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HealthCare.gov is an interesting new site that talks about health insurance options. It provides a lot information about the Affordable Care Act and the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan including state high-risk pools, and lets you pretty easily look at options in a specific state. Coach

We've had a few threads related to Google Voice, a free service that you can use to help manage voice communications. Availability has been limited, but now they have opened it to all. If you've been waiting for an invitation, your wait is over. Google Voice Coach

I order frequently from amazon.com and of course enjoy not paying Colorado sales tax. The party may be over -- I notice that shipping notices on my orders now contain a link that gets me the following: We are not obligated to, and do not, collect Colorado sales tax. Your purchase is subject...

I was offered the opportunity to take a survey when I logged in to the forum this morning. According to the survey, "Early-retirement.org is conducting research to better understand and meet the needs of its site users." Having taken the survey I suspect its real purpose is to help sell...

It's hard to believe the aughts have come and gone. I spent New Year's Eve of 1999 watching the computers I was responsible for at the time. Needless to say, nothing interesting happened. But I think that's the last time I made it to midnight on New Year's Eve :) Does anyone have a good Y2K...

The newest issue, February 2010, has an interesting, short article titled A happy retirement: 6 steps that work. Unfortunately I cannot find the article online. They had a couple of interesting results from a survey of retired subscribers. "Retired subscribers' satisfaction with their...

PBS here is re-running "Sick Around The World" on Frontline tonight. The show is hosted by T.R. Reid and looks at healthcare systems in several different countries. This first aired last year and I thought it was well done -- and I really enjoy T.R. Reid. You might want to check it out if you...

I'm attending my 40th high school reunion this weekend. This is very interesting. It's the first high school reunion I've gotten to. I just finished playing golf with seven guys I do not remember at all. Tonight it's the dinner/dance. My folks moved out of town after my first year of...

I finally succumbed and decided to get a colonoscopy. This is a screening colonoscopy -- I don't have issues. Just trying to be a good patient. I've got good health insurance. Screening colonoscopies are covered at 100%. But....if they find a polyp to remove, or something to biopsy, it...

There was a program on PBS this evening that I found very interesting -- The Ascent of Money. It was the first of four weekly installments. This first one covered the development of money, the development of companies, the invention of the idea of shared ownership via shares and the...

In a posting in FIRE and Money dixonge mentioned an article in The New Yorker about medical care costs. I had recently heard an interview with the author on NPR's Fresh Air that got me interested enough to read the article. The article makes an interesting health care cost comparision between...

I just tried to report a spam post, but when I clicked on the icon (that triangular one below the poster information) I was told I had insufficient rights. As I recall I've reported spam this way in the past. Coach

I found this article by Mark Hulbert in "Barron's" quite interesting. He looks for similiarities between now and the Great Depression, and finds some not-so-bad news. He writes, in part, "After examining several aspects of the stock market's behavior during the 1930s, it would appear as though...

I found this retirement survey done by Charles Schwab (and a couple of other organizations) very interesting. They surveyed various generations on retirement goals, financial plans, Social Security and other issues. It's interesting to see how the thinking changes from generation to...

Does anyone have interesting memories of Black Monday, October 19, 1987? The DJIA dropped over 20% that day -- about three times the drop we saw on Monday, September 29. I remember lots of doom and gloom, and lots of comparisons to 1929. I only had a few thousand dollars in retirement...

I just had my annual physical. My doctor has started doing The VAP Cholesterol Test, which adds several new measurements to standard cholesterol tests. By the standard measures my cholesterol is good -- all the numbers in the "desirable" range. But by this new test several of the new values...

There's what looks to be an interesting followup tonight to the "Carrier" shows on PBS. "Another Day in Paradise" is described as 'A companion film to the PBS "Carrier" miniseries, about life aboard the USS Nimitz, focuses on just a few of the aircraft carrer's 5,000-strong crew, including a...

I'm a few days late in posting this, but I do think this new feather in gmail is worth mentioning. Gmail Custom Time Coach

PBS is starting a three-part series tonight, titled "The Jewish Americans". From the web site it looks like it could be very interesting. Coach

Here's an interesting English vocabulary tester -- and it produces rice donations. I heard about it on NPR this morning. FreeRice Coach

From the United States Declaration of Independence: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights...

"The Boomer Century" is a two hour show on PBS tonight. Sponsored by Vanguard. Looks like it might be of interest to many of us. http://www.pbs.org/boomercentury/ Coach

I thought the group might enjoy this story. A management consultant, on holiday in an African fishing village, watched a little fishing boat dock. Noting the quality of the fish, the consultant asked the fisherman how long it had taken to catch them. "Not very long." answered the fisherman...

Hello to all. My introduction: I'm 54, single, childless, a software developer, and (I think) FI. My plan is to retire in 12 to 18 months when a large project I'm involved in will be (I think) under control. If I can last that long; work has lost much of its joy and I do sometimes think about...