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The Associated Press : The Massachusetts Senate Tuesday approved a bill that would make wealthy hospitals pay $100 million in a one-time contribution to help small businesses ease insurance premiums. "The bill would let businesses with 50 or fewer workers form cooperatives to purchase insurance at a lower cost. Another provision presses insurers to spend at least 90 percent of premium dollars on care and 10 percent or less on administrative costs. Senate President Therese Murray said the bill, which passed on a 33-4 vote, will ease instability in the insurance market, smooth out annual fluctuations in premiums and require insurers offer affordable small business plans." Proponents say the money paid by wealthier hospitals could save 2.5 percent in premium costs for small businesses in health care costs. "Senate Minority Leader Richard Tisei, R-Wakefield, said the assessment amounts to a tax increase on hospitals. He said some bigger hospitals might be able to afford it, but smaller community

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Wall Street Journal article about buying a second home

Not a bad article in my opion.  Given the way our second home market has weathered this storm very well speaks well for the Lake of the Ozarks as an investment that you and your family can enjoy while building wealth.   One problem with the article is that the 5% for taxes and insurance every year is very high for our area - Missouri is a very low tax State.   This is his main basis for stating that real estate is a bad investment, and his 40 year national average appreciation rate of 6.4% is pretty light considering we are talking about second home markets.     

Would the stock market perform better the next decade?  Maybe, maybe not,  but how much fun can the family get out of owning Microsoft stock?   

Yes, you can take a swipe at real estate in general right now as an investment, especially with many markets such as Florida, Nevada and California taking big hits in value.   But the very slight dip in Lake real estate values bodes well for our future and for the sustainability of this market as one of the premier vacation and second home markets in the Midwest.    

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Is a Vacation Home Still a Good Investment? It can be. But before you make the move, it’s worth doing the some math to calculate your potential return. By BRETT ARENDS The real estate crash in certain parts of the country raises a question: Does it even make sense for most Americans to own a vacation home anymore?

The answers are going to vary, of course, from person to person.

But the slump in places like Florida and Arizona has badly knocked the idea that your long-term capital gains are going to offset the costs.

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