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MN Legislative Session 2025: Key Health Policy Updates

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

Key health policy updates from March 3, 2025: MAFP lobbyist Megan Verdeja shares the latest legislative news on health care-related bills impacting family physicians and health care access. This bill passed unanimously on a voice vote and will be heard next in the Human Services Committee. Read the bill summary for HF 981.

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Be The Market: How Doctors Should Invest Their Money

The Motivated MD

So, with this chapter, I hope to briefly touch on the basics of market investing and describe why simple diversification and index fund investing are the most effective ways for busy clinical physicians and healthcare providers to invest with the expectation of long-term gains. You are already a hardworking professional.

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Choosing to Rent or Buy a Home in 2025

The Motivated MD

Using the same parameters in the previous example, with an interest rate of 6.5%, but this time the family puts 30% down instead of 20%, the estimated mortgage cost is roughly $5,973.55. Use the rules provided above to determine what is right for you.

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