I had a Canadian medical docter taking a $100 000 overdraft from his bank and then he bought himself a beautiful home here in South Africa (Cape Town) The the exchange rate were 11 to 1.There is also great software around, for free, to play Forex fluctuations on currencies....but one need to know exactly what you're doing....also one of the things I'm considering doing.CheersFritz

How much do you have in your emergency fund?

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"I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their healthcare coverage—they like their plan and they value their relationship with their doctor," Obama told the American Medical Association.

Over time, the laws that allowed these individuals to dominate the government were repealed, and the result was the emergence of a new aristocracy which depended on the structure of society, rather than the law, to maintain its dominance.

However,per-claim expenditures for medical review and other controls will remainbelow the 1989 level after adjusting for inflation.• The Subcommittee noted that the government had no viablemechanism by which it could recoup overpayments.

From what I've heard I was lucky he left when he did as apparently it's a lot more difficult to get them out with medical problems.

We can agree to disagree on that, and that is what makes American great.When a person goes to Medical School, Nursing School or some other health care field, they plan on working in the PRIVATE SECTOR, not for some government agency.Health Care is just another service in the private sector for people to chose to buy or not.

I would add another factor that I see upcomming in the near future to the potential recovery woes.As those older frogs are getting ready to leap to that lilly pad, in order to get the needed medical help to live a little longer, they are often required to sell most, if not all, of what they have to qualify (currently) for a lot of the needed assistance of the older years.This will inturn mean that as the housing industry is ready to begin a decent recovery in a few years that there may be a flood of homes owned by those older frogs begin to hit the market, keeping the prices from recovering as some think they will when the banking forclosures are finally absorbed as these may begin to hit the market at that time.As Rich said, it is still a time to BUY, BUY, BUY, but at a discount and may remain that way for a while as the baby boomers houses hit the market preventing the great predicted recovery as a lot of these were financed with the proceeds of 401's and IRA's.

In my area, I see liens due to things like sewer, trash, water, gas (in Phila PGW can lien for unpaid gas), IRS, state income tax, judgments (mechanic liens, child support, medical bills, etc), and then some.