"LTCI is dead," a financial planner told me recently.

"Really?" I asked. "Why would you think that?"

"Well, because no one can get approved, it's way too expensive, and I don't want my clients to be faced with rate increases. Now I sell hybrids to all of my clients. That way at least someone is guaranteed a benefit."

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