Financials: Everything You Should Know About Insurance, Healthcare Coverage, and Medicare
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2017
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The team talks about how the insurance industry works and how health insurance differs substantially from other types of insurance. With information about evaluating supplemental health insurance policies, planning for Medicare at age 65, and managing the transition from work-related coverage to Medicare, this program will tell you what you need in order to make a more informed decision for your financial and health situation
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:07.0 | It's Monday, September 18th. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Christine Harjus filling in for Gabi Lopera on this week's financial show. |
| 0:13.0 | Motley Fool personal finance expert Dan Kapplinger is joining me via Skype. |
| 0:16.8 | Dan, how's it going? |
| 0:18.2 | I'm good, Christine. |
| 0:19.0 | How are you doing it? |
| 0:20.0 | I am doing great. |
| 0:20.9 | I am preparing to leave for Greece in a couple of days and I'm super excited. |
| 0:25.0 | Oh that is awesome. I tell you it's much much better to be on the about to leave side of a vacation |
| 0:31.6 | than they just got back from vacation which is kind of |
| 0:35.1 | where I still am a couple of weeks after coming back from Europe so yeah I hope you have a |
| 0:39.6 | good trip you're still digging out just a a little bit. Yeah, just about there though. |
| 0:45.0 | Well, I know I'll have that to look forward to in a couple of weeks myself. |
| 0:48.0 | So anyway, before I leave, today's show is going to walk our listeners through the insurance |
| 0:55.2 | industry how it works some interesting quirks about it and some practical advice |
| 0:59.3 | so that you all can make the best decisions when it comes to your own insurance. |
| 1:03.4 | Dan do you want to kick us off with a high-level overview of the industry? |
| 1:06.6 | Yeah, so basically the way that the insurance industry works is that people face |
| 1:12.4 | different kinds of risks. Most of the time a lot of the |
| 1:15.7 | risks that you face are things that don't happen that often but if they do there's a |
| 1:20.0 | really big consequence something like if there's a hurricane then my house might be |
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