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How much do you pay for your auto insurance? If you are reading this, the answer is most likely “too much!” You are looking for information that will help you save your hard-earned dollars, and you have found it. Ten Questions has been completely updated, revised, and expanded for 2012. It has also been reformatted for the Kindle at last, and the most effective way to use the guide is to own both the ebook and paperback versions. Ten Questions is not a book for "dummies," but it is an easy to use, half-hour read, specifically designed to help save you money. It is a comprehensive and detailed explanation of the underwriting process involved in determining the amount of premium you pay. The facts and clear examples included in the guide are based on my years of experience as a top-rated Sales Agent, and the thousands of auto insurance policies I personally have sold. Chapter One, “Risk” will help you understand what factors are used to determine your rating “tier,” and how to improve them. The amount of premium you pay is determined by the amount of “risk” you are seen to represent. Much of that determination is made through your answers to a series of questions you will be asked, either online, or in person by an agent. These are the “Ten Questions” referred to in the title. Chapter Two, “Discounts” contains a detailed description of nearly every available auto insurance discount, and how to obtain them. A single 5% discount that you have been missing each policy term is costing you far more than this guide will. You will also gain the knowledge that you will need to progressively lower your rates over time. Chapter Three, “Coverages” is a comprehensive explanation of nearly every available auto insurance coverage, including what each one does, (and does not do) for you, and how to the determine the proper balance of cost versus benefit when choosing them. When you finish reading it, you will know more about auto insurance than most agents do. Ten Questions isn't about getting the cheapest policy at the cheapest price: It's about getting the best policy at the best price. Chapter Four, “Sample Quote Process,” is your ultimate weapon in getting your new policy, because it details an actual phone quote in real time, along with the “correct” answers to the “Ten Questions.” Knowledge is power, and this guide is a very powerful tool that you will be able to use as long as you are driving and insuring vehicles. Advanced Topics is new for 2012,and this section includes “Youthful Driver Strategies,” and “State Specific Information,” such as a layman's explanation of so-called “No-Fault” coverages, and “Full,” versus “Limited” Tort. The Appendix contains all the technical terms that are used in the guide, to help you understand the "trade talk" in the auto insurance industry. This guide will save you money in several ways, including: It will help you find and qualify for discounts. It will show you how to improve your rating tier, and lower your “base rate.” It will help you allocate your premium dollars more effectively, so that you get the best coverage at the best price. Find out what the insurance companies don't want you to know, like the fact that you can switch carriers any time you want, as often as you want. You do not have to wait until your current policy renews in order to do so. Learn the answers to the Ten Questions today, and get a better policy for less money, tomorrow.
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “One of the most important books I’ve ever read—an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.” – Bill Gates “Hans Rosling tells the story of ‘the secret silent miracle of human progress’ as only he can. But Factfulness does much more than that. It also explains why progress is so often secret and silent and teaches readers how to see it clearly.” —Melinda Gates "Factfulness by Hans Rosling, an outstanding international public health expert, is a hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases." - Former U.S. President Barack Obama Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends—what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing; how many girls finish school—we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers. In Factfulness, Professor of International Health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens. They reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspective—from our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of us and them) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse). Our problem is that we don’t know what we don’t know, and even our guesses are informed by unconscious and predictable biases. It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. That doesn’t mean there aren’t real concerns. But when we worry about everything all the time instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most. Inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world and empower you to respond to the crises and opportunities of the future. --- “This book is my last battle in my life-long mission to fight devastating ignorance...Previously I armed myself with huge data sets, eye-opening software, an energetic learning style and a Swedish bayonet for sword-swallowing. It wasn’t enough. But I hope this book will be.” Hans Rosling, February 2017.
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The preeminent doctor and bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel is repeatedly asked one question: Which country has the best healthcare? He set off to find an answer. The US spends more than any other nation, nearly $4 trillion, on healthcare. Yet, for all that expense, the US is not ranked #1 -- not even close. In Which Country Has the World's Best Healthcare? Ezekiel Emanuel profiles eleven of the world's healthcare systems in pursuit of the best or at least where excellence can be found. Using a unique comparative structure, the book allows healthcare professionals, patients, and policymakers alike to know which systems perform well, and why, and which face endemic problems. From Taiwan to Germany, Australia to Switzerland, the most inventive healthcare providers tackle a global set of challenges -- in pursuit of the best healthcare in the world.