{"id":1770,"date":"2016-04-19T11:07:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T05:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.policyadvisor.in\/insurance-india?p=1770"},"modified":"2016-08-30T11:02:04","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T05:32:04","slug":"how-to-use-health-insurance-to-save-on-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/policyadvisor.in\/insurance-india\/how-to-use-health-insurance-to-save-on-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"How to use Health Insurance to save on taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One method the government uses to encourage Indians to save and invest a portion of their incomes is by providing tax benefits to the investor. In this light, health insurance is viewed as a peculiar investment where the objective is not the ordinary building of a financial corpus but to protect your other investments from quick degradation occasioned by the need to meet medical expenses from our pockets, that is from our savings and by liquidizing our assets. 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