Insurance Blog Week in Review – Week of March 4 – 11, 2012

Each and every week, there can be anywhere between twelve and fourteen different blogs appearing on the Insurance Blog. Keeping up with the Insurance Blog is a good way to stay informed about insurance changes that can affect your family. Use the Week in Review is a quick way to “ketchup”! Examining a Potential Health Insurance Plan I am, once again, attempting to find an affordable health insurance policy. In this blog, I go over what some of the abbreviations, phrases, and numbers in the health plan I am looking at actually mean. The Insurance Podcast Roundup went up on … Continue reading

Playing Phone Tag With the Insurance Company

I recently began yet another attempt to find affordable health insurance. In a previous blog I wrote about the details that made a particular health plan look promising. Today, the insurer called. If you ever had any doubts about how inefficient health insurance is handled in this country, try going through the process of attempting to purchase an individual health insurance plan. It brings certain difficulties into sharp, clear, focus. The last time I had health insurance was when I was working as a teacher. My job came with employer sponsored health insurance. It wasn’t incredibly difficult to fill out … Continue reading

Examining a Potential Health Insurance Plan

I have once again begun the quest to find affordable health insurance. This time, I am seeking a health plan that will cover only me. My husband has Medicare Part A, and will have Part B soon. We have no children. I am taking a close look a policy that appears to be one I can afford. Earlier this week, I used HealthCare.gov to try and find an affordable health insurance plan. You can use that website to narrow down a whole bunch of health insurance plans, in order to find one that you can, (hopefully), afford. To be honest, … Continue reading