Health Insurance

Are You Wondering If Health Insurance Would Have Helped?

The best thing in America is free health care. Health insurance is an option that could provide you this. Given the way health care costs have risen; many families have gone bankrupt paying the bills for a sick person in the family. Some are fortunate to have medical insurance cover either by the employer or have cover by
parents or relatives medical insurance policies others are not so fortunate.

Well what do you want to choose; a health insurance policy that sounds like a bad investment or paying all of the bills yourself. A quick look at a health insurance policy seems like an unaffordable luxury unless some one land up sick and you have to foot all the bills. Medical bills can go way beyond the monthly premiums you pay. Looking at the big picture and planning with that in mind is not a bad investment. If you were to be injured in a car accident, insurance can come quite handy
for the bills and even for the dent in the savings you face when you have to take leave.

Thinking that doctor’s bills are measly when compared to the premium will take you no where. Being prepared for the large expenditure means; taking the right health insurance policy.

* A low copay or deductible would result in higher premiums. This would also mean that your insurance pays every time the bill exceeds the copay amount.
* A higher copay or deductible would result in lower premiums. Just look at the maximum amount you would have to pay. If that is ok then this policy is and ideal choice and would mean that unless the bill is large the insurance would be paying for it.

If you have very little money then get an affordable plan so that you would have to pay little money for the coverage. You would have to pay for your routine visits to the doctor. This is a lot easier than having to bear a hefty bill of the medical care costs. The plus points of going for regular routine check ups will avoid you going for a sudden expensive treatment. You are regularly examined and thus you can avert any major health happening and stay fit and healthy.

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*Are there other options?*

If you are savvy enough with your money you could save money and get tax deductions. Health savings account or HAS allows you to put back monthly a small amount into a dedicated bank account for health services. To avail this plan you must be covered by a High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP). The money you save on the premiums (in case you take another plan) could be put into the health saving account (tax free) and you
could also get the High Deductible health plan as insurance against unforeseen eventualities. This money saved is thus combined with an insurance plan to maximize benefits.

Travel insurance and Group Health Insurance are options that you can choose because this is the most likely scenarios when accidents happen. When you travel or when a group is going on vacation or camps. This is in case your cover by medical insurance is too less.

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Vietnam’s stock market will lure millions of USD

Germany’s World newspaper has published an article praising Vietnam’s achievements, commenting that Vietnam’s stock market will attract millions of US dollars after Vietnam has become a member of the World Trade Organization.

According to the article, the double increase of Vietnam’s economic growth in the past nine years and the eight percent growth rate per year in the recent years has made investors consider Vietnam a “promising” market in Asia.

Becoming the member of the WTO and successfully organizing the 14th APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting, Vietnam’s stock market will spectacularly develop and attract millions of US dollars from global investors.

At the end of last week, the VN-Index in Ho Chi Minh City hit a record high, at 665.5 points, increasing by 116%, in comparison with the beginning of this year.

The article also stressed the developing trade relations between Vietnam and the US and said that Vietnam was of interest to high-tech corporation Intel.

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Multiple Listing Service-Advertising Space or Industry Tool?

The answer to the question really depends on your location. If the question was asked in the USA, I think 99% of realtors would respond ‘industry tool’. Ask the question in Europe and the answer would be reversed with 99% of estate agents referring to MLS as digital advertising.
So what makes this technology be seen by the same industry, in two large geographical markets, in two totally different ways?
The answer I like to call the 4P’s.

PRODUCT, PROFESSIONALISM, PRACTICE, & PERCEPTION

1. PRODUCT

What is MLS?

A Multiple Listing Service in real estate terms can mean two things. One form refers to the type of agency agreement entered into between a realtor and vendor. Whilst this governs the documentation for entry into the MLS database (USA), it is the database itself that most people think of when the MLS is mentioned.
MLS, (in the US) is simply a database of property for sale in the marketplace.
In economic terms, it attempts to create the perfect market, bringing all buyers and all sellers of property together in one place.
In the US market, putting aside FSBO, (For sale by Owner) and the small number of private transactions, the MLS has effectively achieved this ‘perfect market’ status.

In Europe, however, MLS is something completely different. So different in fact that it cannot really be defined as MLS. Instead I am going to call it ALS or Advertising Listing Service.
ALS differs from MLS at a fundamental level because it fails in the primary objective of an MLS to create a perfect market. ALS provides only half of the solution in that, at its most successful, it can only bring all the sellers in the market place together in one place. In reality of course, a proliferation of ALS providers, (advertising companies) means that any one provider fails in even being able to achieve this goal.
ALS therefore reverts to the rules of advertising. It is limited by the marketing success of the provider to gain exposure to as large a portion of the market as possible. The cost of exposure is then duly passed onto the advertiser, the estate agent. The increased costs of competition for exposure, in turn limits the number of sellers, further limiting the success of any one provider to create an effective market.

