Simplifying and understanding health care in America. In 2004, Congress created Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) with the intention of putting the brakes on runaway health care costs. The concept was simple: Get people to start thinking about health care expenses the same way they think about other goods and services they buy. But what started as simple idea has proven to be difficult for many to understand and implement. This book simplifies HSAs and their corresponding HDHPs for business owners and managers alike. • Covers how HSAs and HDHPs work, the pros and cons of them, how to install them, strategies for getting the most out of them, and how paychecks and taxes are affected • U.S. health care costs were nearly $1.7 trillion in 2003. • According to a national survey, 81% of large and 78% of small companies are considering implementing HSAs by 2006

Written by a practicing emergency physician, The White Coat Investor is a high-yield manual that specifically deals with the financial issues facing medical students, residents, physicians, dentists, and similar high-income professionals. Doctors are highly-educated and extensively trained at making difficult diagnoses and performing life saving procedures. However, they receive little to no training in business, personal finance, investing, insurance, taxes, estate planning, and asset protection. This book fills in the gaps and will teach you to use your high income to escape from your student loans, provide for your family, build wealth, and stop getting ripped off by unscrupulous financial professionals. Straight talk and clear explanations allow the book to be easily digested by a novice to the subject matter yet the book also contains advanced concepts specific to physicians you won't find in other financial books. This book will teach you how to: Graduate from medical school with as little debt as possible Escape from student loans within two to five years of residency graduation Purchase the right types and amounts of insurance Decide when to buy a house and how much to spend on it Learn to invest in a sensible, low-cost and effective manner with or without the assistance of an advisor Avoid investments which are designed to be sold, not bought Select advisors who give great service and advice at a fair price Become a millionaire within five to ten years of residency graduation Use a "Backdoor Roth IRA" and "Stealth IRA" to boost your retirement funds and decrease your taxes Protect your hard-won assets from professional and personal lawsuits Avoid estate taxes, avoid probate, and ensure your children and your money go where you want when you die Minimize your tax burden, keeping more of your hard-earned money Decide between an employee job and an independent contractor job Choose between sole proprietorship, Limited Liability Company, S Corporation, and C Corporation Take a look at the first pages of the book by clicking on the Look Inside feature Praise For The White Coat Investor "Much of my financial planning practice is helping doctors to correct mistakes that reading this book would have avoided in the first place." - Allan S. Roth, MBA, CPA, CFP(R), Author of How a Second Grader Beats Wall Street "Jim Dahle has done a lot of thinking about the peculiar financial problems facing physicians, and you, lucky reader, are about to reap the bounty of both his experience and his research." - William J. Bernstein, MD, Author of The Investor's Manifesto and seven other investing books "This book should be in every career counselor's office and delivered with every medical degree." - Rick Van Ness, Author of Common Sense Investing "The White Coat Investor provides an expert consult for your finances. I now feel confident I can be a millionaire at 40 without feeling like a jerk." - Joe Jones, DO "Jim Dahle has done for physician financial illiteracy what penicillin did for neurosyphilis." - Dennis Bethel, MD "An excellent practical personal finance guide for physicians in training and in practice from a non biased source we can actually trust." - Greg E Wilde, M.D Scroll up, click the buy button, and get started today!

Many people mistakenly believe that Social Security (SS) will pay for all or most of their retire. needs, but the fact is, since its inception, SS has provided little protection. A comfortable retire. usually requires SS, pensions, personal savings & invest. The key tool for making a secure retire. a reality is financial planning. It will help clarify your retire. goals as well as other financial goals you want to ¿buy¿ along the way. It will show you how to manage your money so you can afford today¿s needs yet still fund tomorrow¿s. You¿ll learn how to save your money to make it work for you & how to protect it so it will be there when you need it. Explains how you can take the best advantage of retire. plans at work, & what to do if you¿re on your own. Illustrations.

This book is the owner's manual that did not come with your HSA. Health Savings Accounts are becoming a more common part of average Americans' lives. Paired with HSA-qualified health plans, they cover a growing number of Americans' health care costs. And the trends indicate that they'll become an even more important part of more people's health care in the future. This book is designed to help you understand HSAs and HSA-qualified health plans. When you enroll in these plans, you often receive a mass of literature about the health plan, outlining what services are covered, your cost-sharing, exclusions, rules to follow, and how to appeal a claim denial, among other topics. You probably received some information about the HSA itself from your trustee. It most likely came in the form of a glossy twelve-page brochure with pictures of smiling families and caring doctors, plus some very basic information about how to set up your account, how much you could contribute, and a partial list of expenses eligible for tax-free distribution. That level of information is simply inadequate for you to manage your HSA. If you rely on that information alone, you'll probably end up doing something inadvertently that runs afoul of HSA rules and regulations. Even if your HSA custodian is the rare one that provides adequate and easy-to-understand information in its printed materials and online to keep you in compliance, you'll never learn how to maximize the benefit of your HSA. HSA trustees simply do not provide this information. So where do you turn for complete information on remaining compliant with HSA rules and regulations and maximizing the short-term and long-term tax advantages of your HSA? Right here, with this book. HSA Owner's Manual is the most comprehensive guide to HSAs available anywhere. This book is the owner's manual that did not come with your HSA. If you follow the advice in this book, you'll keep your HSA in compliance with current HSA rules and regulations. You'll also learn about sources of updated information as the IRS releases new rules and interpretations and as the Department of Health and Human Services issues health care reform regulations that impact HSAs. Your HSA trustee may offer similar information, but probably not in an easy-to-understand format and certainly not in a single volume. In addition, this book delivers information that no HSA trustee offers-strategies to help you maximize your financial opportunity as an HSA accountholder. You'll learn how to integrate your HSA into your short-term tax savings and longterm asset building strategies. You'll receive information that will help you determine when you should use your HSA as a reimbursement account and when you'll benefit from utilizing it as a long-term financial asset. May your journey through the pages of this book reduce your confusion about your HSA and help you embrace it to unlock its hidden value for your long-term financial health.

In Retire Before Mom and Dad, you'll learn how to unlock the superpower inside of you that is capable of transforming almost any income into lasting financial freedom. And, you'll discover that it's not about scrimping and sacrificing to get there.