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Strategies & Market Trends : Dividend investing for retirement -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JimisJim who wrote (24764)	6/1/2016 10:25:34 PM
From: Steve Felix	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34328

"divvy growth still waaaaay above inflation -- official or otherwise" Interesting point, but would differ greatly by individual imho. For four years, my youngest daughters' college tuition was our largest single expense. Her last semester cost 50% more than her first semester four years earlier. For those that need to buy health insurance, if eligible for subsidies, nominal, if not, probably painful. Obamacare worries: Largest Texas insurer asks for 60 percent price hike msn.com "Earlier this week, North Carolina's largest insurer said it will seek an average increase of 18.8 percent. A recent analysis of nine states by the consulting firm Avalere Health found that average premium increases for the most popular kind of plan ranged from 5 percent in Washington state to 44 percent in Vermont." "Millions of customers will be shielded from price hikes by government subsidies, which typically cover more than 70 percent of the premiums. People who don't have access to a workplace plan can buy a policy directly on the health law's marketplaces. But many consumers aren't eligible for the income-based subsidies and get no such protection. That demographic includes business owners, self-employed people and early retirees."