The benefits of MLS as an ‘almost’ perfect market are; reduced cost and quicker a transaction timeframe. Governed by the most basic of the laws of supply and demand, buyers and sellers are able to find each other more quickly and as an effective monopoly, the MLS does not have to compete for its place in the market thus reducing the cost of providing the service. In the US part of the cost to the realtor can therefore be used to regulate the profession.

PROFESSIONALISM, PERCEPTION & PRACTICE

Here the two market differ greatly. In the US, all real estate agents are required to be licenced. In obtaining the licence they have to prove by way of examination that they are proficient in the General Principles of Real Estate and have a working knowledge of current legislation affecting the industry.
Within a framework of regulation comes trust. Trust in the profession by the public. Trust between professionals within the industry to be able to co-operate with each other.
The regulation of the industry in the US helps to define one aspect of practice that fails in the markets across Europe.

Who is the Agent acting for?

In the US this is defined by the type agency contract entered into and further defined by regulations governing Dual Agency, (acting for both buyer and seller). The notification rules for this ‘Conflict of interest’ are clearly set out and require all parties to agree in writing before proceeding.(rules differ from state to state). The role of the agent is therefore defined and all parties to the transaction are under no illusions of who is acting for who.

Across Europe regulation is virtually non-existent. Looking after the interests of the parties involved tends to fall on the solicitor,(attorney) as the only regulated ‘professional’ involved in the transaction.

The ambiguity of the client/agent relationship only enhances the lack of trust in the professional relationship which may, for the most part be conducted in good faith, but which ultimately is left open for abuse.
In the end the agent/client relationship is reduced to that of salesperson/shopper, belittling the vast majority of agents, who practice their profession in an exemplary manner.

Conclusions

The US market is a model to be followed. Needed regulation is not overbearing and allows the MLS to facilitate efficiency within the industry, which when all is said and done, means that sellers of property, sell quicker. Buyers find what they are looking for quicker, and Agents facilitate more sales.

In Europe, changes are afoot. If individual countries within the European Union fail to regulate at a National level under increasing pressure from the public, then the EU now has the power to legislate. Until recently this was not possible, but with the harmonization of contract law across the E.U., the path to EU-wide Agency Law Directives from Brussels are now a possibility.
Bad property law is already being challenged at E.U. level with the Spanish LRAU ‘Land Grab Law’ being challenged in the European Court of Human Rights under the ‘Right to property ‘ Protocol of Article 1 of The European Convention of Human Rights.

Frameworks for developing trust in a professional environment are being put into place. AMLA, The Association of Multiple Listing Agents recently launched a fully fledged MLS for the Spanish Property Market offering a commitment to standards and education alongside a MLS system at a fraction of the ALS providers.

The market in Europe is changing, to the benefit of all. The pace of change will be set, not by the industry and government, but by the consumers who are demanding in greater numbers, their desire to be represented properly in one of the biggest purchases of their lives. The US model whilst not perfect, is a good place to start.

Offshore Banking & Asset Protection

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We are a law firm which means you have attorney client privilege – We specialize in Offshore Asset Protection. All of your affairs handled with us are covered by attorney client privilege which means that we could not reveal anything about you or your affairs without your specific permission or unless we were ordered to do so by a Panama Court (not a common occurrence). You can benefit from the legal protection and security of dealing with a licensed Panama Law Firm. If you buy an offshore corporation, offshore trust, offshore foundation or an offshore bank account from a non- law firm they could freely reveal your confidential information which they collect from you like name address, passport, name of corporation, bank account information etc. without any statutory penalties, in other words you do not have the benefit of attorney client privilege. Some of these corporate resale agents say they have some sort of financial privacy protections but it is flimsy and cursory at best.

Panama Banking – Panama boasts of having 150 international banks which is a living testimony to their strong bank secrecy laws please keeping in mind Panama is a country of 2.9 million people and these banks are in Panama City which is only about 9 square miles. All the banks we deal with have online banking including the ability to send international wire transfers. You do not need to come to Panama to open a bank account but you do need to supply reference letters and passport copies. You can even get up to 7% interest on 5 year deposits. The national currency in Panama is the US dollar but some euro accounts are available.

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Panama Private Interest Foundations – A Panama foundation has a number of advantages. It is like a combination of a corporation trust and will. Foundations have no real owner. The Panama foundation is anonymous. The foundation instructions are kept secret. Foundation assets including bank accounts are generally non-freezable. Foundations can own corporations and real estate.

Panama stock Brokerage – You and or your corporation or foundation can have a Panama Stock brokerage account and play the worlds markets from home. Panama secrecy laws apply.

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