
Originally Posted by
makie
Great points there.
Kaiser's 10% annually doesn't really look so lucrative for me in line with my parents age. After 5 years, their health care will be relying on Kaiser's annual compounding of interest which I think is less compared to other investments (example in mutual funds). So assuming they didn't use Kaiser for 15 years, they could opt for a lump sum of more than P500,000 but if I invest P1000 a month (mutual funds) for about 20% annually for 15 years, I could have nearly P1.2 million for their health care/retirement.
Kaiser is the only long term health care that I know right now and what concerns me is that the medical benefits is only good for the first 5 years.
What I actually did was, in order to cover them better, they both got Kaiser plans and at the same time, I invested in mutual funds for their retirement. In that way, they are double covered.