted on by Todd Halterman
Heartland Institute Editors and Policy Advisors Weigh In On Obamacare Repeal

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Monday announced the Senate leadership is giving up on its latest attempt to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) simultaneously because the leadership’s proposed bill, the Better Care Reconciliation Act, lacks the votes to succeed. McConnell said he will instead seek a vote on a repeal of Obamacare with a two-year delay “to provide for a stable transition period to a patient-centered health care system that…

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Changes to the Affordable Care Act

Posted on by Todd Halterman
Changes to the Affordable Care Act

Worried About Changes to the Affordable Care Act? So is the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) who serve as a watchdog for consumers in their insurance investments. The first rollout of the Trump administration’s bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act won’t pass muster, at least according to the GOP commissioner in charge of state health regulation. “It ultimately will not be, in my opinion, the proposal that eventually passes – if something passes,”…

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Reversing the Affordable Care Act

Posted on by Todd Halterman
Reversing the Affordable Care Act

As the rubber meets the road for the new Trump administration on their promise to wipe out “Obamacare,” reversing the Affordable Care Act has hit a wall. Current regulations and their take on preexisting conditions are anathema to most Republicans and conservatives, and many are disappointed with other elements of the newest plan. Ways The GOP Health Bill Would Reverse Course From The ACA Critics say the new plan they’ve dubbed ‘Republicare’ will almost certainly…

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