Consumer’s Health Insurance Blog

This week Get a Good Deal on Your Health Insurance Without Getting Ripped-Off broke onto the Amazon Bestseller Chart at #25 in Health Insurance when I checked yesterday, and then at #18 today!
Additionally, the book has broken into the top 100,000 books on Amazon, moving up, and at #97,779 this afternoon.
We continue to spread the [...]

I discovered today the Cavalcade of Risk via the Health Business Blog. There are a few articles that you should read about buying health insurance:
I am glad to see some math that shows the best choice in the article “High Deductible Health Insurance vs. Traditional Plan“. I found from my pharmacy that they give a [...]

Thanks to Brad and Britt at WZTK FM Talk 101.1 for bringing me on to their morning show. We had a great time, and these guys are super radio professionals. I had not been on the radio before, and they led me through the process of talking about how to buy health insurance on the [...]

Thoughts about whether the U.S. can emulate the Swiss for health insurance, specifically about where Massachusetts is heading with current policy.

I think that there is a lot of confusion and misinformation about the process of buying health insurance. One common thought is that you are buying it on an annual basis, and need to wait until the end of the year or the “open season” to make changes. While that is true within employer group [...]

So it makes sense to want everyone to buy health insurance. But if you’re healthy and have the choice of paying a $219 penalty for a whole year versus at least that much each month for health insurance that you never use, which are you going to choose? I put the health insurance high on my list of priorities, and have always paid for and had coverage. But at the same time, I’ve spent an awful lot on premiums, with very little in claims. What would you do?

I was at the local chamber of commerce today, and heard from a fellow about a colleague that wanted to shop for an MRI. He couldn’t nail down the cost, to even an approximate amount, when calling around to physicians and facilities that provide this service. If we are going to have consumer driven healthcare, [...]