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The importance of a health care power of attorney

By Mike Switzer

Published May 28, 2024 at 6:30 AM EDT

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Abby Mason, certified financial planner with Abacus Planning Group in Columbia, S.C.

People who don't go to the doctor much because they’re in good health and have been for most of their lives may think they don't need a health care power of attorney. But our next guest says that is, indeed, not the case. Mike Switzer interviews Abby Mason, a certified financial planner with Abacus Planning Group in Columbia, SC.

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Mike Switzer

After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.

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