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Hi, everyone and welcome back to another episode of Ready for Retirement.

I'm your host, James Cannell.

And today we are continuing our financial tune-up series.

After a year of chaos and a year of change for a lot of people, a lot of disruption for a lot of people, really probably everyone, I should say. This is a great time to make sure

that your finances are in order. Every time is a great time to make sure your finances

in order, but no time like this where there's been so much change and so much that has

gone differently than most people would have expected.

So what we're doing today is this is the third episode in our four-part series, the financial tune-up series. Today what we're going to be talking about is what issues should I consider,

what issues should you consider as you review your different insurance policies? We'll talk

about health insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and long-term

care insurance. And just like the other two episodes prior to this and like the episode next week,

all of these checklists and sheet sheets will be available on the Ready for Retirement web page.

Readyforretirement.co, go to the podcast page and find today's episode, and there will be a checklist that you can download

that has everything that we'd be going over today, just as we did for the last couple of episodes.

So let's look at this. The first thing that we should always look at with insurance is what's

the need for insurance? Well, insurance is there because it protects us against things that probably

won't happen,

but if they do happen, could have a potentially devastating impact upon us financially.

So those things are not always fun to talk about, but there could be an extreme health event.

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