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The most affordable state in the country for retirement healthcare is not one most people would guess.

It is Utah.

According to WalletHub’s 2026 analysis of healthcare costs across all 50 states — measuring five essential healthcare expenses against median monthly household income — Utah ranked as the lowest-burden state in the nation. Healthcare costs...

Picture this: you woke up feeling under the weather, skipped the 45-minute drive to your doctor’s office, and did a perfectly fine video visit in your pajamas.

Then the bill arrived — and right there, tucked between the doctor’s professional fee and your co-pay, was a charge called a “facility fee.” For a facility you never visited. That’s not a billing error. It’s standard p...

When most people try to guess which state has the highest retirement healthcare costs, they land on California. Or New York. Or Florida.

The answer is Alaska. And the reason is not what most people expect.

According to WalletHub’s 2026 analysis of healthcare affordability across all 50 states — which measured the cost of five essential healthcare expenses against media...

Monday. July 13. 8:30 in the morning.

That is when the South Carolina Department of Insurance opens the next application window for the SC Safe Home Mitigation Grant Program — and if you own a home along the South Carolina coast, this is the kind of news worth setting an alarm for.

The grant provides up to $7,500 to help coastal homeowners make their homes

Here is a number worth sitting with.

After the 1994 Northridge earthquake, California separated earthquake coverage from standard homeowners insurance policies almost overnight. The risk was real, widely known, and had just killed dozens of people and caused $20 billion in damage.

Today — thirty years later — only about 10 to 13 percent of