Quick Money Tips: Healthcare Spending Around the World

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In today’s edition, we look at a timely topic: healthcare. We look at how we rank as a nation when compared to the price of healthcare in other countries (i.e. healthcare spending around the world). We also do some fact checking on the politically-charged assertions about Obamacare’s impact on your ability to keep your current plan.

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Healthcare Spending Around the World, Country by Country — With all of the talk about healthcare in the US, it’s interesting to see how we stack up next to everyone else in the world. Do you know which country has the lowest amount of healthcare spending in the world? Which country has more doctors? The answers might surprise you.

Fact Check: On Keeping Your Current Health Plan — USA Today covers what both Obama and Romney are asserting and compares them to the “facts”. Prediction: the term ‘Obamacare’ will be referenced one million times during the Presidential debates this Fall.

How to Be a Conservative Investor – Jeremy Vohwinkle from GenX Finance breaks down the difference between “conservative investing” and “no-risk investing” and tips for becoming a conservative investor. You don’t have to be either all stocks or all cash. The results for bonds over the last ten years will likely surprise you.

How Does Human Capital Affect Asset Allocation? — Do you know the difference between “human” capital and “financial” capital? The Oblivious Investor says, “When considering how much risk to take on in your portfolio, you should consider how much risk you’re already taking on via your human capital.”

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From Woman to Girl, An Introduction to Finance — A pilot program in 3 Connecticut schools teaches a class targeted at inciting teenage girls to contemplate a career in finance. It also includes a mentoring program pairing girls with a woman who works in finance.

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Last Edited: April 1, 2013 @ 11:45 pm
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Mac Hildebrand
Mac Hildebrand

Good articles about healthcare and health plans and keen observation that Obamacare will be the most-mentioned word in debates coming up (or at least the word evoking the most passion one way or the other!). I appreciate that both of those articles were informative, fact-based, and didn't try to say everything that could ever be said about the subject in a single bound. Thanks for providing material that will encourage people to do further research for themselves! It was probably not easy to sort through the sea of information on this topic to find suitable information for your readers.

 

The GenX Finance piece was also a great article based on well-organized data rather than speculation. It's good to see articles circulating and getting exposure that have objective substance to them.

Philip Taylor
Philip Taylor moderator

 @Mac Hildebrand Thanks, Mac. We've been trying to improve the roundup post so that it only includes the best of the best. Thanks for noticing. The GenX piece was actually an old post of his that I recently discovered. Gave me some great perspective.

Mac Hildebrand
Mac Hildebrand

 @Philip Taylor Thank you! The roundups take some research, and sometimes its harder to know the readers' response, so we want to let you know the quality and effort was easily noticeable.