Health Insurance Plans
Health insurance should be a given for every citizen - Jesse Ventura
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HMO, PPO, EPO: How’s A Consumer To Know What Health Plan Is Best?
What’s in a name? When it comes to health plans sold on the individual market, these days it’s often less than people think. The lines that distinguish HMOs, PPOs, EPOs and POS plans from one another have blurred, making it hard to know what you’re buying by name alone–assuming you’re one of the few people who know what an EPO is in the first place.
Articles of Interest
How Trump gave insurance companies free rein to sell bad health plans
How short-term insurance fails consumers... The financial incentives and misleading marketing are a dangerous combination, even as hundreds of thousands of people — if not more — are expected to sign up for these plans in the coming years.
Why People Are Still Avoiding the Doctor (It’s Not the Virus)
At first, people delayed medical care for fear of catching Covid. But as the pandemic caused staggering unemployment, medical care has become unaffordable for many.
Resources
24 Health Insurance Terms Explained in Plain English
Learn what premiums, deductibles, copays are and how they work together.
ObamaCare Facts
The ObamaCare Health Insurance Exchange Marketplace opened Oct 1st, 2013. The ObamaCare health insurance exchanges, or ObamaCare exchanges, are online marketplaces for health insurance. Americans can use their State's "Affordable" Insurance Exchange (also known as a marketplace) to obtain coverage from competing private health care providers.
Fair Health
Get essential information on costs for thousands of procedures and learn insurance basics.
Medicare Rights
Medicare Rights is here to help consumers and professionals understand and navigate Medicare. Our clear, unbiased resources are trusted by millions to provide important Medicare answers.
