Consumer’s Health Insurance Blog

While the presidential candidates are talking blue-sky reforms, with all sorts of proposals, they may overlook the specific problems faced by real people in the U.S. today. In a comment on Response to Self Employed and Going It Alone, Steve makes two excellent points that we should all know about and make part of our […]

In today’s Phildelphia Inquirer, Jen A. Miller, a writer, tells all in describing how health insurance rates are affecting her life. Jen writes well, and appears to be intelligent. She hasn’t read my health insurance book yet, so I took a few minutes to send her some information about why her health insurance is so […]

To complement my last posting about Why Getting Your Health Insurance at Work Could be Dangerous, I thought it wise to also cover the dangers of getting health insurance on your own.
First of all, there are more scams and pitfalls when you are getting your health insurance on your own. You have many more options […]

Can you imagine that the most popular way of getting health insurance, through your employer, could be the most risky if you have a significant medical problem, such as ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease)?
Isn’t the whole point of having health insurance to financially protect you from the perils of ill health, just as automobile insurance protects […]